Examples

Introduction

Here is set of examples demonstrate how to use yad in shell scripts.

Logout dialog

Show logout dialog.

Additional software:

• wmctrl (http://tripie.sweb.cz/utils/wmctrl/)

code:

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#! /bin/bash action=$(yad --width 300 --entry --title "System Logout" \ --image=gnome-shutdown \ --button="Switch User:2" \ --button="gtk-ok:0" --button="gtk-close:1" \ --text "Choose action:" \ --entry-text \ "Power Off" "Reboot" "Suspend" "Logout") ret=$? [[ $ret -eq 1 ]] && exit 0 if [[ $ret -eq 2 ]]; then gdmflexiserver --startnew & exit 0 fi case $action in Power*) cmd="sudo /sbin/poweroff" ;; Reboot*) cmd="sudo /sbin/reboot" ;; Suspend*) cmd="sudo /bin/sh -c 'echo disk > /sys/power/state'" ;; Logout*) case $(wmctrl -m | grep Name) in *Openbox) cmd="openbox --exit" ;; *FVWM) cmd="FvwmCommand Quit" ;; *Metacity) cmd="gnome-save-session --kill" ;; *) exit 1 ;; esac ;; *) exit 1 ;; esac eval exec $cmd

Run dialog

Run dialog with history, URI recognition and run-in-xterm functions

Additional software:

• xterm
• perl

code:

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#! /bin/bash XTERM="xterm" # create history file mkdir -p ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/ HISTFILE=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/ix-run.history touch $HISTFILE # create and run dialog TITLE="Run command" TEXT="\nEnter command to execute:\n" rcmd=$('yad --width=500 --center --window-icon="gtk-execute" --name="${0##*/}" --title="$TITLE" --text="$TEXT" --image="gtk-execute" --entry --editable --rest="$HISTFILE") [[ -z "$rcmd" ]] && exit 0 # run command case $rcmd in http://*|https://*|ftp://*) xdg-open $rcmd & ;; mailto://*) xdg-email $rcmd & ;; man://*) eval $XTERM -e "man ${rcmd#man://}" & ;; telnet*|ssh*) eval $XTERM -e "$rcmd" & ;; *) eval $rcmd & ;; esac # add command to history grep -q -F "$rcmd" $HISTFILE || sed -i "1 i $rcmd" $HISTFILE exit 0

Autostart editor

Edit content of $HOME/.config/autostart.

code:

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#! /bin/bash config_dir=${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config} results=$(mktemp --tmpdir autostart.XXXXXXXXXX) for f in $config_dir/autostart/*.desktop; do grep -m 1 -e '^[[:blank:]]*Exec' $f | cut -d = -f 2 grep -m 1 -e '^[[:blank:]]*Name' $f | cut -d = -f 2 grep -m 1 -e '^[[:blank:]]*Comment' $f | cut -d = -f 2 done | yad --width=500 --height=300 --title="Autostart editor" --image="gtk-execute" \ --text="Add/remove autostart items" --list --editable --print-all \ --multiple --column="Command" --column="Name" --column="Description" > $results if [[ ${PIPESTATUS[1]} -eq 0 ]]; then rm -f $config_dir/autostart/*.desktop i=0 cat $results | while read line; do eval $(echo $line | awk -F'|' '{printf "export NAME=\"%s\" COMMENT=\"%s\" COMMAND=\"%s\"", $2, $3, $1}') cat > $config_dir/autostart/$i$NAME.desktop << EOF [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=$NAME Comment=$COMMENT Exec=$COMMAND StartupNotify=true Terminal=false EOF $((i++)) done unset NAME COMMENT COMMAND fi rm -f $results exit 0

Graphical frontend for su(1)

Run program as a different user (root by default). Ask password if needed

Additional software:

• empty (http://empty.sourceforge.net/)

code:

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#! /bin/bash # some defaults user="root" suargs="-p" force="no" # parse commandline if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then echo "Usage: ${0##*/} [-f] [-u user] [--] " exit 1 fi OPTIND=1 while getopts u: opt; do case "$opt" in f) force="yes" ;; u) user="$OPTARG" ;; esac done shift $((OPTIND - 1)) cmd="$*" if [[ $force != "no" ]]; then # check for sudo sudo_check=$(sudo -H -S -- echo SUDO_OK 2>&1 &) if [[ $sudo_check == "SUDO_OK" ]]; then eval sudo $cmd exit $? fi fi # get password pass=$(yad --class="GSu" \ --title="Password" \ --text="Enter password for user <b>$user</b>:" \ --image="dialog-password" \ --entry --hide-text) [[ -z "$pass" ]] && exit 1 # grant access to xserver for specified user xhost +${user}@ &> /dev/null # run command fifo_in="$(mktemp -u --tmpdir gsu.empty.in.XXXXXXXXX)" fifo_out="$(mktemp -u --tmpdir gsu.empty.out.XXXXXXXXX)" LC_MESSAGES=C empty -f -i $fifo_in -o $fifo_out su $suargs $user -c "$cmd" [[ $? -eq 0 ]] && empty -w -i $fifo_out -o $fifo_in "word:" "$pass\n" exit $?

