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Sudhanshu tiwari
Sudhanshu tiwari

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Zenity And How to use it ❓

#linux #bash #code #cli

Zenity is simple yet useful tool in Linux by which we can make pop on-screen using various commands .

You can read the zenity manual by using

man zenity
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the command in the terminal your screen will look something like the below picture !

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We have to use the below syntax to use the zenity commands ! 

zenity --[Command]
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How to pop out something on-screen using Zenity ?🤔

We can do this using

zenity --info --text=<text>
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What if we want to change the title of the pop-out ?😁

Now ,we will use the title command

zenity --info --title=<title_text>
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How to take input ?

By using the

zenity --entry
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Let's add title and info text to the pop out !

we are gonna use the --entry,--title, and --text command to do this

zenity --title="Title" \
--entry --text="Text is changed !"
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With the help of the zenity we can create notifications we can use various commands to create beautiful popouts,notification we can change the colour of text and etc .

More useful commands from the

zenity --help
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To know more about zenity just explore the zenity : )

zenity --info --text="Hope you like my work : )"

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