I do not know how the title got to "bash" and cannot cnange / edit it

I there a way to modify whiptail menu display to show second parameter on two ( at least) lines?
In attached file the second menu parameter "falls off" and is not visble.

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it is probably a root owned file, try using sudo nano, or your favorite terminal text editor using sudo to do so. I do not see any bash, just the path to its location.

I am using this command in bash script already "running in " sudo nano editor. The "menu" output layout is pretty temperamental and as fas as I can tell there is no provision to "roll the text of the second parameter over" to new new line.

There should be a "Thread Tools" option that will allow you to edit the title.

Update
I can option the display width to partially show both parameters - the display gets centered ( ?) in window .
The obvious solution then is to have "horizontal scroll ".
My best "solution" is to ask owner of whiptail to add such feature or somehow hack it in.

PS "Thread tools" do not have an option to edit title.

I believe if you edit your first post, and change the title, this controls the thread title.

Either case, what title would you prefer? I can change it for you.

Jim232, i am sorry that apparently nobody knows how to answer your question.
neither do I, unfortunately.
maybe you could explain what whiptail actually is, how you are using it and where it fails (code, not narrative)?
whiptail is not in the software repositories of my distro.

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I am not sure how to respond.
I am having rough time "participating" in forums. Usually after few "responses" I either get banned for being too open or get sidetracked by editors.
Not surprised about lack of responses. By rough estimate only about 80% of my posts actually help me to resolve an issue.
So - take a look at "raspi-config" , but not sure if you can actually get it without loading Raspi flavour of Linux.
"whiptail" is a bash command , sort of poor man GUI used to poorly navigate Raspberry Pi configuration / setting.
I am not knowledgeable how "copyrighted " this configuration file is, and I really do not care. I am building my own using bash script.
You can of course ask Mrs Google about "whiptail bash Linux", if you are interested.
Cheers

I'm guessing that this is the meat of your question, yes?
Try imbedding a newline in the text:

Whiptail is a replacement for dialog and similar to zenity. A way to create dialog boxes in bash.

Can you post your script or at least the whiptail command the creates the dialog box?

That is part of the "problem" - each menu item has two parameters in sequence, separated by "standard" Linux " extended line \ ". There cannot be anything "between" the parameters.

Yes, I did added "\n" to the parameter itself and it did not have desired effect.

Here is an example , part of it, of the initial whiptail test (non working) menu:

TEST=$(whiptail \
--title "DEBUG Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool (raspi-config)" \
--backtitle "Current work in progress file $0 " \
--menu "Setup Options" $WT_HEIGHT $WT_WIDTH $WT_MENU_HEIGHT \
--default-item "10 DEBUG Enable debug " \
--cancel-button Finish --ok-button Select \
"${TESTarray[@]}" \
"$menuFull" "$menuFull" \
"1 Change User Password" "Change password for the current user" \
"2 Network Options" "Configure network settings" \
"3 Boot Options" "Configure options for start-up" \

I would like to add more text to the parameters and still be able to display it.

I tried the usual ways of embedding a line feed but nothing worked and would guess it is probably a limitation of whiptail.

By the way the first "parameter" is the tag and the second is a description. The tag is the return value which is assigned to TEST variable in your script.

that would be an incredibly high succes rate.
congratulations!

i do not see any "\n" in your example.

it's also possible that the TEST="$(whipatil ......)" construct expands the \n to an actual newline; have you tried adding \\n or \\\n instead, or maybe '\n' (single quotes)?

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Please use code tags and post your complete script.

Instead of using whiptail for your bash dialog boxes, I would try using yad instead:

https://www.thelinuxrain.com/article...buttons-of-yad

https://smokey01.com/yad/

Yad is actively maintained and more flexible than whiptail.