Text Entry Dialog

Use the --entry option. Text Entry Dialog

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

The text entry dialog supports the following options:

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

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

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

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

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 Dialog Example Zenity text entry dialog example