kf6options(7)

kf6options7

Common commandline options for all applications based on kde frameworks 6

Usage

KDE application [-h, --help] [-v, --version] [--author] [--license] [--desktopfile file name]

Options

The following options apply to all KDE applications:

-h --help

This lists the options available at the command line.

-v --version

Lists version information for KDE application.

--author

Lists KDE application authors in the terminal window.

--license

Shows license information.

--desktopfile file name

The base file name of the desktop entry for this application.

This is in particular useful for wrapper applications and applications having in general multiple desktop files. Thus each desktop file can put its own name into the exec command.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie).

  1. 13–Arch

Authors

Man page originally written by Lauri Watts <[email protected]> for kdelibs4

Updated to Frameworks 5 by Burkhard Lück <[email protected]>

Author

Lauri Watts <[email protected]>

Author.

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