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Dialog Tools

Textmode Tools

Dialog

ncurses textmode version.

Homepage: https://www.invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html

Newt

Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Homepage: https://pagure.io/newt

GUI Tools

Zenity

Gnome or GTK version. Homepage: Gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity

Yad

Fork of Zenity with more parameters and features.

KDialog

KDE or Plasma version of the dialog utility:

Homepage: https://develop.kde.org/docs/administration/kdialog/
GitHub: https://github.com/KDE/kdialog

kdialog --title "YesNoCancel warning dialog" --warningyesnocancel \
"About to exit.\nDo you want to save the file first?"

Website and Examples