YAD(1) User Commands YAD(1) NAME yad - display GTK+ dialogs from shell scripts or command-line SYNOPSIS yad [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION YAD is a program that will display GTK+ dialogs, and return (either in the return code or on standard output) the users input. This allows you to present information, and ask for information from the user, from all manner of shell scripts. YAD is the fork of Zenity program. OPTIONS This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). Dialog options --about Display about dialog. --app Display application selection dialog. --calendar Display calendar dialog. --color Display color selection dialog. --dnd Display drag-and-drop box. --entry Display text entry dialog. --icons Display box with shortcut icons. --file Display file selection dialog. --font Display font selection dialog. --form Display form dialog --html Display HTML dialog --list Display list dialog --multi-progress Display multi progress bars dialog. --notebook Display notebook dialog. --notification Display notification icon. --print Display print dialog. --progress Display progress indication dialog. --text-info Display text information dialog. --scale Display scale dialog. General options --title=TITLE Set the dialog title. --window-icon=ICON Set the window icon. --width=WIDTH Set the dialog window width. --height=HEIGHT Set the dialog window height. --posx=NUMBER Set the X position of dialog window. NUMBER can be negative. --posy=NUMBER Set the Y position of dialog window. NUMBER can be negative. --geometry=WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y Use standard X Window geometry notation for placing dialog. When this option is used, width, height, posx, posy, mouse and center options are ignored. --timeout=TIMEOUT Set the dialog timeout in seconds. --timeout-indicator=POSITION Show timeout indicator in given position. Positions are top, bottom, left or right. Style of indicator may be set through the users CSS styles. --kill-parent=[SIGNAL] Send SIGNAL to parent process. Default value of SIGNAL is a SIGTERM. SIGNAL may be specified by it's number or symbolic name with or without SIG prefix. See signal(7) for details about signals. --print-xid=[FILENAME] Output X Window ID of a yad's window to the specified file or stderr. --plug=KEY Run dialog in plug mode for swallow as a notebook tab. See NOTEBOOK section for more. --tabnum=NUMBER Set the tab number for plugged dialog. See NOTEBOOK section for more. --text=STRING Set the dialog text. --text-width=NUMBER Set the maximum dialog text width in characters. --text-align=TYPE Set type of dialog text justification. TYPE may be left, right, center or fill. --image=IMAGE Set the dialog image which appears on the left side of dialog`s text. IMAGE might be file name or icon name from current icon theme. --icon-theme=THEME Use specified GTK icon theme instead of default. --keep-icon-size Don't scale icons. This option affects icons outside icon theme. --expander=[TEXT] Hide main widget with expander. TEXT is an optional argument with expander's label. --button=BUTTON:ID Add the dialog button. May be used multiple times. ID is an exit code or a command. BUTTON may be a yad stock item name for predefined buttons (like yad-close or yad-ok) or text in a form LABEL[!ICON[!TOOLTIP]] where `!' is an item separator. Full list of stock items may be found in section STOCK ITEMS. If no buttons specified OK and Cancel buttons used. See EXIT STATUS section for more. If ID have a non-numeric value it treats as a command and click on such button doesn't close the dialog. --no-buttons Don't show buttons. --buttons-layout=TYPE Set buttons layout type. Possible types are: spread, edge, start, end or center. Default is end. --no-markup Don't use pango markup in dialog's text. --no-escape Don't close dialog if Escape was pressed. --escape-ok Escape acts like pressing OK button. --always-print-result Print result for any of the return codes. This option doesn't work if timeout was reached or Escape was pressed. --use-interp=[INTERP] All commands runs unter specified interpreter. Default is bash -c "%s". This option can reduse quoting in commands. If %s is specified, it will be replaced by the command. Otherwise command will be appended to the end of command line. --uri-handler=CMD Use CMD as uri handler. By default yad uses open-command parameter from settings. URI replace %s in command string or adds as a last part of command line. --f1-action=CMD Set the command running when F1 was pressed. --borders=NUM Set dialog window borders. --sticky Make window visible on all desktops. --fixed Make window fixed width and height. --center Place window on center of screen. --mouse Place window under mouse position. --on-top Place window over other windows. --undecorated Make window undecorated (remove title and window borders). --skip-taskbar Don't show window in taskbar and pager. --maximized Run dialog window maximized. --fullscreen Run dialog in fullscreen mode. This option may not work on all window managers. --splash Open window with "splashscreen" window hints. For details see description of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH in EWMH specification. The behavior of dialog with this option is HIGHLY DEPENDS on settings of your window manager. --no-focus Dialog window never take focus. --close-on-unfocus Close the dialog window when it loses