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kdialog — Show KDE dialog boxes from within shell scripts. More information: <https://develop.kde.org/docs/adm

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Problem

How to use the kdialog command: Show KDE dialog boxes from within shell scripts. More information: <https://develop.kde.org/docs/administration/kdialog/>.

Solution

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 --combobox "{{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}}"

Code Snippets

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}}"

Context

tldr-pages: linux/kdialog

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