kdialog

Show KDE dialog boxes from within shell scripts. More information: <https://develop.kde.org/deploy/kdialog/>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/kdialog.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install kdialog
Ubuntu
apt-get install kdialog
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S kdialog
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install kdialog
CentOS
yum install kdialog
Fedora
dnf install kdialog
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kdialog
Raspbian
apt-get install kdialog
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/kdialog

Show KDE dialog boxes from within shell scripts. More information: <https://develop.kde.org/deploy/kdialog/>.

  • Open a dialog box displaying a specific message:
    kdialog --msgbox "message" "optional_detailed_message"
  • Open a question dialog with a `yes` and `no` button, returning `0` and `1`, respectively:
    kdialog --yesno "message"
  • Open a warning dialog with a `yes`, `no`, and `cancel` button, returning `0`, `1`, or `2` respectively:
    kdialog --warningyesnocancel "message"
  • Open an input dialog box and print the input to `stdout` when `OK` is pressed:
    kdialog --inputbox "message" "optional_default_text"
  • Open a dialog to prompt for a specific password and print it to `stdout`:
    kdialog --password "message"
  • Open a dialog containing a specific dropdown menu and print the selected item to `stdout`:
    kdialog --combobx "message" "item1" "item2" "..."
  • Open a file chooser dialog and print the selected file's path to `stdout`:
    kdialog --getopenfilename
  • Open a progressbar dialog and print a DBUS reference for communication to `stdout`:
    kdialog --progressbar "message"

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