KMIDIMON(1)

🎧 KMIDIMON(1) — kmidimon: Drumstick MIDI Monitor 🎧

🌸 NAME 🌸

kmidimon — Drumstick MIDI monitor using ALSA sequencer and QT user interface. That’s the name, bestie, and she’s serving exactly what she says on the tin. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kmidimon [ options ] [ file ]

literally the whole summoning ritual: kmidimon, then your options, then optionally a file. 🫶

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so Drumstick MIDI Monitor records events coming from a MIDI external port or application via the ALSA sequencer, or stored as Standard MIDI Files (SMF), RIFF MIDI (RMI) or Cakewalk (WRK) files. That’s the plot, no cap. 💖

It is especially useful if you want to debug MIDI software or your MIDI setup — it’s giving “friend who actually reads the logs” energy. It features a nice graphical user interface, customizable event filters and sequencer parameters, support for all MIDI messages and some ALSA messages, and saving the recorded event list to a text file or SMF. iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

💖 Generic options 💖

these are the generic options, bestie:

• --help — Show help about options.
• --help-all — Show all options.
• -v,--version — Show version information.

🦋 QT options 🦋

The following options apply to all Qt5 applications. yes, all of them — Qt5 girlies know the vibe. 💅

• -style= style / -style style — Set the application GUI style. Possible values depend on the system configuration. If Qt is compiled with additional styles or has additional styles as plugins these will be available to the -style command line option.
• -stylesheet= stylesheet / -stylesheet stylesheet — Set the application styleSheet. The value must be a path to a file that contains the Style Sheet.
• -widgetcount — Print debug message at the end about number of widgets left undestroyed and maximum number of widgets existed at the same time.
• -reverse — Set the application’s layout direction to Qt::RightToLeft.

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.
• -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.
• -qwindowtitle title — Set the title of the first window.
• -session session — Restore the application from an earlier session.
• -display hostname:screen_number — Switch displays on X11. 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.

🍓 Arguments 🍓

• file — Input SMF/RMI/KAR/WRK file name.

💀 BUGS 💀

See Tickets at Sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/p/kmidimon/ — if something’s acting up, don’t suffer in silence, bestie. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read qt5options (7) too, iykyk. ✨

👑 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. periodt. 👑

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

• Pedro López-Cabanillas plcl@users.sf.net — absolute icon, fr fr. 🌟

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~ cute sign-off: this page is serving kmidimon 1.4.1 energy, dated October 20, 2026 ~ 🎀