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Old 04-20-2015, 01:26 PM   #1
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Zenity help needed for dialog boxes please!


So here is the situation. We just upgraded to RHEL6, and our customer has changed their required user login banner to be much longer than before. Zenity creates the window with the required text, but the window goes off the screen so you can't see the bottom of the writing nor the buttons to actually click on them. See first attachment.
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Old 04-20-2015, 01:28 PM   #2
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So then I figured, I will just resize the dialogue box. Well, zenity allows you to do that, but it won't actually put text there (see attachment 2.) All the text stays scrunched up there. No matter what I do I can't get the text to actually show up in the rest of the box to make it all readable and make it show the buttons. I also can't seem to resize the text for some unknown reason.

Anyone have any ideas? Any way to add a scroll bar to this thing?
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Old 04-20-2015, 03:26 PM   #3
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It would be an immense help to show us the code you're using.
 
Old 04-20-2015, 03:35 PM   #4
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Did you try pointing out to the customer that it's totally worthless and then removing it? No one who is accessing the system illicitly is going to read it and say "well, gosh, I guess I better cease my nefarious activity right away". The majority of people probably won't bother to read it, even fewer will read all of it if it's long enough to require a scrollbar.

Code:
$ zenity --title="pointless message" --text-info --filename=pointlessmessage.txt
where pointlessmessage.txt is a file contain whatever text needs to be displayed.

What if someone logs in by hitting ctrl-alt-f3 then does a non-graphical login. Do they be shown the message, or are such logins not subject to the same conditions?


If you put the blah in to /etc/motd it will gets displayed to people doing non-graphical local logins and ssh (if that's allowed) too.
 
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Old 04-20-2015, 04:06 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by arizonagroovejet View Post
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Code:
$ zenity --title="pointless message" --text-info --filename=pointlessmessage.txt
where pointlessmessage.txt is a file contain whatever text needs to be displayed.
We just figured that out; I was just about to update this thread and say that we got it figured out. But thank you anyways!

Initially the text was in the actual post login script, but I guess the previous banner was just small enough to fit, and so when updating it I tried to do things the same way as it was before. I appreciate y'alls fast responses though. Cheers!
 
  


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