xpad(1)

xpad1

A sticky notes application for gtk+ 3.0

Usage

xpad [OPTIONS]

Overview

A sticky notes application for GTK+ 3.0.

Options

-v, --version

Display version information.

-?, --help

Display usage information.

-h, --hide

Hides existing pads on startup. All pads will be hidden, so unless the tray icon is present or you also specify --new, xpad will exit immediately.

-s, --show

Shows existing pads on startup.

-t, --toggle

Toggle between showing and hiding each of the existing pads on startup.

-n, --new

Open a new pad.

-N, --no-new

Prevents xpad from making a new pad on startup. A new pad would be created if xpad is already running and is run again or if there are no old pads to load.

-f, --new-from-file=FILE

Create a new pad with the contents of a file

-q, --quit

Closes all open pads and terminates the xpad processes.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1–5.0
  2. 6.0–8
  3. 9–Arch

--hide since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --new-from-file since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --show since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --toggle since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -? since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -f since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -h since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -s since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -t since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

--hide-old until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -H until Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Author

Written by Michael Terry <[email protected]> and Arthur Borsboom <[email protected]>.

From xpad 6.0.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.