MessagePop Alternatives

MessagePop is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MessagePop for Linux, Windows, Mac, Python and Qt. The best MessagePop alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MessagePop are Modern Message Box Generator, Yad, KDialog and easybashgui.

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  1. Zenity icon
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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

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    • Linux
     
    • Zenity is the most popular Linux alternative to MessagePop.

    • Zenity is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MessagePop.

    • Zenity is Free and Open SourceMessagePop is Free and Proprietary
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    Generates a customizable "Task Dialog" box - a more modern version of the old Windows message box.'

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    • Windows
     
    • Modern Message Box Generator is the most popular Windows alternative to MessagePop.

    • Modern Message Box Generator is Free and Open SourceMessagePop is Free and Proprietary
  3. Yad icon
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    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

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    • Linux
     
  4. KDialog icon
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    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

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    • Linux
     
  5. easybashgui icon
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    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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    • Linux
     
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    display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

    22 whiptail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  7. FP-QUI icon
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    FP-Notifier has been renamed to FP-QUI.

    FP-QUI generates popup-windows that provide users a quick and ubiquitous interface to practically any application that supports command line instructions or named pipes.

    Apart from showing a text message, one may, for instance, define onC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  9. gxmessage icon
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    a GTK-based xmessage clone.

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

    22 dialog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    CocoaDialog is an OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application. It requires no knowledge of Cocoa, and is ideal for use in shell and Perl scripts (or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
    • CocoaDialog is the most popular Mac alternative to MessagePop.

    • CocoaDialog is Free and Open SourceMessagePop is Free and Proprietary
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