gucharmap(1)

πŸ’– gucharmap(1) β€” the Unicode character picker & font browser, bestie edition πŸ’–

General Commands Manual ✨ okay so this is the glow-up of a classic, and I'm obsessed πŸŽ€


🌸 NAME 🌸

gucharmap β€” Unicode character picker and font browser πŸ’…


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gucharmap [OPTION...]

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

okay so picture this: every single Unicode character just… sitting there, waiting for you. gucharmap lets you browse through all the available Unicode characters and categories for the fonts you've got installed, and then β€” and this is the best part β€” you can examine their detailed properties. πŸ”₯

it's giving encyclopedia but make it cute. it's giving font browser main character energy. no cap. πŸ‘‘


πŸŽ€ OPTIONS πŸŽ€

  • --font β€” the font you wanna start with, like for example 'Serif 27' πŸ–‹οΈβœ¨ yes queen, pick your vibe before you even open the thing
  • --display=DISPLAY β€” the X display to use πŸ–₯οΈπŸ’«

gucharmap also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options, so go off, bestie, you've got options (literally) 🫢


πŸ‘‘ AUTHORS πŸ‘‘

gucharmap was written by Noah Levitt <nlevitt@columbia.edu> and others. πŸ’–

this manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🌈 slay, honestly.


🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟


🫢 friendly reminder: when in doubt, hit that Help menu. iykyk.

GNOME 🧚 2007-05-05 πŸŽ€ and that's the whole page, bestie β€” go browse some characters, you absolute icon πŸ’œπŸŒΈπŸ’