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YAD: display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line

Published on: 2025-06-14 08:23:12

YAD - (Yet Another Dialog) is a simple tool for developing Graphical User Interfaces. It will integrate with bash. Type yad --help-all in a terminal to see all command line help. Unfortunately this help does not provide enough information on how to use yad to it’s full potential. This is why i wrote this guide. Most of the information is gathered from YAD help and YAD man page and some examples i have found on internet. The guide is splited in several pages so it should be easier to find what you are looking for. If examples used in this guide is from other sources it will be given at the examples. All screenshots is made by me on Salix OS 15.0 with Qogir icon theme and Salix Gtk3 theme. The Qogir icon theme has its own yad icon and thats why my screenshots don’t have the default YAD icon. All examples are tested with YAD 12.3 on Salix OS 15.0, However, I have not tested all available options. I hope you find it usefull. ... Read full article.