xmessage AlternativesShells and other similar apps like xmessage

xmessage is described as 'Display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo)' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to xmessage for Linux, Windows, Mac, Python and Qt. The best xmessage alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like xmessage 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 xmessage.

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

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

    20 Modern Message Box Generator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    • Modern Message Box Generator is Free and Open Sourcexmessage is also Free and Open Source
  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).

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • 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. gxmessage icon
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    a GTK-based xmessage clone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. MessagePop icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Does not work with Linux, which xmessage only works with.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • MessagePop is Free and Proprietaryxmessage is Free and Open Source
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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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    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 xmessage.

    • CocoaDialog is Free and Open Sourcexmessage is also Free and Open Source
  11. PyDialog icon
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    My problem was that the KDialog code is still not ported to Qt5 and it depends on various Qt4/KDE4 components. The kdialog has big dependency sizes so we made an alternate dialogs like kdialog switches, options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Qt
     
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    create a menu to run commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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