xdialog AlternativesShells and other similar apps like xdialog

xdialog is described as 'Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to xdialog for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Python apps. The best xdialog alternative is NirCmd, which is free. Other great apps like xdialog are Zenity, Modern Message Box Generator, Yad and wxFormBuilder.

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  1. NirCmd icon

    NirCmd

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    NirCmd is a small utility that allows you to do many useful tasks from command-line, without displaying any user interface: change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more...

    8 NirCmd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Theyre nothing alike and technically target different operating systems for different use-cases

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    • NirCmd is Free and Proprietaryxdialog is Free and Open Source
    • NirCmd is Lightweightxdialog is not according to our users
  2. Zenity icon

    Zenity

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    Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.

    22 Zenity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. Yad icon

    Yad

     10 likes

    Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. It's useful for creating quick and easy GUIs for shell and batch scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Sample dialog with tabs from YAD's SourceForge.
     
  6. wxFormBuilder icon

    wxFormBuilder

     9 likes

    wxWidgets is an excellent framework that enables the creation of multi-platform applications with and without a graphical user interface. There are several applications that help create dialogs visually, even so, some practical problems have led me to start the development of a...

    21 wxFormBuilder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    wxFormBuilder screenshot 1
     
  7. KDialog icon

    KDialog

     4 likes

    kdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs).

    23 KDialog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    KDialog screenshot 1
     
  9. easybashgui icon

    easybashgui

     1 like

    Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  10. whiptail

     2 likes

    display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

    22 whiptail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    wxSmith

     2 likes

    wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Code::Blocks
    wxSmith screenshot 1
     

  12. dialog

     1 like

    display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.

    22 dialog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  13. MessagePop icon

    MessagePop

     1 like

    MessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. VisualWX

     1 like

    Visualwx aims to be the ultimate RAD tool, designed for c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidgets. Still there are many things to do, but we've achieved considerable progress.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    VisualWX screenshot 1
     
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