Yad Alternatives

yad reviews and mentions

• Help me understand the possibilities of Bash (best uses, etc)
  2 projects | /r/bash | 3 May 2023

  Aside from the obvious uses - command line scripts - you can also do quite a bit with the GUI. Check out Yad for bash script GUI. X11 related tools like wmctrl, xdotool allow you to create spectacular scripts. I write and use numerous dynamic menus created with bash + jgmenu.

• I saw somewhere a program that transformed every terminal command into GUI. Someone know it?
  2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 6 Jan 2023

  Are you referring to yad?

• How do you actually install steamtinkerlaunch? It requires the YAD dependency and I can’t figure out how to install it.
  1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 4 Jan 2023

  git clone https://github.com/v1cont/yad.git yad-dialog-code

• What are some useful cli tools that arent popular?
  23 projects | /r/commandline | 4 Jul 2022

  yad - Program allows you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from command line or shell scripts. YAD depends on GTK+ only.

• What are the tools that improve your workflow by a lot?
  7 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 17 Apr 2022

  yad pushing your shell scripts to the next level via user inputs. For example i wrote a small script which lets me select an environment and an app and the url+port is written into the clipboard.

• Most feature rich file manager?
  3 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 13 Feb 2022

  I make a lot of use of yad (which I think is in the standard repository) to give a GUI-like feel to my scripts. yad is a significant advance over zenity.

• Right-click menu
  1 project | /r/swaywm | 4 Dec 2021

  make a binding on an empty workspace that calls a yad script at the cursor

• Script for dialog box asking if I want too launch programs on the weekend
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 4 Nov 2021

  You might want to look at yad to add a GUI dialogue box to your script. Something like:

• Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2021

  I like yad[0] for this. For example, I use it to present a GUI color picker to change/insert colors in Vim (via a plugin called vCoolor[1]). I also use it in some i3/sway scripts that need user input or to show a progress bar.

  [0]: https://github.com/v1cont/yad

  [1]: https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim

• how to build linux apps with GUI?
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 10 Oct 2021

  zenity should be a simple start https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity (and apparently there is a fork too https://github.com/v1cont/yad but haven't tried it)

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