PLASMAENGINEEXPLO(1)

hey bestie 💖 welcome to the plasmaengineexplorer User's Manual — yes, the whole thing, every flag, every warning, no skips, no cap. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

plasmaengineexplorer — it gives you direct access to plasma data engines. that's it, that's the vibe 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

plasmaengineexplorer [-v, --version] [-h, --help] [--list]
                     [--heightpixels] [--widthpixels] [-xpixels]
                     [-ypixels] [--enginedata engine] [--sourcedata
                     engine] [--intervalms] [--appapplication]

plasmaengineexplorer [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]

so like, you can run it with all those little flags, or you can just roll up with the KDE Generic Options and Qt Generic Options and let it cook 🌈

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

plasmaengineexplorer is a graphical tool that lets developers test Plasma data engines without writing a Plasma applet. no applet, no problem, we love that for you 💖

if you pass no options at all, it just starts up with no data engine selected — and you can pick the data engine you need from a drop-down list. very chill, very "pick your own adventure" 🦋

👀 real talk though: only installed data engines get found. So if you just installed a fresh one and it's ghosting you, kbuildsycoca4 may need to be run for newly-installed data engines to be found. periodt.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v, --version — displays version information ✨
• -h, --help — displays this help 🫶
• --list pixels — displays a list of known engines and their descriptions. (yes, the pixels bit is what the manpage says, we don't question it 🙈)
• --height — sets the height of the window, in pixels 📏
• --width pixels — sets the width of the window, in pixels 📐
• -x pixels — sets the x (horizontal) co-ordinate of the top left corner of the window, in pixels 🧭
• -y pixels — sets the y (vertical) co-ordinate of the top left corner of the window, in pixels 🧭
• --engine data engine — starts plasmaengineexplorer with the given data engine already selected. data engine is the internal name of the data engine, and it's the one given by the X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name key of the desktop file. iykyk 👑
• --source data engine — only valid in conjunction with --engine. requests a specific source from the data engine when plasmaengineexplorer is started. don't run it solo bestie, it needs its buddy 🤝
• --interval time — sets the default update interval for requested sources to time milliseconds. if you don't set it, the source will update on demand (and for some sources, that means when new data is available). if --source is specified, this is the update interval that will be used when requesting that source ⏱️
• --app application — only shows engines associated with the parent application; maps to the X-KDE-ParentApp entry in the DataEngine's .desktop file 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

more detailed user documentation is available from help:/plasma-desktop — either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/plasma-desktop. go read it, it's giving "extra credit" 📚✨

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

load the time data engine, showing the local time and updating every second:

plasmaengineexplorer --engine time --source Local --interval 1000

look at that. time, Local, 1000 — local time refreshing every single second. main character energy honestly ⏰🔥

👑 AUTHORS 👑

plasmaengineexplorer was written by Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>. thank you for your service, icon 🫡💖

aaaand that's the whole page, no notes 🎀 this one's from KDE Plasma — Plasma 5.8 — dated 2017-01-09, under the manual name PLASMAENGINEEXPLO(1). ok bye bestie, go explore some engines 💅✨🌸