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
andno
button, returning0
and1
, respectively:kdialog --yesno "{{message}}"
- Open a warning dialog with a
yes
,no
, andcancel
button, returning0
,1
, or2
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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