All about “ZENITY” in Linux

Dharmika D
3 min readSep 24, 2021

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Hello everyone!! Welcome back to my blog. Today’s topic of discussion is about the command “Zenity”. So let’s go…

Firstly speaking about zenity command..

Zenity is a program that will display GTK+ dialogs and return users input on standard output. This command allows use to present information, ask for the information from user and many other options. This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax with long options starting with two dashes -> “- -<options>”

I have mentioned few of the interesting options that are supported by this command.

Here it goes…

Selecting a color from colour paddle

for authentication

for acknowledgement to further step

To take an entry in the from of text from users

to display information regarding any updates in system

To display any progress of a program

If we are performing any task and we get some pop-ups warning us about the action that is noticed. To display these kind of pop-ups also , zenity is used.

zenity also provides an option for selecting a file

output for the file selection command

to display calendar of any year

There are many other options too for different usage.

Links that can be referred :

Hope you found my blog informative. Thank you!😊

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