Shell Script with Zenity

Question

Using Zenity is possible to add buttons,change fonts ,anything besides default options? If not,there's another dialog for sh that allows more customizing?

Answer 1

You can probably change the style with the ~/.gtkrc file, but that can be painful. You might want to just move on up to writing real GUI programs with Gtk2-Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Gtk2;

Gtk2->init;

my $window = Gtk2::Window->new;
my $vbox   = Gtk2::VBox->new;
my $label  = Gtk2::Label->new("Hello World");
my $button = Gtk2::Button->new("Press me");

$window->add($vbox);
$vbox->add($label);
$vbox->add($button);

$window->set_default_size(200, 200);
$window->signal_connect(
    destroy => sub {
        Gtk2->main_quit;
    }
);

my $i = 0;
$button->signal_connect(
    clicked => sub {
        $label->set_text("button pressed " . ++$i . " times");
    }
);

$window->show_all;

Gtk2->main;

Answer 2

Zenity supports a few HTML-like tags for text markup: <b>, <i>, <u>, <s>, <tt>, <big>, <small>, and more -- well, really it's Gtk+ that supports those tags, but Zenity gets to piggyback on top of those features.

For more control over your dialogs, you can intead use Kommander. It's like a form builder compatible with all sorts of scripting languages: Python, Perl, Ruby, shell. There's various examples out there.