---
name: "gtkdialog"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gtkdialog"
version: "2:0.7.20-4"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gtkdialog"
---

# gtkdialog(1)

GUI-creation command-line utility based on GTK+ library

## NAME

gtkdialog — GUI-creation command-line utility based on GTK+ library

## SYNOPSIS

**gtkdialog** \[options\]

## DESCRIPTION

**gtkdialog** is a GUI-creation utility  based on GTK+ libreries that can be used with an arbitrary interpreter.

Using gtkdialog you can describe a graphical user  interface in a simple XML-like language, and use it with any interpreter that  supports either files, standard I/O, or environment variables.

For more information on the syntax of gtkdialog programs, please see   the examples provided in /usr/share/doc/gtkdialog/examples or run   **info gtkdialog**.

This manual page was written for the **Debian GNU/Linux** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Print usage information and exit.

- **-v, --version**

  Print version information and exit.

- **-p, --program \[VARNAME\]**

  Read the program from the environment variable VARNAME.

- **-s, --stdin**

  Read the program from the standard input.

- **-f \[filename\]**

  Read the program from a file.

- **-i \[filename\]**

  Include file as bash script.

- **-d, --debug**

  Run in debug mode.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Fabio Tranchitella \<kobold@kobold.it\> for  the **Debian GNU/Linux** system (but may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify  this document under the terms of the GNU Free  Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version  published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant  Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy  of the license can be found under  **/usr/share/common-licenses/FDL**.

## SEE ALSO

gtklauncher (1)