GDK-PIXBUF-QUERY-LOADERS-64(1)

🎀 GDK-PIXBUF-QUERY-LOADERS() 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

okay so gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders is a GdkPixbuf loader registration utility 💖 it's the thing that keeps track of which loaders gdk-pixbuf can actually use 🦋

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders [OPTIONS...] [MODULES..]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie, this tool is literally so iconic 😭 it gathers info about the loadable modules for gdk-pixbuf and then writes it either to the default cache file location or to stdout. the way it just does the whole job for you 💀✨

if you call it with no arguments, it goes hunting for modules in the gdk-pixbuf loader directory 🧚

if you call it with arguments, it only looks for the modules you name 🎯 and those arguments can be absolute or relative paths, so you do you 🌈

ngl the important bit: the output normally gets written to $libdir/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache. that's where gdk-pixbuf looks for it by default 👑 but if you send it somewhere else, you'll need to set the environment variable GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE so gdk-pixbuf knows where to find the file 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --update-cache — instead of printing everything to the standard output, it writes the output to the default cache location. main character energy 👑

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

the environment variable GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR lets you point to a different loader directory 🍓 if you don't set it, the default gdk-pixbuf loader directory is LIBDIR/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/VERSION/loaders, where:

• LIBDIR is the libdir that was used when gdk-pixbuf got built 🏗️
• VERSION is the ABI version for gdk-pixbuf loaders 🦋

that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 it's giving tidy little footer energy with GDK-PIXBUF-QUERY-LOADERS() 💜 now go be iconic with your loaders 💅✨