On Wed 17 Nov 2021 at 10:35:20 (-0500), Allen Hoover wrote: > I use a number of zenity dialogs for showing info or asking questions on > this system. On the Deb 9 system, these dialogs displayed with a > reasonable width/height, without explicitly setting either --width or > --height options. However, after upgrading, I noticed the info, > warning, and question dialogs display only about 10 text characters per > line. For instance, zenity --info --text "The quick brown fox jumped > over the lazy dogs", displays in 5 rows, instead of in 1 row like it > used to before upgrading. The behaviour is the same on a fresh install > of 11. > > Was curious if anyone else had issues with this, and if there is a way > to change the default behaviour. Or do I need to go through and add > --width and --height options in every instance where zenity is used?
Search for width in /usr/share/doc/zenity/changelog.gz and you will see various entries concerning this (fixes, failed fixes?). I can't judge whether the solution is there (I hadn't heard of zenity until today). Cheers, David.