focus. --selectable-labels If set, user can select dialog's text and copy it to clipboard. This option also affects on label fields in form dialog. --image-path=PATH Add specified path to the standard list of directories for looking for icons. This option can be used multiple times. --rest=FILENAME Read extra arguments from given file instead of command line. Each line of a file treats as a single argument. --response=NUMBER Set default exit code to NUMBER instead of 0. --css=STRING Read and parse additional GTK+ CSS styles from given data. If STRING is filename, the content of file is loaded. If not STRING treats like CSS data. --gtkrc=FILENAME Read and parse additional GTK+ CSS styles from given file. This option is deprecated. Use --css instead. --hscroll-policy=TYPE Set the policy type for horizontal scrollbars. TYPE can be one of the auto, always or never. Default is auto. --vscroll-policy=TYPE Set the policy type for vertical scrollbars. TYPE can be one of the auto, always or never. Default is auto. --enable-spell Enable spell checking in textview widgets --spell-lang=LANGUAGE Set spell checking language to LANGUAGE. By default language guesses from current locale. Use yad-tools(1) to get list of all possible languages. --bool-fmt=TYPE Set the output type of boolean values to TYPE. Possible types are T, t, Y, y, O, o and 1. T and t - for true/false pair in appropriate case. Y and y - for yes/no pair in appropriate case. O and o - for on/off pair in appropriate case. 1 - for 1/0 pair. Custom about dialog options --pname=STRING Set programm name. --image=IMAGE Set programm icon name. --pversion=STRING Set programm version string. --copyright=STRING Set programm copyrightstring. --comments=STRING Set programm detailed description. --license=STRING Set programm license. The value of this option can be one of predefined licenses (GPL2, GPL3, LGPL2, LGPL3, BSD, MIT or ARTISTIC,), file name with license text or arbitrary string. --authors=STRING Set list of programm authors separated by comma. --website=URI Set a link to programm website. --website-label=LABEL Set a label for programm website link. Application selection options --enable-fallback Show fallback applications. --enable-other Show other applications. --enable-all Show all available applications. --extened Shown extended information about choosen application. By default only executable is shown. In extended form the output fields are name, display name, description, icon and executable. Additional argument for application dialog is a mime-type. If mime-type is not specified text/plain will be used. Calendar options --day=NUMBER Set the calendar day. --month=NUMBER Set the calendar month. --year=NUMBER Set the calendar year. --date-format=PATTERN Set the format for the returned date. By default is `%x'. See strftime(3) for more details. --show-weeks Show the week numbers at the left side of calendar. --details=FILENAME Read days description from FILENAME. File with days details must be in following format: date field is date in format, specified with --date-format option. description is a string with date details, which may include Pango markup. Color selection options --init-color=COLOR Set initial color value. --gtk-palette Show system palette inside color dialog. For GTK+3 builds this option shows palette instead of color editor. --picker Add screen color picker button. --alpha Add opacity to output color string. --palette=[FILENAME] Show palette and set predefined colors from given filename. By default yad use file /etc/X11/rgb.txt. --expand-palette Expander for list of user-defined colors will be initially opened. --mode=MODE Set output color mode. Possible values are hex or rgb. Default is hex. HEX mode looks like #rrggbbaa, RGB mode - rgba(r, g, b, a). In RGBA mode opacity have values from 0.0 to 1.0. Drag-and-Drop box options --tooltip Use dialog text as a tooltip for Drag-and-Drop box. --command=CMD Run command when data received. Data strings pass to command as an argument or replace %s modifier in a command. By default data just prints to stdout. --exit-on-drop=NUMBER Exit after NUMBER of drops was reached. 0 means infinite number of drops, this is the default. Text entry options --entry-label=STRING Set the entry label text. --entry-text=STRING Set the initial entry text or default item in combo-box. --hide-text Hide the entry text. --completion Use completion instead of combo-box. --complete=TYPE Use specific type for extended completion. TYPE can be any for match any of typed words, all for match all of typed words or regex when typed text treats as regular expression. --editable Allow make changes to text in combo-box. --numeric Use spin button instead of text entry. Additional parameters in command line treats as minimum and maximum values, step value and precisions (in that order). All this values are optional. Default range is from 0 to 65535 with step 1. --float-precision=NUMBER Set precision of floating point numbers. By default precision is three digits after point. --licon=IMAGE Set an icon on a left side of entry. --licon-action=CMD Specify a command which will be run when the left icon clicked. Output of command will be set as entry text. --ricon=IMAGE Set an icon on a right side of entry. --ricon-action=CMD Specify a command which will be run when the right icon clicked. Output of command will be set as entry text. --num-output Output