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General Options

--help Show help about options

--help-qt

Show Qt specific options

--help-kde

Show KDE specific options

--help-all

Show all options

--author

Show author information

-v, --version

Show version information

--license

Show license information

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KDE options

--caption caption

Use caption as name in the titlebar.

--icon icon

Use icon as the application icon. icon is the name of the icon, which can either be an absolute filename path, or otherwise the icon is sought for in places according to the normal KDE rules.

--miniicon icon

Use icon as the icon in the titlebar. icon is the filename of the icon, according to the same rules as for the --icon parameter.

--config filename

Use an alternative configuration file, instead of the default, which is normally located in /usr/share/config or in $KDEHOME/share/config

--dcopserver server

Set the address of the DCOP server to attach to.

--nocrashhandler

Disable crash handler, to get core dumps. This option has the same effect as definiting the environment variable KDE_DEBUG.

--waitforwm

Waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager.

--style style

sets the application GUI style.

--geometry geometry

sets the client geometry of the main widget. The geometry parameter follows the normal X convention for geometry, which is on the form:

[widthxheight][{+-}xpos{+-}ypos]

Where width and height gives the desired minimum width and height, of the main application window. Both in pixels. A value of 0 specifies the default size. The optional xpos and ypos specifies the x,y-position that which is desired for the application window. Specifying negative values for x or y implies that the x or y position is to be measured from the left or bottom screen edge, instead of as in the normal case, with positive values, from the left and top edges.

Qt options

--cmap

Causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display.

--ncols count

Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification.

--nograb

Tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard.

--dograb

Running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, use -dograb to override.

--sync

switches to synchronous mode for debugging.

--fn, --font fontname

Defines the default application font. The fontname should be in the X logical font name description format XLFD. For a full description of the format see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/xlfd.TXT Note that the application might override the font specified with its own font.

--bg, --background color

Sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated).

--fg, --foreground color

Sets the default foreground color.

--btn,--button color

Sets the default button color.

--name name

Sets the application name.

--title title

Sets the application title. This option might, or might not appear in the title bar caption, depending on the application. To change the caption, use the --caption option instead.

--visual TrueColor

Forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display.

--inputstyle inputstyle

Sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespotandroot.

--im XIM-server

Set XIM server.

--noxim

Disable XIM.

--reverse

Mirror reverses the whole layout of widgets. This means that menus will go in the opposite direction, the scroll bar will be on the opposite side, etc. For a normal western layout that means that menus and tool bars will go from the right edge to the left, the vertical scroll bar will be on the left side and so on.

standard KDE environment variables

KDE_LANG

Language locale setting to use. This option makes it possible to set another language environment for a program than what is the default. The correct language pack for this language has to be installed for this option to work. The default language when there is none set is en_US. When deciding upon a language, the following resources are looked up, in order: KDE_LANG, configuration file, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL, LANG.

KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES

Assume that all filenames are in UTF-8 format regardless of the current language setting. Otherwise the filename format is defined by the language.

KDE_MULTIHEAD

If this variable has the value true multihead multiple display mode is enabled. The KDE display will be shared over more than one screen.

DISPLAY

Specifies the X display to run KDE on.

KDESYCOCA

Specifies and alternative path for the ksycoca KDE system configuration cache file. The default path is /tmp/kde-$USER/ksycoca

DCOPSERVER

Specifies an alternative path for the DCOP server file. The default file is $HOME/.DCOPserver_hostname_displayname

SESSION_MANAGER

The session manager to use. This option is set automatically by KDE and is a network path to the session manager socket.

HOME

Path to the home directory for the current user.

KDEHOME

The KDE per-user setting directory. Default if not specified is $HOME/.kde