CHEESE(1)

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version 44.1 · 8 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing

💖 CHEESE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the cheese manual page, part of the User Commands crew, and honestly? it's giving iconic webcam energy 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

cheese — the tool that takes pictures and videos from your webcam 📸

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cheese [option...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, cheese uses your webcam to take photos AND videos, applies fancy special effects on top, and then lets you share the fun with literally everyone 💅 it was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code, led by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx — yeah, we're old money, we're legacy 👑

under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply those fancy effects to your photos and videos. with Cheese it's easy to take photos of you, your friends, your pets, or whatever you want, and then share them with others 🫶

and after the Summer of Code success, development just kept going, and — not to be dramatic — they are still looking for people with nice ideas and patches ;) so if you got ideas, the door is open, no cap 💜

🌈 INVOCATION 🌈

cheese takes a list of options as arguments. simple as that ✨

🎀 Options 🎀

  • --wide, -w — starts you off in wide mode, with the thumbnails chillin' to the right of the video preview 👀
  • --device=DEVICE, -d DEVICE — use the supplied DEVICE as the video capture device 📹
  • --fullscreen, -f — start in fullscreen mode, main character energy, full screen, no distractions 🔥
  • --help, -h — print a brief help message and exit, your lil cheat sheet 🥺
  • --version, -v — print the version and exit, just so you know who you're dealing with 💁

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Cheese help manual 📖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

cheese was written by Daniel G. Siegel <dgsiegel@gnome.org>, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap@haitsma.org>, Filippo Argiolas <fargiolas@gnome.org>, Yuvaraj Pandian T <yuvipanda@yuvi.in>, Luciana Fujii Pontello <luciana@fujii.eti.br> and David King <amigadave@amigadave.com> 💖

this manual page was written by David King <amigadave@amigadave.com> ✍️

and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 this was Cheese 44.1, dated 05/03/2025 — slay, take a pic, tag me, bye 💅✨

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