index of active element instead of text for combo-box entry. Any extra data specified in command line adds as an items of combo-box entry, except of numeric mode. If icon specified and icon action is not given, click on icon just clear the entry. Numeric fields will ignore the icons. Iconbox options --read-dir=PATH Read .desktop files from specified directory. --monitor Watch for changes in directory and automatically update content of iconbox. --generic Use field GenericName instead of Name for shortcut label. --sort-by-name Use field Name instead of filename for sorting items. --descend Sort items in descending order. If data reads from stdin this option is useless without --sort-by-name. --listen Read data from stdin. Data must be in order - Name, Tooltip, Icon, Command, InTerm separated by newline. InTerm is a case insensitive boolean constant (TRUE or FALSE). Sending FormFeed character clears iconbox. --item-width Set items width. --icon-size Force using specified icon size. This option doesn't work in compact mode. --compact Use compact mode. Icon and name of each item is placed in a single row. --single-click Activate items by single mouse click. This option may not works properly in case of compact mode. --term Pattern for terminal. By default use `xterm -e %s' where %s replaced by the command. If both directory and stdin specified, content of iconbox will be read from directory. File selection options --filename=FILENAME Set the filename. --multiple Allow selection of multiple filenames in file selection dialog. --directory Activate directory-only selection. --save Activate save mode. --separator=STRING Specify separator character when returning multiple filenames. --confirm-overwrite=[TEXT] Confirm file selection if filename already exists. Optional argument is a text for confirmation dialog. --quoted-output Output values will be shell-style quoted. Font selection options --fontname=FONTNAME Set the initial font. FONTNAME is a string with font representation in the form "[FAMILY-LIST] [STYLE-OPTIONS] [SIZE]". --preview Set the preview text. --separate-output Separate output of selected font description. --separator=STRING Set output separator character. Default is `|'. --quoted-output Output data will be in shell-style quotes. Form options --field=LABEL[!TOOLTIP][:TYPE] Add field to form. Type may be H, RO, NUM, CHK, CB, CBE, CE, FL, SFL, DIR, CDIR, FN, MFL, MDIR, DT, SCL, SW, APP, ICON, CLR, BTN, FBTN, LINK, LBL or TXT. H - hidden field type. All characters are displayed as the invisible char. RO - field is in read-only mode. NUM - field is a numeric. Initial value format for this field is VALUE[!RANGE[!STEP![PREC]]], where RANGE must be in form MIN..MAX. `!' is a default item separator. PREC is a precision for decimals. CHK - checkbox field. Initial value is a case insensitive boolean constant (TRUE or FALSE). CB - combo-box field. Initial value is a list VAL1!VAL2!.... The separator is the same as in NUM field. Value started with `^' threats as default for combo-box. CBE - editable combo-box field. Initial value same as for combo- box. CE - entry with completion. Initial value same as for combo-box. FL - file selection button. SFL - field for create file. DIR - directory selection button. CDIR - field for create folder. FN - font selection button. Initial value same as in font dialog. MFL - select multiple files. Value of this field is a list of files separated by item-separator. MDIR - select multiple folders. Value of this field is a list of folders separated by item-separator. DT - date field. SCL - scale field. Value of this field in a range 0..100. SW - switch field. Initial value is a case insensitive boolean constant (TRUE or FALSE). APP - application selection button. Input value for this field is mime-type. Output value - executable for selected application. ICON - icon field. Like average entry field but has two icons. Left shows current icon and right is clickable and calls yad- con-browser for choosing icon. CLR - color selection button. Output values for this field generates in the same manner as for color dialog. BTN - button field. Label may be in form text in a form LABEL[!ICON[!TOOLTIP]] where `!' is an item separator. LABEL is a text of button label or yad stock id. ICON is a buttons icon (stock id or file name). TOOLTIP is an optional text for popup help string. Initial value is a command which is running when button is clicked. A special sympols %N in command are replaced by value of field N. If command starts with @, the output of command will be parsed and lines started with number and colon will be treats as a new field values. A quoting style for value when sh -c is used - a single quotes around command and double quotes around -c argument FBTN - same as button field, but with full relief of a button. LINK - link button field. LBL - text label. If field name is empty, horizontal separator line will be shown. TXT - multiline text entry. This field is always occupy all of form width. Without type field will be a simple text entry. --align=TYPE Set alignment of field labels. Possible types are left, center or right. Default is left. --columns=NUMBER Set number of columns in form. Fields will be placed from top to bottom. --separator=STRING Set output separator character. Default is `|'. --focus-field=NUMBER Set focused field. --cycle-read Cycled reading of stdin data. Sending FormFeed character clears the form. This symbol may be sent as echo -e '\f'. --align-buttons Align label on button fields according to --align settings. --item-separator=STRING Set separator character for combo-box or scale values. Default is `!'