Making a dialog box pop-up showing arbitrary text

[randysparks]

Please be gentle with me because I'm not a programmer (beyond simple shell scripts). :(

Is there any shell command that causes a GTK+ dialog box pop-up showing some text and an OK button? There doesn't have to be anything happen when OK is clicked. It's literally an alert dialog.

[smartbei]

Check Zenity out: http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/265/a-complete-zenity-dialog-examples-2/

[randysparks]

Check Zenity out: http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/265/a-complete-zenity-dialog-examples-2/

Just what I was looking for! Thanks.

Do you know if there's any other way of making a Zenity dialog box take input from a file, other than using the --text-info style of dialog box?

[Yuzem]

Some examples:

cat 'somefile' | zenity --text-info


cat 'somefile' | zenity --list --column ""


zenity --info --text "$(cat 'somefile')"

[randysparks]

Some examples:

cat 'somefile' | zenity --text-info


cat 'somefile' | zenity --list --column ""


zenity --info --text "$(cat 'somefile')"

Thanks but it should be pointed out that some of the dialog box types don't take piped input in this way. Perhaps the most useful, --info, won't.

But the third example is just what I'm looking for.