BUDGIE-CONTROL-CEN(1)

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💅 budgie-control-center — like, the whole manual, bestie

okay so this is budgie-control-center from section 1 of the manual (User Commands, iykyk) — the actual command that opens up your Budgie settings app. grab a snack, we're going through everything 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

budgie-control-center — configure Budgie settings. that's it, that's the vibe. it's the lil GUI that lets you poke at how your desktop behaves 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

budgie-control-center [OPTION...] [PANEL] [ARG...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

budgie-control-center is a graphical user interface to configure various aspects of Budgie. literally a window with buttons and sliders, no cap 💖

When you run it with no arguments, the shell displays the overview, which shows all the available configuration panels. the overview lets you open individual panels by clicking on them — iconic behavior honestly — and it also has a search entry so you can find panels by searching keywords. typey typey, panel appears ✨

It is also possible to specify a panel name as a commandline argument to go directly to that panel. main character energy: skipping the overview entirely. and individual panels may accept further arguments to specify which tab to open (for multi-tabbed panels) or which item to display (for panels with lists). fancy 💅

🫶 important note, bestie: budgie-control-center is not meant to expose each and every setting that is available. the settings that can be found here represent what is considered useful and commonly needed options. so for more exotic or uncommon options, you can look at gnome-tweak-tool or the gsettings commandline utility. that's where the deep lore lives 👑

👑 PANELS 👑

The following panel names can be specified:

  • background — the background panel lets you set your desktop background. wallpaper era 🌈
  • bluetooth — the bluetooth panel lets you configure your computer's Bluetooth adapter, and pair the computer with Bluetooth keyboards, phones, etc. peripheral slay 🔥
  • color — the color panel can calibrate monitors, web cams and printers for accurate color reproduction. so your colors are actually your colors 🎨
  • datetime — the datetime panel lets you set the timezone and time format.
⚠️ Some operations in this panel affect all user accounts on the computer and require privileges. be careful, ok? (the original says "privieges" and honestly, she's valid 💀)
  • display — the display panel configures the resolution and arrangement of monitors and laptop panels. Note that monitors can be rearranged by drag-and-drop, and you can change which monitor is your main display by dragging the black bar. yes, literally drag the little bar, it's giving tactile ✨
  • info-overview — the info-overview panel shows a general overview of the system configuration. It also lets you change the default applications for various tasks and the handling of removable media. the "who am I, what is this machine" panel 🧚
  • keyboard — the keyboard panel can change how the keyboard reacts to key presses and lets you change keyboard shortcuts or create custom shortcuts.

You can open this panel on a specific tab by passing typing or shortcuts as extra argument. pick your fighter 💅

  • mouse — the mouse panel can change how mice and touchpads react to user input. clicky clicky 🐭
  • network — the network panel provides a view of available network devices (wired, wireless or mobile) and their current configuration. It also provides a way to create new VPN connections and configure proxy settings.

You can open this panel on a specific dialog by passing create-wifi, connect-hidden-wifi, connect-3g, connect-8021x-wifi or show-device as extra argument. The last three parameters require an additional extra argument for the network object in the form /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0. yes, that path exactly, character for character, no typos bestie 😭

  • notifications — the notifications panel provides a way to control the display of notifications. peace and quiet mode 🔕
  • online-accounts — the online-accounts panel shows your configured online accounts and lets you add or remove accounts. account management era 💜
  • power — the power panel shows the fill level of batteries and can configure what happens when the computer is idle or runs out of battery. battery anxiety, but configurable 🍓
  • printers — the printers panel shows all known printers and their status. It is possible to inspect queued print jobs and add new printers.
⚠️ Some operations in this panel require privileges. tread lightly 🫶
  • privacy — the privacy panel allows one to control visible file usage history, temporary files, and name. your business stays your business 🙈
  • region — the region panel contains regional settings such as the display language, formatting for times, dates, numbers, and input sources. localization icon 🌍 (okay that's not an emoji from the list but you get it)
  • search — the search panel controls the results visible in the overview, and the files and folders to be indexed. curate your search results like a playlist 💖
  • screen — the screen panel contains settings that control the screen brightness and screen lock behavior. dim it, lock it, slay it ✨
  • sharing — the sharing panel contains settings that control what is shared over the network. share wisely bestie 🌸
  • sound — the sound panel shows all known sound devices and their configuration, including volume and balance settings.

You can open this panel on a specific tab by passing output, input, hardware, effects or applications as extra argument. five tabs, five vibes 🎧

  • universal-access — the universal-access panel contains settings for accessible technologies such as the screen reader, magnifier, screen keyboard and AccessX options. accessibility is not optional, it's essential 💜
  • user-accounts — the user-accounts panel shows all user accounts that exist on the computer and allows one to change them in some ways, such as changing the user name, password or permissions. It also allows one to create or remove accounts.
⚠️ Some operations in this panel require privileges. extremely important, do not skip 👑
  • wacom — the wacom panel shows connected Wacom graphics tablets and lets you calibrate and configure such devices. (yes, the original really does start with a lowercase "the" — we stan the lowercase t 🎀)

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • -?, --help — Prints a short help text and exits. the "help me help you" flag 🫶
  • --version — Prints the program version and exits. identity check 💅
  • -v, --verbose — Enables verbose mode. it's giving "tell me everything" 😭
  • -l, --list — Lists the available panels and exits. the guest list for the panel party 👑
  • -o, --overview — Opens the overview. the main stage, where it all begins ✨
  • -s term, --search term — Sets the following search term. type your little word and let the search do the rest 🔍

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. so if you see 0, we ate. if not... we did not eat 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

gsettings(1) — the deep-magic cousin, go say hi 🦋

and that's the whole page, bestie, no skips, no summaries, every flag accounted for 🫶

mwah 💋 — brought to you by the Budgie manual, BUDGIE-CONTROL-CEN(1), same source and section as ever, just with way more glitter. go configure something iconic ✨🎀💖

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