GNUMERIC(1)

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✨ GNUMERIC ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for gnumeric — the manual is literally called GNUMERIC(1) and it's from the GNOME fam 💅. buckle up, because this spreadsheet app is lowkey iconic and we're about to go through everything.

🌸 NAME 🌸

gnumeric — a GNOME spreadsheet application. that's it, that's the vibe. a whole spreadsheet situation brought to you by the GNOME project 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gnumeric [OPTIONS] [files ... ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like… Gnumeric is a powerful spreadsheet program, created by the GNOME project, and it fully intends to compete with those commercial spreadsheets out there by becoming fully compatible with Microsoft Excel(TM) and by supporting most popular spreadsheet file formats — think Excel(TM), Lotus 1-2-3(TM), Applix(TM), Sylk(TM), XBase(TM), Oleo(TM), and OpenOffice.org formats. no cap, it opens basically everything 👑

It also supports advanced calculations using statistical, financial, and database access functions. plotting data? yes bestie, that's supported through an incomplete but powerful plotting system. there's a plugin system that extends gnumeric — for instance, enabling the export of data to the LaTeX \longtable format. plugins can be used to define custom functionality. a rudimentary scripting API for the Python language exists and will be extended in the near future. and since gnumeric is free software, gnumeric can also be extended directly at the source code level by any competent programmer. like, the audacity and the generosity? we love to see it 😭

The program can be started from the command line as gnumeric or from one of the menus provided by the underlying platform. when started on the command line, gnumeric may be followed by the options listed below and possibly the names of files in various spreadsheet formats which will then be opened immediately. for instance, this command:

gnumeric myfile.gnumeric

will launch gnumeric and open the file called "myfile.gnumeric". the default gnumeric file format is in extensible markup language (XML) which subsequently has been compressed with gzip. it's giving organized. it's giving efficient. we stan 🎀

⭐ USER OPTIONS ⭐

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash (-) and longer options starting with two dashes (--). classic, iconic, no notes 💅

🎀 Help options 🎀

  • -?, --help — Show help message. your little cry for guidance, answered 🫶
  • --usage — Displays a brief usage message. the tl;dr version, for when you're in a rush 🏃‍♀️

🍓 Gnumeric options 🍓

  • -v, --version — Displays the version number of the installed instance of gnumeric. so you know exactly which queen you're working with 👑
  • --no-splash — Start gnumeric without showing the splash screen. the splash screen is normally shown if loading files takes too long. so if you're impatient (same), this one's for you 🙈

🌈 Options for window placement 🌈

  • -g, --geometry=WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF — Set the size and position of the first window. all units are in pixels. the X offset is from the left hand side of the screen, the Y offset is from the top of the screen. for example, -g=800x600+20+30 will open a gnumeric window 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels high, with the left edge of gnumeric 20 pixels from the left of the screen and the top edge of gnumeric 30 pixels from the top of the screen. it's giving custom placement, it's giving main character energy 🦋
  • --display=DISPLAY — X display to use, where DISPLAY has the form machinename:Xdisplay.Screen. note that the machine displaying gnumeric must have granted the machine running gnumeric the right to display (see xhost). permission check bestie, don't forget it 🔥
  • --screen=SCREEN — X screen to use, a more compact form of the functionality described above. short and sweet, we love a streamlined queen ✨

💜 ADVANCED OPTIONS 💜

🧚 GNOME options 🧚

  • --disable-sound — Disable sound server usage. silence is golden 🔇
  • --enable-sound — Enable sound server usage. turn it up 🔊
  • --espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT — Host:port on which the sound server to use is running. very specific, very demure 💅
  • --disable-crash-dialog — Disable the bug submission dialog which appears if Gnumeric crashes. so you can crash in peace, unbothered, moisturized 💀

🌸 GTK options 🌸

  • --gdk-debug=FLAGS — Gdk debugging flags to set. for the debugging girlies 🐛
  • --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS — Gdk debugging flags to unset. un-debugging, equally valid 🫶
  • --sync — Make X calls synchronous. synced up, aligned, periodt ⭐
  • --name=NAME — Program name as used by the window manager. name yourself, iconically 💖
  • --class=CLASS — Program class as used by the window manager. classy behavior only 🎀
  • --gxid_host=HOST — The host on which to contact the gxid daemon. this overrides the GXID_HOST environment variable. this option is only available if GTK+ has been configured with --gdk-target=x11. very specific technical moment, but we keep the details fr fr 🔍
  • --gxid_port=PORT — The port for the connection to gxid. this overrides the GXID_PORT environment variable. this option is only available if GTK+ has been configured with --gdk-target=x11. same energy, different port 👑
  • --gtk-debug=FLAGS — Gtk+ debugging flags to set. more debugging flags, because we can 🐛
  • --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS — Gtk+ debugging flags to unset. and to unset ✨
  • --g-fatal-warnings — Make all warnings fatal. dramatic? maybe. accurate? yes. proceed with caution bestie, this one does NOT play 😭
  • --gtk-module=MODULE — Load an additional Gtk module. load her up 🧚

🦋 Session management options 🦋

  • --sm-client-id=ID — Specify session management ID. your session, your ID, your rules 💅
  • --sm-config-prefix=PREFIX — Specify prefix of saved configuration. a little prefix moment 🌸
  • --sm-disable — Disable connection to session manager. disconnect, live your truth 🫶

🔥 VERSION 🔥

This manual page describes gnumeric version 1.8. so that's the version we're talking about here, bestie. noted and filed 📝

💀 BUGS 💀

For the list of known gnumeric bugs, or to report new ones please visit https://gitlab.gnome.org. yes, that's the place. go forth and file 🐛

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

👑 LICENSE 👑

gnumeric is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 2 or 3. for information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page ⟨http://www.gnu.org/⟩. legal queen behavior, we respect it 💜

The copyright on the gnumeric software and source code is held by the individual authors as is documented in the source code. individual authors, individual rights, documented properly ✨

🌸 AUTHORS 🌸

💖 Gnumeric 💖

  • Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>
  • Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org>
  • Morten Welinder <terra@gnome.org>

— and many others. for a more complete list, see the About dialog. the whole crew, the whole fam 🫶

🦋 This manual page 🦋

  • Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
  • Adrian Custer <acuster@gnome.org>

and that's the whole thing, bestie 💅 this page describes gnumeric version 1.8 and the original footer is dated 2009-02-08 — so yes, it's a certified classic, a vintage icon, and you're now fully caught up. slay, go open a spreadsheet 🎀✨

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