Text Entry Dialogue

Use the --entry option. Text Entry Dialogue

Use the --entry option to create a text entry dialog. Zenity returns the contents of the text entry to standard output.

The text entry dialogue supports the following options:

Specifies the text that is displayed in the text entry dialogue.

<cmd>--entry-text</cmd>=<var>text</var>

Specifies the text that is displayed in the entry field of the text entry dialogue.

Hides the text in the entry field of the text entry dialogue.

The following example script shows how to create a text entry dialog:


#!/bin/sh

if zenity --entry \
--title="Add new profile" \
--text="Enter name of new profile:" \
--entry-text "NewProfile"
  then echo $?
  else echo "No name entered"
fi

Text Entry Dialogue Example Zenity text entry dialog example