. --date-format=PATTERN Set the format for the date fields (same as in calendar dialog). --float-precision=NUMBER Set precision of floating point numbers. By default precision is three digits after point. --complete=TYPE Use specific type for extended completion. TYPE can be any for match any of typed words, all for match all of typed words or regex when typed text treats as regular expression. --scroll Make form scrollable. --homogeneous Makes form fields height ans columns width the same size. --changed-action=CMD Run CMD when CHK, CB, or SW field value is changed. Command runs with two arguments - number of changed field and its current value. Output of a command parsing in a same manner as in BTN fields with @ prefix. Attention - this option may slow down your dialog. --quoted-output Output values will be in shell-style quotes. --output-by-row Output field values row by row if several columns is specified. --num-output Output index of active element instead of text for combo-box fields. Additional data in command line interprets as a default values for form fields. A special value @disabled@ makes corresponding field inactive. If no extra arguments specified in a command line, data will be readed from stdin, one value per line. Cycled reading means that for N fields N+1 value will replace the first field. Empty values are skipped when reading from stdin. HTML options --uri=URI Open specified location. URI can be a filename or internet address. If URI is not an existing file and protocol is not specified a prefix http:// will be added to URI. --browser Turn on browser mode. In this mode all clicked links will be opened in html widget and command Open will be added to context menu. --print-uri Print clicked links to standard output. By default clicked links opens with xdg-open. --mime=MIME Set mime type of data passed to standard input to MIME. Default is text/html. --encodintg=ENCODING Set encoding of data passed to standard input to ENCODING. Default is UTF-8. --uri-handler=CMD Set external handler for clicked uri. %s will be replaced by activated uri. Return code of the CMD must be 0 for keep working, 1 for ignoring uri and 2 for downloading uri. This option works only in browser mode. There are two environment variables available in handler - YAD_HTML_BUTTON with value of pressed mouse button and YAD_HTML_STATE with value of bitmask with the the state of the modifier keys. --user-agent=STRING Set user agent string. Default is YAD-Webkit (@VERSION@) --user-style=STRING Load custom custom user styles from file or arbitrary data. STRING may be a path to local file with CSS code or CSS code itself. --disable-search Disable search bar. --file-op Enable file operations. This option adds open menu item to popup menu, --wk-prop=PROP Set additional WebKit setting. This option may be used multiply times. Setting PROP must be in a form "setting-name value". First character of value must be a type identifier b for booleans, i for integers and s for strings. The values itself following by a colon. List of possible settings can be found on this page - https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/WebKitSettings.html When dialog works in browser mode additional data in command line interprets as URI. List options --column=STRING[:TYPE] Set the column header. Types are TEXT, NUM, SZ, FLT, CHK, RD, BAR, IMG, HD or TIP. TEXT type is default. Use NUM for integers and FLT for double values. TIP is used for define tooltip column. SZ size column type. Works exactly like NUM column but shows human readable sizes instead of numbers. CHK (checkboxes) and RD (radio toggle) are a boolean columns. BAR is a progress bar column. Value must be between 0 and 100. If value is outside is range it will be croped to neares legal value. HD type means a hidden column. Such columns are not displayes in the list, only in output. IMG may be path to image or icon name from currnet GTK+ icon theme. Size of icons may be set in gtk config file at GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU position of gtk-icon-sizes. Images specified by icon names will be scaled to GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU until --force-icon-size option is not sets. Image field prints as empty value. Special column names @fore@, @back@ and @font@ sets corresponding rows attributes. Values of those columns don't show in results. Column title can be specified in form name!tooltip and Pango markup can be used in name and tooltip parts. --tree Enbale tree mode. In this mode extra data in form ROW_ID[:PARENT_ID] must be passed to yad before each row. See EXAMPLES for details. --checklist Use check boxes for the first column. Output checked rows instead of selected rows. Disable multiple selection. --radiolist Same as --checklist but with a radio toggle for the first column. --separator=STRING Set output separator characters. --multiple Allow multiple rows to be selected. --editable Allow changes to text. --editable-cols=LIST Set the list of editable columns. LIST must be a string of numbers separated by comma. --no-headers Do not show column headers. --no-click Disable sorting of column content by clicking on its header. --no-rules-hint Don't draw even and odd rows by a different colors. This option depends on your current gtk theme and may not work. --grid-lines=TYPE Draw grid lines of type TYPE in list dialog. TYPE can be one of the hor[izontal], vert[ical] of both. --no-selection Disable selection in list. --print-all Print all data from the list. --print-column=NUMBER Specify what column will be printed to standard output. 