kdialog Command Examples

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}}"