Ubuntu – Zenity script: dismiss window with close (x) button or Esc

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Following this solution I have a zenity script to ask me what to do when clicking an executable script in Thunar or a desktop file in Pantheon Files:

#!/bin/bash

zenity --question --text="What to do?" \
       --ok-label=Run \
       --cancel-label=Edit

case $? in
    0)thunar "$1"
    ;;
    1)gedit $1
    ;;
esac

And it shows this:

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But there is a small glitch: you cannot dismiss the dialog at this point: using close window button, Esc or Alt+F4 equates to the --cancel-label option in the script and will open the file in text editor.

How could I edit the script so that when Esc is pressed the zenity windows would close without farther action?

Edit after comment:

I have got this in a comment:

either let the –question dialog –timeout to get a third return value (5)

Indeed, --timeout=4 will close the dialog after that number of secs.

or you can go for multiple choice dialog by –list –radiolist

What does that mean?

Best Answer

Simple example of a radiolist

There is a simple example of a radiolist in this link,

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

Example with --list

I think it is easier to use a simple list (with the option --list but without --radiolist)

$ ans=$(zenity  --list  --title "What to do?"  --column "What to do?" Run Edit 2> /dev/null); echo "ans=$ans"
ans=Run
$ ans=$(zenity  --list  --title "What to do?"  --column "What to do?" Run Edit 2> /dev/null); echo "ans=$ans"
ans=Edit
$ ans=$(zenity  --list  --title "What to do?"  --column "What to do?" Run Edit 2> /dev/null); echo "ans=$ans"
ans=

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