Funny zenity bug…

[Joep L. Blom]

J wrote:
> 2010/9/16 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:
>> Try this (for instance):
>>
>> zenity --title "Hello\!" --info --text "This is a funny bug\!"
>>
>> Note that the \ is actually displayed after ”Hello”…
>>
>> Another strange thing is that ”This is a funny bug\!” is displayed
>> correctly, that is without the ”\”.
>>
>> So I found no way to display a ”!” in the title line of a zenity dialogue.
>> Is this a bug or is it just me?
>>
>>
>> If I omit one or both of the ”\” characters, I get the error message
>> ”bash: !": event not found”
> 
> Not sure if this is a bug with Zenity in the way it takes the bit
> after --title and turns it into a window title, or just the weirdness
> of BASH and quotation marks.
> 
> If I do it with single quotes, everything works fine:
> 
> bladernr at klaatu:~$
> 
> This opens a window that has Hello! in the title bar and This is a
> funny bug! in the window pane itself...
> 
I think I found the solution in the man-pages.
It says" --title=TITLE"
and    "--text=STRING"

Apparently is the command string after"title=" a special kind of string 
which doesn't need the quotes.Try:
zenity --title Hello\! --info --text "This is a funny bug\!"
This will work correctly (Hello\! without quotes).
Joep