Zenity Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Zenity for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Yad, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Zenity and 18 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Zenity are wxFormBuilder, KDialog, xmessage and easybashgui.

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Zenity alternatives page was last updated Jul 25, 2024

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.
22 Yad alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Origin
International
Platforms
Linux
Is Yad a good alternative to Zenity?
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...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is wxFormBuilder a good alternative to Zenity?
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
Shell
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Linux
Is KDialog a good alternative to Zenity?
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xmessage
1 like
display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Linux
X
Is xmessage a good alternative to Zenity?

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xmessage vs Zenity Comments

Guest
Positive commentMar 13, 2017
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In case you only have to display a message, and do not want to need a large part of the gnome environment.
Review by a new / low-activity user.
Guest
Positive commentAug 1, 2019
0
it work form shell command line
Review by a new / low-activity user.
Ome Cor
Positive commentJul 11, 2021
0
Xmessage displays a (GUI) window containing a message from the command line, a file, or standard input (from its man page). It is pretty basic and won't win any beauty contests, but it gets the job done and has quite a few handy options.
Review by a new / low-activity user.
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xmessage is Free and Open SourceZenity is also Free and Open Source
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...
22 easybashgui alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Platforms
Linux
Is easybashgui a good alternative to Zenity?
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whiptail
2 likes
display dialog boxes from shell scripts.
22 whiptail alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Linux
W
Is whiptail a good alternative to Zenity?
wxGlade
3 likes
wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. At the moment it can generate Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML resources) code.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is wxGlade a good alternative to Zenity?
wxSmith
2 likes
wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.
18 wxSmith alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Code::Blocks
Is wxSmith a good alternative to Zenity?
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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
Shell
Platforms
Windows
Linux
D
Is dialog a good alternative to Zenity?
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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
V
Is VisualWX a good alternative to Zenity?
gxmessage
1 like
a GTK-based xmessage clone.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Shell
Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Is gxmessage a good alternative to Zenity?
XRCed
1 like
XRCed is a simple resource editor for wxWidgets/wxPython GUI development which supports creating and editing files in XRC format It is written in Python and uses wxPython GUI toolkit.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is XRCed a good alternative to Zenity?