xdialog Alternatives

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, Python and Qt. The best alternative is NirCmd, which is free. Other great apps like xdialog are Zenity, easybashgui, Yad and KDialog.

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NirCmd
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9 alternatives to NirCmd
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...
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1. Command line interfaceNirCmd either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Theyre nothing alike and technically target different operating systems for different use-cases
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Zenity
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Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.
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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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easybashgui
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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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1. Command line interfaceeasybashgui either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Yad
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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.
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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.
KDialog
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21 alternatives to KDialog
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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1. Command line interfaceKDialog either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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wxFormBuilder
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19 alternatives to wxFormBuilder
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...
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whiptail
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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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VisualWX
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16 alternatives to VisualWX
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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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.
dialog
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21 alternatives to dialog
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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MessagePop
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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.
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MessagePop Features
1. Command line interfaceMessagePop either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableMessagePop can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.