Zenity Alternatives

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

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VisualWX
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Windows
Linux
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Good alternative?Is VisualWX a good alternative to Zenity?
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gxmessage
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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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Good alternative?Is gxmessage a good alternative to Zenity?
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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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Good alternative?Is CocoaDialog a good alternative to Zenity?

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CocoaDialog vs Zenity Comments
Positive comment by Guest · May 11, 2017
It provides most of the same features of Zenity for Mac users
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CocoaDialog is Free and Open SourceZenity is also Free and Open Source
XRCed
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XRCed is a simple resource editor for wxWidgets/wxPython GUI development which supports creating and editing files in XRC format It is written in Python and uses wxPython GUI toolkit.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Good alternative?Is XRCed a good alternative to Zenity?
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xdialog
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Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Windows
Linux
X
Good alternative?Is xdialog a good alternative to Zenity?
DialogBlocks
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Anthemion DialogBlocks is a sizer-based resource editor that quickly gets you creating professional-looking dialogs, wizards and frames for deployment on Windows, Linux, Mac or any other supported wxWidgets platform.
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
United Kingdom
Good alternative?Is DialogBlocks a good alternative to Zenity?
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9menu
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create a menu to run commands.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Linux
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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
Shell
Platforms
Linux
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Good alternative?Is Gtkdialog a good alternative to Zenity?
PyDialog
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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
Origin
Hungary
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Python
Qt
Hungary
EU
Good alternative?Is PyDialog a good alternative to Zenity?
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Gtk-Stream
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Gtk-Stream is a 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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Linux
Mac
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Good alternative?Is Gtk-Stream a good alternative to Zenity?