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 Yad, easybashgui, KDialog and whiptail.

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Zenity
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
20 Zenity alternatives
Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.
- - Zenity is the most popular Linux alternative to MessagePop.
- - Zenity is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MessagePop.
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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.
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Yad
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Free • Open Source
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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Yad Features
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.
easybashgui
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Free • Open Source
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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easybashgui Features
1. Command line interfaceeasybashgui either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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KDialog
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
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
whiptail
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
20 whiptail alternatives
display dialog boxes from shell scripts.
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whiptail Features
1. Command line interfacewhiptail either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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FP-QUI
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Free • Open Source
Windows
2 FP-QUI alternatives
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.
- - FP-QUI is the most popular Windows alternative to MessagePop.
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FP-QUI Features
1. Command line interfaceFP-QUI either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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xmessage
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
13 xmessage alternatives
display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).
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xmessage Features
1. Command line interfacexmessage either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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gxmessage
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Free • Open Source
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Windows
Linux
12 gxmessage alternatives
a GTK-based xmessage clone.
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gxmessage Features
1. Command line interfacegxmessage either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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dialog
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Free • Open Source
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Windows
Linux
21 dialog alternatives
display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.
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dialog Features
1. Command line interfacedialog either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Batch MessageBox
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Free • Open Source
Windows
6 Batch MessageBox alternatives
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.).
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Batch MessageBox Features
1. Command line interfaceBatch MessageBox either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableBatch MessageBox can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
CocoaDialog
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Free • Open Source
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Mac
21 CocoaDialog alternatives
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...
- - CocoaDialog is the most popular Mac alternative to MessagePop.
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CocoaDialog Features
1. Command line interfaceCocoaDialog either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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9menu
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
14 9menu alternatives
create a menu to run commands.
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9menu Features
1. Command line interface9menu either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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