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: nilarimo...@gmail.com

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: you.hear...@gmail.com

You should really push this into Debian main repositories, cause its such a great idea.

Keep up the good work!

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: hobbs....@gmail.com

Great work. +1 for pushing through to repo's Here's a Desktop Colour-Picker written for yad, for your pleasure! http://code.google.com/p/colour-picker/

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: zac...@free.fr

Very good utility to create very simple dialogs (the goal)

some ideas :

1) Would it be possible to have gui events (key pressing, mouse clicking, object content change, ...) call an external script or binary (once), able to communicate with the gui through stdin/stdout ?

widgets changes requests sent by program stdout to the gui widgets status/contents enquiry sent by program stdout to the gui

asynchronous events sent by the gui to the program stdin widgets status sent by the gui to the program stdin

usage examples : a "clear field" button, dimming or hiding some object when a checkmark is clicked, calculating a field from other ones ?

2) would it be possible to arrange widgets in std hbox/vbox gtk way ? and to have gtk frames to visually group objects ?

(or perharps is all this already possible ?)

thank you very much for this tool.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: stu...@gmail.com

Hi Ananasik, Let me start by saying how great Yad is, i have been using it a lot on Puppy Linux to great effect - i wonder though if it would be possible to request an added feature for Yad - for more complex GUI's that require quite a lot of user inputs an option that allows user inputs or vertical columns of user inputs to be side by side in the same GUI to make the most of available screen space? example: field=(left) field1=(right) So you you have two vertical rows from left to right in the same GUI increasing user inputs from 14 on my 15 inch laptop screen to 28 user inputs.

I hope this makes sense? Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

thanks for idea. i think, it would be better to specify a number of columns in form and direction how to fill cells with fields

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: de067018@googlemail.com

Hi Ananasik, great stuff & kudos to you. It's far better than zenity I used before. I have two questions: Is there a windows port of yad and how can I show access keys in yad dialogs. Thx and keep up your work.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: azd...@googlemail.com

Hi Ananasik,

Just want to say thanks for yad. I had used zenity but now I have moved to using yad. I have an application that needs to display notifications via dialogs on-top and yad does the job really well.

My problem is with multiple dialos. If I display one dialog, then moments later I display another, at the moment the first dialog is the only one visible on top (the other one is hiding underneath). I'd really like it that the latest dialog always get to the top. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

placing windows is a window manager tasks. yad's --on-top option just set a corresponding window property, to tell wm how to place this window. you may play with setting window names of your dialogs and set right placement policies for them in your window manager's configuration

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: christri...@gmail.com

Hello Ananasik,

I have this code below and i need when i press a button to run a function, to connect every button with a different function, how i can do it?

yad --height=400 --width=400 --title="Crypt" --text="Choose what to do" \
                                             --form \
                                             --field="Create folder:BTN" \
                                             --field="Open folder:BTN" \
                                             --field="Close folder:BTN" \
                                             --field="Import folder:BTN" \
                                             --field="Delete folder:BTN" \
                                             --field="Backup folder:BTN" \
                                             --field="Restore:BTN" \

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

in a short - just use extra arguments for sets commands for buttons in the same order as fields specified. for example:

yad --forme --field "button1:btn" --field "button2:btn" --field "button3:btn" "echo 'button1 pressed'" "echo 'button2 pressed'" "echo 'button3 pressed'"

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: christri...@gmail.com

i cannot make it work...could you point out my mistake?

    button1() {

                    echo "button 1 is pressed"

                }

yad --form --field "button1:btn" --field "button2:btn" --field "button3:btn" "button1" "echo 'button2 pressed'" "echo 'button3 pressed'"

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

if you wish to use function as a command, you must export it and call as a "sh -c function". so your example will be

button1 () { echo "button 1 is pressed" } export -f button1

yad --form --field "button1:btn" --field "button2:btn" --field "button3:btn" "sh -c button1" "echo 'button2 pressed'" "echo 'button3 pressed'"

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: christri...@gmail.com

i will try it...thanks! yad is awesome! :)

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: christri...@gmail.com

i copy&paste your code and i get syntax error: unexpected end of file

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

this is bad formatting

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#! /bin/bash function button1 () { echo "button 1 is pressed" } export -f button1 yad --form --field "button1:btn" --field "button2:btn" --field "button3:btn" \ "sh -c button1" "echo 'button2 pressed'" "echo 'button3 pressed'"

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: christri...@gmail.com

now i get

sh: button1: not found
button2 pressed
button3 pressed

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: christri...@gmail.com

i replace sh with bash and its ok now... i will came up later with other questions :P

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: christri...@gmail.com

hello again :P now i have this

yad --form --field "button1:btn" --field="Name" "echo 'button1 is pressed'" "read name"
}}} and i want to read the word that the user write in the field name, how i can do it?
P.S do you have a detailed documentation or anything with more examples? thanks!