0 may be used to print all columns (this is default). --hide-column=NUMBER Hide a specific column. --expand-column=NUMBER Set the column expandable by default. 0 sets all columns expandable. --search-column=NUMBER Set the quick search column. 0 mean to disable searching. By default search mades on first column. --tooltip-column=NUMBER Set the column with popup tooltips. --sep-column=NUMBER Set the row separator column. If the cell value from this column equal to specified row separator value such row will be draw as separator. Separator value must be set. --sep-value=TEXT Set the TEXT as a row separator value. This feature highly depends on your current GTK+ theme and may not work properly. --limit=NUMBER Set the number of rows in list dialog. Will be shown only the last NUMBER rows. This option will take effect only when data reading from stdin. --wrap-width=NUMBER Set the width of column before wrapping to NUMBER. --wrap-cols=LIST Set the list of wrapped columns. LIST must be a string of numbers separated by comma. --ellipsize=TYPE Set ellipsize mode for text columns. TYPE may be NONE, START, MIDDLE or END. --ellipsize-cols=LIST Set the list of ellipsized columns. LIST must be a string of numbers separated by comma. --dclick-action=CMD Set the CMD as a double-click command. When user double-clicked on row, CMD will be launched with values of all columns as an arguments. By default double-click selects row and act as OK button for simple lists, set the checkbox if --checklist specified and do nothing when list run with --multiple option. When double-click specified Enter acts as a double-click and Ctrl+Enter acts as an OK button. CMD may contain a special character `%s' for setting a position for arguments. By default arguments will be concatenated to the end of CMD. If CMD starts with @, its output will replace values of current row. This option doesn't work with --editable. --select-action=CMD Set the CMD as a action when selection is changed. CMD will be launched with values of all columns as an arguments. CMD may contain a special character `%s' for setting a position for arguments. By default arguments will be concatenated to the end of CMD. This option doesn't work with --multiple. --row-action=CMD Set the CMD as a action when the row is added, modified or removed. First argument for the command is the name of action (add, edit or del). The rest of command line is data from selected row. Output of this command sets the new row values. --tree-expanded Expand all tree nodes at startup. --regex-search Use regular expressions in search for text fields. --listen Listen data from stdin even if command-line values was specified. --quoted-output Output values will be shell-style quoted. --float-precision=NUMBER Set precision of floating point numbers. By default precision is three digits after point. --add-on-top Add new records at the top of the list. --tail | --auto-scroll Autoscroll to the end of the list when a new row will be added. --iec-format Use IEC (base 1024) units with for size values. With this option values will have suffixes KiB, MiB, GiB. --simple-tips Don't use markup in tooltips even if text has a valid markup. --header-tips Use header name as a fallback tooltip text. --column-align=STRING Set alignment for columns. STRING must contain array of letters l, r or c for left, center or right alignment of column content. --header-align=STRING Set alignment for column headers. STRING same as in --column- align. Sending FormFeed character to list clears it. This symbol may be sent as echo -e '\f'. Notebook options --key=KEY Set the key of the children. --tab=TEXT Add tab with specified label to notebook. TEXT may be in a form LABEL[!ICON[!TOOLTIP]] where `!' is an item separator. For stack mode TEXT for label uses as is. --tab-pos=TYPE Set the tabs position. Value may be top, bottom, left, or right. Default is top. For stack mode only top or bottom positions available. --tab-borders=NUMBER Set the borders width around widget in tabs. --active-tab=NUMBER Set active tab. --expand Expand all tabs to full width of a dialog window. --stack Use stack mode (GtkStack instead of GtkNotebook). See NOTEBOOK and PANED section for more about notebook dialog. Notification options --command=CMD Set the command running when clicked on the icon. Default action is quit if --listen not specified. --listen Listen for commands on stdin. See NOTIFICATION section. --separator=STRING Set separator character for menu values. Default is |. --item-separator=STRING Set separator character for menu items. Default is !. --menu=STRING Set initial menu for right-click. --no-middle Disable exit on middle click. --hidden Doesn't show icon at startup. --icon-size=SIZE Set notification icon size to SIZE. This option doesn't works for themed icons. See NOTIFICATION section for more about separators. Paned options --key=KEY Set the key of the children. --orient=TYPE Set orientation of panes inside dialog. TYPE may be in hor[izontal] or