Which package version includes that upstream bugfix? I'm still being bitten by this issue. This is on a fully up-to-date 12.04.3 system.
$ apt-cache policy zenity zenity: Installed: 3.4.0-0ubuntu4 Candidate: 3.4.0-0ubuntu4 $ zenity --info --text 'x & y' (zenity:14047): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as & (zenity:14047): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as & [(x) Information ] [----------------------------------] [ (info) All updates are complete. ] [ (icon) ] [ ] [ [OK] ] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to zenity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387536 Title: Zenity should ignore markup with a flag Status in Zenity: Fix Released Status in “zenity” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Zenity (specifically, the --info mode) should have a flag that will cause it to ignore Pango markup in its input. I frequently want to use Zenity to display output from scripts, and I shouldn't have to worry about whether the text has things like ampersands in it. (This is particularly annoying, because instead of failing to run when given incorrect input, Zenity will silently default to "All updates are complete", but that's another bug.) I know that I can pipe into zenity --text-info, but that's a workaround, and I don't particularly want to confuse the user by presenting them with a text entry dialog when I just want to display some status information. Some sort of --ignore-pango flag for Zenity would be great. jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 jdreed@infinite-loop:~$ apt-cache policy zenity zenity: Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 2.26.0-0ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zenity/+bug/387536/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp