xournalpp(1)

Overview

Usage:

: com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp [OPTION???]

Help Options:

-h, --help: Show help options

--help-all: Show all help options

--help-gapplication: Show GApplication options

--help-gtk: Show GTK+ Options

--help-export: Display advanced export options

Application Options:

-n, --page=N: Jump to Page (first Page: 1)

--version: Get version of xournalpp

--disable-audio: Disable audio for this session

--attach-mode: Open PDF in attach mode Ignored if no PDF file is specified.

-s, --save=XOPPFILE: Save xopp-file with the background PDF specified as FILE

--display=DISPLAY: X display to use

-p, --create-pdf=PDFFILE: Export FILE as PDF

-i, --create-img=IMGFILE: Export FILE as image files (one per page) Guess the output format from the extension of IMGFILE Supported formats: .png, .svg

Website

Please visit our website https://xournalpp.github.io to learn about how to configure and use Xournal++ and where you can get help!

Plugins

In order to use plugins you must have Lua 5.3 installed. A detailed description of how to write and use plugins is provided on the website.

Environment

A custom "locale" directory for localization files can be specified via the enivronment variable $TEXTDOMAINDIR.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

--attach-mode since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --disable-audio since Debian 13 (Trixie); --save since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -s since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.