MTPAINT(1)

📦
version 3.50.14 · 2 versions
  • 3.50.14 · arch rolling, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking (latest)
  • 3.40 · debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy
, in arch rolling, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 MTPAINT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the mtPaint page — that's Mark Tyler's Painting Program, and yes it's a whole vibe ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

mtpaint — a pixel based painting program 🎨 (that's the whole thing, she's simple, she's iconic)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mtpaint [option] [imagefile ... ]

so basically you can throw an option at her, and/or a bunch of image files, and she'll deal with it 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

mtPaint is a GTK+1/2/3 based painting program, and she was literally designed for making icons and pixel based artwork 🎀. She can edit indexed palette images or 24 bit RGB images, and she comes with painting tools AND palette manipulation tools — the range?? unmatched fr fr.

Her main file format is PNG, no cap, that's her home base. But she's also out here handling JPEG, GIF, TIFF, JPEG2000, WEBP, BMP, PCX, TGA, LBM, PBM, PGM, PPM, PAM, LSS16, XPM, and XBM files. Like… she ate that 🍓.

And the way she's so simple with basically no dependencies means she runs beautifully on GNU/Linux, Windows, and even older PC hardware 🫶. Main character energy on a potato laptop, we love to see it.

There's full documentation of mtPaint's features contained in a handbook 📖. If you don't already have this, you can download it from the mtPaint website. Go get it bestie.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

mtPaint can accept one of the following options (just one, she's not doing a combo meal):

  • --help — Output usage information 🙋
  • --version — Output version information 👑
  • --flist — Read a list of files from a file 📋
  • --sort — Sort files passed as arguments 🔤
  • --cmd — Start mtPaint in commandline scripting mode without GUI 🤖 (no window, just vibes)
  • -s — Grab a screenshot 📸
  • -v — Start mtPaint in viewer mode 👀
  • -- — End of options 🛑

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Original author:

  • Mark Tyler

Current maintainer:

  • Dmitry Groshev <wjaguar AT users.sourceforge.net>

The development of mtPaint has been helped by various people from the free software community 🫶. See "Credits" in the README or the mtPaint help system for details — they all deserve their flowers 💐.

You can follow or contribute to mtPaint's development at <https://github.com/wjaguar/mtPaint> 🦋.

ngl this whole thing is mtPaint 3.49.26, dated 2020-03-18, and it's still serving 💖 that's the tea, bestie — go paint something iconic ✨🎨
📦 where this page comes from