vert[ical]. --splitter=POS Set the initial splitter position. --focused=PANE Set pane for initial focus. PANE must be 1 or 2. Default is 1. See NOTEBOOK and PANED section for more about paned dialog. Picture options --size=VALUE Set initial size of picture. Available values are fit for fitting image in window or orig for show picture in original size. --inc=NUMBER Set increment value for scaling image. --filename=FILENAME Set picture filename. If no file name is specified extra data will be used. In this case several filenames can be specified. --file-op Enable file operations. This option adds open menu item to popup menu, --image-changed=CMD Set command which runs after changing image. Argument of a command is a filename of current image. Argument can be specified by '%s' pattern or will be the last part of a command. Some actions on a picture like navigation, scaling or rotating available from popup menu. Those actions can be made only on static images. Print options --type=TYPE Set source file type. TYPE may be a TEXT for text files, IMAGE for image files or RAW for files in postscript or pdf formats. --filename=FILENAME Set name or path to the source file. --headers Add headers to the top of page with filename and page number. This option doesn't work for RAW type. --add-preview Add Preview button to the print dialog. This option doesn't work for RAW type. --fontname=FONTNAME Set the font for printing text. FONTNAME is a string with font representation in the form "[FAMILY-LIST] [STYLE-OPTIONS] [SIZE]". This option works only for TEXT type. Progress options When the --progress option is used, yad reads lines of progress data from stdin. When the lines begin with # the text after # is displayed in the progress bar label. Numeric values treats like a percents for progress bar. --bar=LABEL[:TYPE] Add progress bar. LABEL is a text label for progress bar. TYPE is a progress bar type. Types are: NORM for normal progress bar, RTL for inverted progress bar and PULSE for pulsate progress bar. If no bars specified, the progress dialog works in single-bar mode. --vertical Set vertical orientation of progress bars. --align=TYPE Set alignment of bar labels. Possible types are left, center or right. Default is left. --progress-text=TEXT Set the label of progress bar to TEXT. This option works only in single-bar mode. --hide-text Hide text in progress bars. --rtl Set Right-To-Left progress bar direction. This option works only in single-bar mode. --auto-close Close dialog when 100% has been reached. --auto-kill Kill parent process if cancel button is pressed. --pulsate Pulsate progress bar. This option works only in single-bar mode. --scroll Make layout scrollable. --enable-log[=TEXT] Show log window. This window gathers all of lines from stdin, started from # instead of setting appropriate progress text. Optional argument TEXT is a text label for window expander. --log-on-top Place log window above progress bars. --log-expanded Start with expanded log window. --log-height Set the height of log window. Initial values for bars sets as an extra arguments. Each lines with progress data passed to stdin must be started from N: where N is a number of progress bar. In a single-bar mode N: is not needed. Text info options --filename=FILENAME Open specified file. --editable Allow changes to text. --wrap Enable text wrapping. --formatted Enable Pango markup. This option doesn't work with --editable option. --justify=TYPE Set justification. TYPE may be left, right, center or fill. Default is left. --margins=NUMBER Set text margins to NUMBER. --tail | --auto-scroll Autoscroll to end when new text appears. This option works only when text is read from stdin. --line=NUMBER Jump to specific line at startup. This option works only when filename was specified --show-cursor Show cursor in read-only mode. --show-uri Make links in text clickable. Links opens with xdg-open command. --fore=COLOR Set default color for text. --back=COLOR Set default color for background. --uri-color=COLOR Set color for links. Default is blue. --listen Listen data from stdin even if filename was specified. --in-place Save file on exit instead of print it content on stdout. This option works only if file was specified from command-line. --file-op Enable file operations. This option adds open and save menu items to popup menu, This option works only in editable mode. --disable-search Disable search bar. --confirm-save=[TEXT] Confirm file saving if file content was changed. This option works only when --in-place is specified. Optional argument is a text for confirmation dialog. Next options works only if yad builds with GtkSourceView. --lang=LANGUAGE Highlight syntax for specified LANGUAGE. --theme=THEME Set used theme to THEME. Use yad-tools(1) to get list of all available themes. --mime=TYPE Specify mime type of input data. This options only needed for guessing appropriate syntax highlighting. --line-num Show line numbers. --line-hl Highlight current line. --line-marks Enable line marks mode. There are two types of marks. First type sets by left mouse button and second by the right mouse button. --mark1-color=COLOR Set background color for marks of first type to COLOR. Default is lightgreen. --mark2-color=COLOR Set background color for marks of second type to COLOR. Default is pink. --right-margin=[POS] Enable mark of right margin. Optional argument POS is a margin