Zenity-2.6.2

Introduction to Zenity

Zenity is a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from the commandline and shell scripts.

Package information

Installation of Zenity

Install Zenity by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch puts ScrollKeeper files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

Contents

The Zenity package contains gdialog and zenity.

Description

gdialog

gdialog is a wrapper script which can be used with legacy scripts.

zenity

zenity is a program that will display GTK+ dialogs, and return the users input.