zenity dialog window with two buttons but no text entry

Question

I would like to create a zenity dialog window with two buttons as only user input.

The following creates a window with two buttons but with a space for a text entry

zenity --entry --title="" --text "Choose A or B" --ok-label="B" --cancel-label="A"

The following creates a window with one button only

zenity --info --title="" --text "Choose A or B" --ok-label="B"

What if you put `--text ""` in first method? – anishsane Jun 23 '16 at 16:50 — anishsane, Jun 23 '16 at 16:50

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '18 at 06:46

At least recent versions of zenity have an --extra-button flag.

Combining the value of the exit code and the content of stdout, the code can figure out what the user did.

For example:

while true; do
  ans=$(zenity --info --title 'Choose!' \
      --text 'Choose A or B or C' \
      --ok-label A \
      --extra-button B --extra-button C \
      --timeout 3)
  rc=$?
  echo "${rc}-${ans}"
done

Results would look like this:

# timeout
5-
# ESC key
1-
# A button
0-
# B button
1-B
# C button
1-C

Note that the above works similarly other dialogs, though certain combinations may be surprising. Be sure to experiment and handle all sorts of different user interactions.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '16 at 18:43

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--question is what you are looking for:

zenity --question \
--title="" \
--text "Choose A or B" \
--ok-label="B" \
--cancel-label="A"

answered Jun 23 '16 at 18:43

tmt

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Thank you +1. Follow-up question: Do you know if one can add further buttons? – Remi.b Jun 24 '16 at 09:07
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Probably not or at least I'm not aware of this being possible. – tmt Jun 24 '16 at 09:59

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 24 '17 at 19:49

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you can also use --info

zenity --info \
--title="A or B" \
--text "Choose A or B" \
--ok-label="B" \
--cancel-label="A"

edited Mar 24 '17 at 19:49

Matthew Verstraete

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answered Mar 24 '17 at 14:42

dharmi_kid

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Using zenity 3.18.1.1 (Ubuntu 16.04) I get "--cancel-label is not supported for this dialog". – kainjow Aug 04 '17 at 18:34

zenity dialog window with two buttons but no text entry

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