livedings(1)

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💖 livedings(1) — the group chat version 💖

okay so this is the manual page for livedings, from the General Commands Manual section, and honestly? it's a little icon and we're gonna get you fluent in it. bestie, let's go. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

livedings — a graphical frontend for mididings 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

livedings [-h] [-p port] [-l port] [-T] [-x width] [-y height]
          [-w width] [-F font] [-f font] [-c color] [-C color]
          [-b color] [-n name]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

livedings is a graphical front end that lets you monitor and trigger scene changes. the way it works is lowkey elegant: it runs as a separate application that uses OSC to communicate with mididings. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

by default, livedings uses the standard Tk theme. like, cute, but plain. if you want the glow-up, specify the -T option and you get a custom theme with higher contrast and larger fonts — it's giving accessible and gorgeous, no cap. 💅

and yeah, peep livedings --help for more options. there's more where that came from.

the buttons at the bottom of the screen? main character energy. seriously:

  • switch to the previous/next scene 🔥
  • switch to the previous/next subscene ✨
  • send all-notes-off messages (panic) on all output ports 😭 (the emergency brake, respect it)

and the keyboard girlies are eating too — you can use the arrow keys to switch:

  • up/down → scenes
  • left/right → subscenes

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit. the classic "what does anything do" move 🎀
  • -p port — OSC port mididings is listening on (default 56418) 📡
  • -l port — OSC port for notifications from mididings (default 56419) 🔔
  • -T — enable custom theme and larger fonts ✨ (the glow-up option, we stan)
  • -x width — width of window in pixels (default 640) 🪟
  • -y height — height of window in pixels (default 400) 🪟
  • -w width — width of scene list in pixels (default 240) 📜
  • -F font — display font (default Sans 14 bold) 🔤
  • -f font — scene list font (default Sans 10) 🔡
  • -c color — text color (default gray50) 🎨
  • -C color — highlight text color (default black) 🖤
  • -b color — background color 🎨 (no default listed, so go wild, it's your canvas)
  • -n name — name to be shown in the window title 🏷️
lowkey the cleanest little option set. not one wasted flag. periodt. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

see the online documentation at https://mididings.github.io/mididings/ for current info on mididings and its related tools. it's the source of truth, iykyk. ⭐

💀 BUGS 💀

bugs? you must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. 💀 iconic confidence. honestly, respect.

but if we happen to be wrong 🙈 — submit a bug report with as much detail as possible at https://github.com/mididings/mididings/issues. give them the receipts, bestie, the more detail the better. 🌈

🧚 sign-off 🧚

that's the whole page, fr fr — this was the livedings(1) manpage from the General Commands Manual, dated 2026-08-13. go forth and switch scenes, queen. 🍓💖✨

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