Thank you asl97. It seems indeed to be bug #1206760 (I tried to find before posting but did not find that one).
Workaround is effective (well, in situations when it is acceptable, as in all workarounds). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to zenity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1273981 Title: zenity window too big, not even proportional to text length To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zenity/+bug/1273981/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs