Is the --hight option in an --error dialog restricted to >= 200?

[Atishtum Rah]

I use the following code in my bash scripts to display error messages. The error messages consist of a maximum 5 lines of text but the dialog insists of allowing space for at least 10 lines (no matter how small I set the --height option to).

Is this a hard-coded limit within yad or is it a GTK+ limit?

error_comargs=(
  --error
  --image dialog-error
  --no-escape
  --button yad-close:1
  --center
  --height 200
  --width 400
  --title "${DialogTitle}"
  --text "A text option after the error_comargs array will override this default text."
  )

yad_cmd=(
  "${error_comargs[@]}"
  --text "{ErrorMessage}"
   )
yad "${yad_cmd[@]}"

[Ananas]

this is gtk behavior. add --text-width argument to avoid this

чт, 9 квіт. 2026 р. о 21:20 Atishtum Rah <atis...@gmail.com> пише:

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