kdialog

Show KDE dialog boxes from within shell scripts. More information: https://develop.kde.org/docs/administration/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 D-Bus reference for communication to stdout:

kdialog --progressbar "message"