position in characters. Default is 80. --brackets Highlight matching brackets. --indent Enable autoindent. This option also sets TAB key as indent key. --smart-he=TYPE Set behavior of HOME and END keys. The TYPE is one of newer, before, after or always. --smart-bs Enable smart mode for BackSpace. If this option is enabled BackSpace will delete spaces to the next tab position. --tab-width Set tabulation step. --indent-width Set indentation step. --spaces Insert spaces instead of tabulation. If fontname option is specified for text dialog, the description of font must be in CSS style (not in a Pango style). Sending FormFeed character to text dialog clears it. This symbol may be sent as echo -e '\f'. Pressing Ctrl+S popups the search entry in text dialog. Scale options --value=VALUE Set initial value. --min-value=VALUE Set minimum value. --max-value=VALUE Set maximum value. --step=VALUE Set step size. --enforce-step Only allow values in step increments. --page=VALUE Set paging size. By default page value is STEP*10. --print-partial Print partial values. --hide-value Hide value. --vertical Show vertical scale. --invert Invert scale direction. --inc-buttons Show buttons on edges of a scale for increasing or decreasing scale value. --mark=[NAME]:VALUE Add a mark to scale. May be used multiple times. NAME is an optional arguments for set label to mark. File filters options --file-filter=NAME | PATTERN1 PATTERN2 ... Add a filename filter. NAME is a displayed filter name, PATTERN is a shell-style filename pattern (for example *.txt). This option may be used multiple times. --mime-filter=NAME | MIME1 MIME2 ... Add a mime-type filter. NAME is a displayed filter name, PATTERN is a name of mime type (for example text/plain). This option may be used multiple times. --image-filter=[NAME] Add filter for images supported by gdk-pixbuf library. NAME in as optional name for this filter. This options applies to all of yad's file chooser dialogs. File preview options --add-preview Add preview widget. Preview images loads from normal (default) or large thumbnails according to XDG Thumbnails specification v0.8.0 (http://standards.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/latest/) or creates by yad for image files and saves as normal or large thumbnails. --large-preview Use large previews by default. This option can be permanently turned on through yad settings. This options applies to all of yad's file chooser dialogs. NOTE: YAD doesn't check mtime for thumbnailed images and doesn't updates preview if origial file was changed after thumbnail was created. Miscellaneous options -?, --help Show summary of options. --about Display an about dialog. --version Show version of program. Also the standard GTK+ options are accepted. NOTEBOOK and PANED Notebook is a complex dialog which swallow other dialogs in his tabs. Dialogs identifies by unique key (integer) and must be runs in a special plug mode (--plug option). Following example runs notebook dialog with two tabs, first has a simple text and second is an entry dialog. #! /bin/sh yad --plug=12345 --tabnum=1 --text="first tab with text" &> res1 & yad --plug=12345 --tabnum=2 --text="second tab" --entry &> res2 & yad --notebook --key=12345 --tab="Tab 1" --tab="Tab 2" NOTE: The order of output results for tabs is undefined! Paned works in a same manner as a notebook with one restriction - only first and secong plug dialogs will be swallowed to panes. NOTIFICATION Allows commands to be sent to yad in the form command:args. Possible commands are icon, tooltip, visible, action, menu and quit. icon:ICONNAME Set notification icon to ICONNAME. tooltip:STRING Set notification tooltip. visible:[true|false] Set notification icon to visible or invisible state. action:COMMAND Specify the command running when click on the icon. There are two special commands - menu for popup user defined menu and quit for exit the program. menu:STRING Set popup menu for notification icon. STRING must be in form name1[!action1[!icon1]]|name2[!action2[!icon2]].... Empty name add separator to menu. Separator character for values (e.g. `|') sets with --separator argument. Separator character for menu items (e.g. `!') sets with --item-separator argument. quit Exit the program. Middle click on icon also send quit command. STOCK ITEMS This is a list of predefined items available in yad. ID Label text Icon name --------------------------------------------- yad-about About help-about yad-add Add list-add yad-apply Apply gtk-apply yad-cancel Cancel gtk-cancel yad-clear Clear document-clear yad-close Close window-close yad-edit Edit gtk-edit yad-execute Execute system-run yad-no No gtk-no yad-ok OK gtk-ok yad-open Open document-open yad-print Print document-print yad-quit Quit application-exit yad-refresh Refresh view-refresh yad-remove Remove list-remove yad-save Save document-save yad-search Search system-search yad-settings Settings gtk-preferences yad-yes Yes gtk-yes ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES YAD_OPTIONS This variable can holds some default options for yad. All options in this variable may be redefined from command line. YAD_PID This variable sets to the value of current dialog's pid and accessible in all dialog children. YAD_XID This variable sets to the value of current dialog's X Window ID and accessible in all dialog children. This variable is not set in print and notification dialogs, and in a dialogs which acts as a notebook or paned children. USER DEFINED SIGNALS SIGUSR1 Close dialog with 0 exit code. SIGUSR2 Close dialog with 1 exit code. EXIT STATUS 0 The user has pressed OK button 1 The user has pressed Cancel button 70 The dialog has been closed because the timeout has been reached. 