KMETRONOME(1)

✨ KMETRONOME — the manual page, bestie edition ✨

okay so you opened the man page for kmetronome, which lives in section 1 of the manual, and honestly? you're about to have a great time. 💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

kmetronome — the Drumstick MIDI metronome, and it's built on the ALSA sequencer with a QT user interface. that's the whole vibe. periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kmetronome [options]

literally just run it with whatever options you want, queen. that's it.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so Drumstick Metronome is a MIDI metronome with a QT interface, and it's based on the ALSA sequencer. it's for musicians and music students who need to keep the rhythm while they're playing their instruments — like, the little click that keeps you honest? yeah, that's her. 👑

and here's the iconic part: it uses MIDI for sound generation instead of digital audio. why is that a slay? because it means low CPU usage, and the timing is very accurate thanks to the ALSA sequencer. no cap. 🫶

✨ Options ✨

• --help — shows help about options. your girl is helpful like that.
• --help-all — shows all the options. every single one. she's not holding back.
• -v, --version — shows version information. iykyk.

💅 Standard Options 💅

these ones apply to all Qt5 applications, so they're not even kmetronome-specific, she's just being a good citizen. 🌈

• -style= style / -style style — set the application GUI style. the possible values depend on your system configuration, okay? and if Qt was compiled with additional styles, or has additional styles as plugins, those will be available to the -style command line option too.
• -stylesheet= stylesheet / -stylesheet stylesheet — set the application styleSheet. the value has to be a path to a file that contains the Style Sheet. yes, a whole file. she's fancy.
• -widgetcount — prints a debug message at the end about the number of widgets left undestroyed and the maximum number of widgets that existed at the same time. nerd behavior and we love it for her. 🙈
• -reverse — sets the application's layout direction to Qt::RightToLeft. > heads up bestie: this option is intended to aid debugging and should not be used in production. the default value is automatically detected from the user's locale (see also QLocale::textDirection()).
• -platform platformName[:options] — specify the Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA) plugin.
• -platformpluginpath path — specify the path to platform plugins.
• -platformtheme platformTheme — specify the platform theme.
• -plugin plugin — specify additional plugins to load. the argument may appear multiple times, so go off.
• -qwindowgeometry geometry — specify the window geometry for the main window using the X11-syntax. for example: -qwindowgeometry 100x100+50+50
• -qwindowicon icon — set the default window icon. cute.
• -qwindowtitle title — set the title of the first window.
• -session session — restore the application from an earlier session. time travel but make it Qt. ✨
• -display hostname:screen_number — switch displays on X11. this overrides the DISPLAY environment variable.
• -geometry geometry — specify the window geometry for the main window on X11. for example: -geometry 100x100+50+50
• -fontengine= freetype — use the FreeType font engine.

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💀 BUGS 💀

found something broken? see Tickets at Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/p/kmetronome/

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

qt5options (7) — go read that one next, bestie.

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👑 LICENSE 👑

this manual page was written by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas plcl@users.sourceforge.net

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; considering as source code all the file that enable the production of this manpage.

like, actual permission. in writing. iconic.

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🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Pedro López-Cabanillas plcl@users.sf.net

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and that's the whole page, babe — this was kmetronome version 1.4.1, dated May, and it's been kmetronome(1) energy from the very first line to the very last. 🎀💖✨ mwah, go make some music. 🥁🫶