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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}}"