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Zenity is free software and a cross-platform program that allows the execution of GTK+ dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts.

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Flow Control and Return Values in a BashScript

I'm quite new to bash scripting and i've been working on a small bash file that can do a few things for me. First of all, i'm calling this from a C function using system() and i'd like the script to return a value (1 for error, 0 for OK). Is this…
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How do I mark only one selection as TRUE in a dynamic zenity radiolist?

This is the code I have at the moment - it finds all files that have the file extension .sv and lists them in a zenity radiolist, however, none of the items are selected. Of course, if I change awk '{print "FALSE\n"$0}' to awk '{print "TRUE\n"$0}'…
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Zenity not working in python script with crontab

I have a python script in which I have used Zenity to display some notification. The code snippet is as follows: if message_list: pretty_print(message_list) os.system("/usr/bin/zenity --notification --text='You have unread messages'") When…
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How can I store edited text file using bash?

This is my code: Edit_Record() { zenity --width=600 --height=300 --text-info --title="Records" --filename=$FILE --editable if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then kdialog --title "Saving the Data" --warningyesnocancel "Do you want to save the…
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Searching text string in file & replacing it

There is a file in my home directory named conkyrc now this controls my whole of conky setup & there is a nice internet speed meter on my desktop but the problem is that my OS is on a portable drive that is connected to various different places…
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CocoaDialog text box displaying first line

I'm trying to add the output of a script to a CocoaDialog textbox - problem is - it's only printing the first line.... For example - Please see below: $ cat TEST.txt i am legend $ /Applications/CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog textbox…
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when linux system calls scripts some commands don't work ( cron / if-up.d )

Hi I'm trying to run a script that calls xclip in order to have a string ready to paste when i connect to the internet. I have a script /etc/network/if-up.d/script that does execute when connecting (i make him post a date in a file succesfuly ) but…
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Zenity entry and sudo -S not working properly without shell

I have problem with zenity entry and sudo -S. I am doing something like this: zenity --entry --title 'title' --text 'text' --hide-text | sudo -S pm-suspend If I run this in shell, it's working. But I put it into file and I am launching this script…
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zenity throws glibc error

I have been trying use zenity with standard re-direction in a shell script, something like for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo $i; done | zenity --list --column ="Number" But on the command line this works , but throws the following…
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Shell script statements not running one after one

I wrote a shell script that calls some other shell scripts in a new terminal window. It was working fine on my computer. its like this #!/bin/sh gnome-terminal -e "sh one.sh" zenity --info --text "exed one" gnome-terminal -e "sh 2.sh" zenity --info…
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Lua script how to invoke/call zenity or notify-send?

I'm a beginner in lua OS: Manjaro XFCE If I run from terminal desktop notification with notify-send or zenity it works. for instance: notify-send -t 4000 'Displays for 4 secs' "understood!!" However, I can make it work from a lua…
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How to close zenity window by press on Cancel button?

I have until loop and I can't get it how to break the loop when I click Cancel button? My until loop looks like this: until [[ "$VAR" == "End" && **** ]]; do ... The problem is if I want to close the window I have to click…
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How do I make ```zenity --password``` input into a variable?

How do I make zenity --password input into a variable? I'm using zenity --password to get input from the user and I'm trying to save it as a variable. Here are some commands I've tried: var=${zenity --password}; zenity var=--password var=zenity…
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how to reuse a zenity dialog?

Is possible to reuse a zenity dialog? A list for example. Assign it to a variable it gets the value of the selected item. So when use the variable I just get the selected item' s value.
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How to use command "at" in shell to call zenity in ubuntu

I am trying to write a shell script to remind an user. I want to show dialog at a specific time. I use zenity to show the dialog message Here is my script #!bin/bash PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin export…
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