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zenity (lower-case z) / formerly gdialog - have graphical GTK+ dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts.  Zenity adds graphical interfaces to shell scripts with a single command.  Zenity is an open source and a cross-platform application 

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=== sample scripts ===

Basic example
 #!/bin/bash 
 first=$(zenity --title="Your's First Name" --text "What is your first name?" --entry) 
 zenity --info --title="Welcome" --text="Mr./Ms. $first" 
 last=$(zenity --title="Your's Last Name" --text "$first what is your last name?" --entry) 
 zenity --info --title="Nice Meeting You" --text="Mr./Ms. $first $last"

Functional dialog for media player
 #!/bin/bash 
 <nowiki>#zenity --list --title "Video Type?" --column="FPS" NTSC PAL</nowiki>
 <nowiki></nowiki>
 <nowiki>strPlayer="$1"</nowiki>
 <nowiki>strPlayer=${strPlayer/"myth://user@192.168.254.88:6000"/"/mnt/mythtv/videos"}</nowiki>
 <nowiki>echo $strPlayer >> /tmp/altplayer.log</nowiki>
 <nowiki></nowiki>
 <nowiki></nowiki>
 <nowiki>varName1=$(zenity --list --title "$strPlayer" --column="FPS" NTSC PAL);</nowiki>
 <nowiki>varName2=$(echo $varName1 | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g')</nowiki>
 <nowiki></nowiki>
 <nowiki>#zenity --error</nowiki>
 <nowiki></nowiki>
 <nowiki>#zenity --info --text="You selected $varName2";</nowiki>
 <nowiki></nowiki>
 <nowiki>case "${varName2}" in</nowiki>
 <nowiki>        NTSC )</nowiki>
 <nowiki>                zenity --info --text="Play standard NTSC video"</nowiki>
 <nowiki>                vlc -f "$strPlayer" --no-embedded-video --no-sub-autodetect-file vlc://quit</nowiki>
 <nowiki>                ;;</nowiki>
 <nowiki>        PAL )</nowiki>
 <nowiki>                zenity --info --text="Play at 96 percent for PAL"</nowiki>
 <nowiki>                vlc -f "$strPlayer" --no-audio-time-stretch --rate=0.96 --no-embedded-video --no-sub-autodetect-file vlc://quit</nowiki>
 <nowiki>                ;;</nowiki>
 <nowiki>        * )</nowiki>
 <nowiki>                zenity --error</nowiki>
 <nowiki>                ;;</nowiki>
 <nowiki>esac</nowiki>
 <nowiki></nowiki>
 <nowiki>exit 0</nowiki>

prompt user from remote shell on remote desktop
 <nowiki>zenity --info --text "stop playing video games and do your homework" --display=:0</nowiki>



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