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

just press ok button. or do you want to get current field value without closing dialog?

p.s. and i think, the maillist (http://groups.google.com/group/yad-common) is a more correct place for such discussions

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: MeissS...@gmail.com

Simple alert tool, wrote this yad, will i share here ;)

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#!/bin/bash # # Alarm clock for PCLinuxOS # # Don't miss important times and events. Turn your computer # into the perfect wake up system. Set the alarm and get the # Pizza out of the oven in perfect time. # # Author: D.M-Wilhelm (Leiche) # Email: meisssw01 at gmail.com # Licence: GPL # First build: May Wed 11 2011 # Last build: Jul Sun 10 2011 # fixed icon display in systray, move zenity, # based now on yad. # Encoding=UTF-8 # # i18n - Internationalization - Internationalisierung # export TEXTDOMAIN=alert_clock export TEXTDOMAINDIR="/usr/share/locale" # # define some variables - Definierung einiger Variablen # TITLE=alert_clock VERSION=0.32 ICON=/usr/share/icons/wecker.png # #question - Frage # function menu { COUNTDOWN=$(yad --entry --text $"Enter minutes...!" --title="$TITLE"" $VERSION" --window-icon=$ICON \ --image=$ICON \ --button=$"Change:2" \ --button=$"Test:3" \ --button="gtk-ok:0" \ --button="gtk-close:1" \ ) ret=$? [[ $ret -eq 1 ]] && exit 0 # #change sound - Sound ändern # if [[ $ret -eq 2 ]]; then CHANGE=$(yad --title="$TITLE"" $VERSION" --window-icon=$ICON \ --file --width=600 --height=500 \ --text=$"<b>Choose your own audio file as alert!</b> ________________________________________________") if [ -z "$CHANGE" ];then exec alert_clock exit 0 else mkdir $HOME/.config/alert-clock rm -rf $HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert sleep 1 ln -s "$CHANGE" $HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert yad --title $"$TITLE"" $VERSION" \ --button="gtk-ok:0" \ --width 300 \ --window-icon=$ICON \ --text=$"Your own sound is set!!" fi menu fi # #Test sound - Klang testen # if [[ $ret -eq 3 ]]; then if [ -f $HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert ]; then SOUND="$HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert" else SOUND='/usr/share/alert_clock/alarm.ogg' fi mplayer "$SOUND" | yad --title $"$TITLE"" $VERSION" \ --button="gtk-ok:0" \ --width 300 \ --window-icon=$ICON \ --text=$"Exit sound test!!" killall mplayer menu fi } menu # #progress - Prozess # if [ "$COUNTDOWN" = "" ];then exit else echo you enter "$COUNTDOWN" minutes TIMER=$(echo $(($COUNTDOWN*60))) TASK1=$(date -s "+$TIMER seconds" 2>/dev/null | cut -d " " -f4) exec 3> >(yad --notification --command=CMD --image=$ICON --listen) echo tooltip: $"Alarm clock was set to $COUNTDOWN minutes and notifiers at $TASK1!" >&3 sleep $TIMER exec 3>&- # #check wich sound - auf Audio prüfen # if [ -f $HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert ]; then SOUND="$HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert" else SOUND='/usr/share/alert_clock/alarm.ogg' fi # #alert output - Alarm Ausgabe # (mplayer -loop 0 "$SOUND") | yad --title $"$TITLE"" $VERSION" \ --button="gtk-ok:0" \ --width 300 --image=$ICON \ --window-icon=$ICON \ --text=$"<b>Time is over!!</b>" exit; fi exit

Enjoy, and thanks for yad

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: tiong1...@gmail.com

Hi~ Is there any version of yad for microsoft windows?

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: ananasik

there was an issue about successful build of yad on ms windows - http://code.google.com/p/yad/issues/detail?id=56

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: satyajit...@gmail.com

Hi. The color chooser dialog doesn't return the transparency value. Can it be made to output the value in rgba instead of hex?

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: oren.bod...@gmail.com

Hi all. Does "yad" works with RedHat? OS ?