ZENITY Software

Aniket Ingle
2 min readSep 29, 2021

In this blog, we are going to learn about the zenity software in Linux.

Whats Zenity?

Zenity is free software and a cross-platform program that allows the execution of GTK dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts.With zenity, we can create GUI dialog boxes with simplicity and not going into too many complex things. It has few features but is simpler than more complex GUI creation tools.

Installation of Zenity.

To install zenity in RedHat Linux

# yum install zenity

Various Options in Zenity.

  1. zenity — calender

2. zenity — calender — date-format=%m%d%y

3. zenity — entry — text=”Enter your name” — entry-text=”<your text>”

4. zenity — entry — text=”Enter the password” — hide-text

5. zenity — progress — text=”<your text>” — percentage=<INT>

6. zenity — warning

7. zenity — color-selection

8. zenity — color-selection — show-pallette

These are some options in zenity, like these there are many more options.

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