KUIVIEWER(1)

✨ KUIVIEWER ✨

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for kuiviewer, from the General Commands Manual (that's section 1, the "type it in your terminal" section 💅). pull up a chair, we're gonna look at .ui files together and it's gonna be adorable.

💖 NAME 💖

kuiviewer — a viewer for Qt Designer user interface files. that's the whole job. it looks at them. it shows you them. icon.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kuiviewer [ generic-options ] [ ui-file... ]

kuiviewer [ generic-options ] { -s, --takescreenshot filename } [ -w,
--screenshotwidth int ] [ -h, --screenshotheight int ] ui-file

two whole moods, no cap. give it a bunch of ui-files and vibe, or go full screenshot mode with -s and friends. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so KUIViewer is this little utility that displays and tests the user interface files — you know, the .ui ones — that get generated by Qt Designer. and the way that it does this is it can show you those interfaces in a whole variety of different widget styles. variety!! we love options. ✨

normally KUIViewer opens up a full GUI, which means you can actually, like, interact with the interface it's showing you. poke at it. click the things. main character energy, truly.

but — and this is the fun part — if you pass the --takescreenshot option, instead of all that, KUIViewer just dumps a screenshot of the interface and exits immediately. like, no small talk, no lingering, just screenshot, bye. 📸 and there's other options too so you can control precisely how that screenshot gets constructed. precision, bestie. chefs kiss.

oh and also: this application is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. she's got connections. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

down below are the kuiviewer-specific options. if you want the full full summary of options, just run kuiviewer --help and let it yap. but for the signature dishes:

• -s, --takescreenshot filename — take a screenshot of the interface you gave it and exit immediately, no hesitation, no goodbye. the filename argument tells it where to save that screenshot, and heads up: the screenshot gets saved in PNG format. so plan your extension accordingly, okurrr. 💾
• -w, --screenshotwidth int — before it takes the screenshot, it resizes the interface to the width you give it as int. get those dimensions right before the camera comes out. 📐
• -h, --screenshotheight int — same deal but for the height: before taking the screenshot, resize the interface to the given height. (and yes, -h is out here doing height duty in this house, iykyk 🫠) 📏

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• designer(1) — her sister. go say hi. 💜

💫 AUTHOR 💫

KUIViewer was written by Richard Moore <rich@kde.org>, Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri@kde.org>, and Benjamin C. Meyer <ben+kuiviewer@meyerhome.net>. absolute legends, all three, no notes. 👑

this manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system — (but may be used by others). generous queen behavior honestly. 🎀

okay that's the whole thing!! this page is from the General Commands Manual, and it's dated March 25, 2005. yes she's vintage, yes she still serves. go screenshot something, bestie 💖✨🦋