Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.
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MessagePop Alternatives
MessagePop is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MessagePop for Linux, Windows, Mac, Python and Qt. The best MessagePop alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MessagePop are Modern Message Box Generator, Yad, KDialog and easybashgui.
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- 22 Zenity alternatives
Generates a customizable "Task Dialog" box - a more modern version of the old Windows message box.'
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Windows
22 Yad alternativesYad (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.
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
FP-Notifier has been renamed to FP-QUI.
FP-QUI generates popup-windows that provide users a quick and ubiquitous interface to practically any application that supports command line instructions or named pipes.
Apart from showing a text message, one may, for instance, define onC.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
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...
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