dialog Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to dialog for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Glade, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to dialog and 17 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to dialog are Yad, Zenity, easybashgui and KDialog.

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

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Glade
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17 Glade alternatives
Glade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.
- - Glade is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to dialog.
- - Glade is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to dialog.
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Discontinued
The tool is not developed anymore as it cannot handle Gtk4.Instead Cambalache UI Maker is being developed but it still needs funding.
Yad
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Linux
20 Yad alternatives
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.
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1. Support for scriptingYad supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
2. PortableYad can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Zenity
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Free • Open Source
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20 Zenity alternatives
Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.
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Zenity Features
1. PortableZenity can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Command line interfaceZenity either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Gtk
easybashgui
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Linux
20 easybashgui alternatives
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...
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1. Command line interfaceeasybashgui either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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KDialog
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21 KDialog alternatives
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).
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KDialog Features
1. Command line interfaceKDialog either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
KDE
wxGlade
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17 wxGlade alternatives
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.
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whiptail
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20 whiptail alternatives
display dialog boxes from shell scripts.
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1. Command line interfacewhiptail either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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wxSmith
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Code::Blocks
16 wxSmith alternatives
wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.
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VisualWX
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16 VisualWX alternatives
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.
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VisualWX Features
Rad
C++
Ruby
Discontinued
Last version seems to be VisualWx 0.87.6.0 Alfa April 13 2007, see http://visualwx.altervista.org/downloads.php. There is no version for Python 3.
gxmessage
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12 gxmessage alternatives
a GTK-based xmessage clone.
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1. Command line interfacegxmessage either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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xmessage
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13 xmessage alternatives
display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).
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1. Command line interfacexmessage either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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XRCed
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16 XRCed alternatives
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.
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