Gtk-Stream AlternativesShells and other similar apps like Gtk-Stream

Gtk-Stream is described as 'Tool that takes on its standard input a XML description of what your application should do (spawn a window, add/remove a widget, change a property, add a stylesheet, ...), while outputting events on its standard output' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are nine alternatives to Gtk-Stream for Linux, Mac and Windows. The best Gtk-Stream alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gtk-Stream are Yad, wxFormBuilder, KDialog and easybashgui.

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  1. Zenity icon

    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

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    • Linux
    Zenity screenshot 1
     
  2. Yad icon

    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.

    22 Yad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Sample dialog with tabs from YAD's SourceForge.
     
  4. wxFormBuilder icon

    wxFormBuilder

     9 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    wxFormBuilder screenshot 1
     
  5. KDialog icon

    KDialog

     4 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    KDialog screenshot 1
     
  6. easybashgui icon

    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...

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  7. whiptail

     2 likes

    display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. wxGlade icon

    wxGlade

     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    A sample session
     
  10. wxSmith icon

    wxSmith

     2 likes

    wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Code::Blocks
    wxSmith screenshot 1
     

  11. Gtkdialog

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    Gtkdialog is a small utility for fast and easy GUI building. It can be used to create dialog boxes for almost any interpreted and compiled programs which is a very attractive feature since the developer does not have to learn various GUI languages for the miscellaneous...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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