9menu AlternativesShells and other similar apps like 9menu

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   dmenu

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   dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

   86 dmenu alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Application Launcher
   • File Search

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Positive comment by jemi · Jun 25, 2020

   Highly regarded, simple menuing system, with lots of patches available for customization.

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   • dmenu is Free and Open Source9menu is also Free and Open Source
   • dmenu is an Application Launchers 9menu is a Shell
   • dmenu is Lightweight9menu is not according to our users
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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.

   22 Zenity alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Shell

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • United States

   

   

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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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Shell

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Global

   

   

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   KDialog

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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

   Application type

   • Shell

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Germany
   • EU

   

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   xlunch

    1 like

   Welcome! This is xlunch, the coolest graphical app launcher for Xorg/X11. It requires only pure Xlib and Imlib2. It allows you to run programs, commands, or simply select something out of a list using your mouse, keyboard, or both!

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Application Launcher

   Origin

   • Czechia
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Czechia
   • EU

   

   

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   whiptail

    2 likes

   display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

   22 whiptail alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Shell

   Platforms

   • Linux

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   easybashgui

    1 like

   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 (BSD-3-Clause)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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    dialog

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Shell

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

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    MessagePop

     1 like

    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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    xmessage

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Shell

    Platforms

    • Linux

    X

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    gxmessage

     1 like

    a GTK-based xmessage clone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Shell

    Origin

    • United Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

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    CocoaDialog

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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

    Application type

    • Shell

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac

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