252 The dialog has been closed by pressing Esc or used the window functions to close the dialog Exit codes for user-specified buttons must be specified in command line. Even exit code mean to print result, odd just return exit code. WIDGETS NAMES The look and feel of yad's dialogs can be customized through gtkrc file. Here is the names of yad's widgets: Widget name Widget type Description --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- yad-dialog-window GtkDialog Dialog window yad-dialog-image GtkImage Dialog image yad-dialog-label GtkLabel Dialog text yad-app-widget GtkAppChooserWidget Application selection widget yad-calendar-widget GtkCalendar Calendar widget yad-color-widget GtkColorChooser Color selection widget yad-color-palette GtkTreeView Predefined colors list yad-entry-label GtkLabel Entry label yad-entry-widget GtkEntry Entry widget yad-entry-spin GtkSpinButton Entry widget for numeric values yad-entry-combo GtkComboBox Entry widget with combo yad-entry-edit-combo GtkComboBoxEntry Entry widget with editable combo yad-file-widget GtkFileChooser File selection widget yad-font-widget GtkFontChooser Font selection widget yad-form-flabel GtkLabel Field label in form yad-form-button GtkButton Button field in form yad-form-entry GtkEntrfy Entry field in form yad-form-spin GtkSpinButton Numeric entry field in form yad-form-check GtkCheckButton Checkbox field in form yad-form-combo GtkComboBox Combo field in form yad-form-edit-combo GtkComboBoxEntry Editable combo field in form yad-form-link GtkLinkButton Link field in form yad-form-file GtkFileChooserButton File or directory field in form yad-form-font GtkFontChooserButton Font field in form yad-form-app GtkAppChooserButton Application field in form yad-form-switch GtkSwitch Switch field in form yad-form-color GtkColorChooserButton Color field in form yad-form-label GtkLabel Label field in form yad-form-scale GtkScale Scale widget in form yad-form-separator GtkSeparator Separator in form yad-form-text GtkTextView Multiline text field in form yad-icons-full GtkIconView Icons widget for normal mode yad-icons-compact GtkTreeView Icons widget for compact mode yad-list-widget GtkTreeView List widget yad-notebook-widget GtkNotebook Notebook widget yad-paned-widget GtkPaned Horizontal or vertical pane widget yad-progress-widget GtkProgressBar Progressbar widget yad-scale-widget GtkScale Scale widget yad-stack-widget GtkStack Stack widget yad-stack-switcher-widget GtkStackSwitcher Stack switcher widget yad-text-widget GtkTextView Text info widget yad-timeout-indicator GtkProgreeBar Timeout indicator SETTINGS YAD keeps settings in gsettings database. Use gsettings list-keys yad.settings to get list of available settings. Settings values can be obtained by gsettings get yad.settings and changed by gsettings set yad.settings EXAMPLES Display a file selector with the title Select a file to remove. The file selected is returned on standard output. yad --title="Select a file to remove" --file-selection Display a text entry dialog with the title Select Host and the text Select the host you would like to flood-ping. The entered text is returned on standard output. yad --title "Select Host" --entry --text "Select the host you would like to flood-ping" Display a dialog, asking Microsoft Windows has been found! Would you like to remove it?. The return code will be 0 (true in shell) if YES is selected, and 1 (false) if NO is selected. yad --image "dialog-question" --title "Alert" --button=gtk- yes:0 --button=gtk-no:1 --text "Microsoft Windows has been found! Would you like to remove it?" Show the search results in a list dialog with the title Search Results and the text Finding all header files.... find . -name '*.h' | yad --list --title "Search Results" --text "Finding all header files.." --column "Files" Show an icon in the notification area yad --notification --image=update.png --text "System update necessary!" --command "xterm -e apt-get upgrade" Display a weekly shopping list in a check list dialog with Apples and Oranges pre selected yad --list --checklist --column "Buy" --column "Item" TRUE Apples TRUE Oranges FALSE Pears FALSE Toothpaste Display a progress dialog while searching for all the postscript files in your home directory find $HOME -name '*.ps' | yad --progress --pulsate Display a box with all of the installed desktop applications yad --icons --read-dir=/usr/share/applications Display list in tree mode yad --list --tree --column "Items" f Fruits 1:f Apple 2:f Lemon v Vegetables 3:v Popato 4:v Onion DEVELOPMENT There are some developers features providing with YAD. YAD icon browser is a graphical tool for discover icons in current or user-specified GTK+ icon theme. Launch it as yad-icon-browser [theme] When using autoconf you may use special m4 macro AM_PATH_YAD for looking for yad and check it version. Usage of this macro is AM_PATH_YAD([MINIMUM-VERSION],\ [ACTION-IF-FOUND],\ [ACTION-IF- NOT-FOUND]) AUTHORS Yad was written by Victor Ananjevsky . Yad icon created by Bogdan Lisovich. SEE ALSO gdialog(1), dialog(1), zenity(1), yad-tools(1) yad April 2021 YAD(1)