DRUMSTICK-DRUMGRID(1)

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version 2.11.1 · 6 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

🥁 drumstick-drumgrid — your drum-box bestie 🥁

okay so welcome to the DRUMSTICK-DRUMGRID(1) manual page, bestie — it lives in the User Commands section and it's giving full-on drum-machine main character energy. ✨

💖 NAME 💖

drumstick-drumgrid — a Drumstick utility emulating a drum box. 🥁💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

drumstick-drumgrid [Standard options...]

that's literally it — the standard options go in the brackets, iykyk. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this program is a Drumstick example and utility program, periodt. you can use it to create and play drum patterns — no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🔥

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

the following arguments are optional:

  • -p|--port= client:port — MIDI Destination Port. that's where the MIDI is headed, bestie. 🎯
  • -h|--help — prints a summary of the command-line options and exit. your little "help me understand" icon. 🙈
  • -v|--version — prints the program version number and exit. version check slay. 👑
  • -style= style — sets the application GUI style. possible values are motif, windows, and platinum. if you compiled Qt with additional styles or have additional styles as plugins, these will be available to the -style command line option. cute options fr fr. 🎨
  • -stylesheet= stylesheet — sets the application styleSheet. the value must be a path to a file that contains the Style Sheet.
Note, bestie: relative URLs in the Style Sheet file are relative to the Style Sheet file's path. 💖
  • -session= session — restores the application from an earlier session. it's giving "we've been here before" energy. 🌀
  • -widgetcount — prints debug message at the end about number of widgets left undestroyed and maximum number of widgets existed at the same time. widget lore. 🧚
  • -reverse — sets the application's layout direction to Qt::RightToLeft. mirror-mode era. 🪞
  • -graphicssystem — sets the backend to be used for on-screen widgets and QPixmaps. available options are raster and opengl. pick your backend vibe. 🖥️
  • -display display — sets the X display (default is $DISPLAY). 🌈
  • -geometry geometry — sets the client geometry of the first window that is shown. window placement, but make it intentional. 📐
  • -fn|-font font — defines the application font. the font should be specified using an X logical font description. font moment. 🔤
  • -bg|-background color — sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated). background slay. 🎀
  • -fg|-foreground color — sets the default foreground color. foreground slay. 💅
  • -btn|-button color — sets the default button color. button era. 🔘
  • -name name — sets the application name. name your app, bestie. 🏷️
  • -title title — sets the application title. title glow-up. ✨
  • -visual TrueColor — forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display. 💎
  • -ncols count — limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification. if count is 216 then a 6x6x6 color cube is used (i.e. 6 levels of red, 6 of green, and 6 of blue); for other values, a cube approximately proportional to a 2x3x1 cube is used. color-cube math, lowkey iconic. 🧮
  • -cmap — causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display. private colormap? main character behavior. 👑
  • -im — sets the input method server (equivalent to setting the XMODIFIERS environment variable). input method server vibes. ⌨️
  • -inputstyle — defines how the input is inserted into the given widget, e.g., onTheSpot makes the input appear directly in the widget, while overTheSpot makes the input appear in a box floating over the widget and is not inserted until the editing is done. input-style realness. 🫧

📜 LICENSE 📜

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, considering as source code any files used for the production of this manpage. that's the license, bestie — respect it. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

cross-links, because we love a connected ecosystem. 🫶

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <plcl@users.sf.net> — author icon. 👑

Copyright © 2010-2024 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas.

mwah 💋 — this page is from drumstick 2.11.1, dated August 22, 2026, and it ate, no crumbs. 🎀✨

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