Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.


easybashgui is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to easybashgui for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Python apps. The best easybashgui alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like easybashgui are Modern Message Box Generator, Yad, wxFormBuilder and wxDev-C++.
Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.


Generates a customizable "Task Dialog" box - a more modern version of the old Windows message box.'



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.


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...


wxDev-C++ is an extension of Bloodshed Dev-C++ by Colin Laplace et. al. This program helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer.

wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. At the moment it can generate Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML resources) code.




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.


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.

