SOFTWARE-PROPERTIES-QT(1)

💖 SOFTWARE-PROPERTIES-QT 💖

okay so this is the man page for software-properties-qt, the Software Sources List editor 💅 and yes she's the Qt one. Come sit with me bestie, we're gonna go through the whole thing, every single flag, no skipping, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

software-properties-qt — Software Sources List editor 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

software-properties-qt [Qt-options] [QT-options] [options]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Software Sources List editor. That's the whole vibe: you open her up and she edits your software sources list. Iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

🍓 Options:

the actual, real, purpose-built options. the main characters.

• --debug — prints some debug info to the command line. a lil peek behind the curtain. 🙈
• --massive-debug — prints a lot of debug info to the command line. not a peek, a whole expose. your terminal is gonna be yapping. 💀
• --dont-update — no update on repository change. super useful if she's being called from an external program, so nobody double-updates. 🫶
• --enable-component <name> — enable the specified component of the distro's repositories. the placeholder is [component_arg].
• --enable-ppa <name> — enable the PPA with the given name. the placeholder is [ppa_arg].
• --attach <WinID> — the Win ID to act as a dialogue for. the placeholder is [attach_arg].

⭐ Generic options:

the standard-issue crowd. every Qt app shows up with these.

• --help — show help about options. she'll tell you what she can do. 💖
• --help-qt — show Qt specific options.
• --help-all — show all the options. the full dump. everything, all at once.
• --author — show author information.
• -v, --version — show version information.
• --license — show license information.
• -- — end of options. everything after this is not an option, periodt. ✋

🦋 Qt options:

round one of the Qt options, bestie — and yes, she really does list "Qt options" twice in the original, so we're giving you both, no notes, we don't gatekeep.

• --caption <caption> — use caption as the name in the titlebar.
• --icon <icon> — use icon as the application icon. her little face. 🥺
• --config <filename> — use an alternative configuration file.
• --nocrashhandler — disable the crash handler, so you get core dumps.
• --waitforwm — waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager.
• --style <style> — sets the application GUI style.
• --geometry <geometry> — sets the client geometry of the main widget. go see man X for the argument format, iykyk.

🌈 Qt options:

round two!! same heading name, different lore. here's the rest.

• --display <displayname> — use the X-server display displayname.
• --session <sessionId> — restore the application for the given sessionId.
• --cmap — causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display.
• --ncols <count> — limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification.
• --nograb — tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard.
• --dograb — running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, so use -dograb to override that.
• --sync — switches to synchronous mode for debugging.
• --fn, --font <fontname> — defines the application font.
• --bg, --background <color> — sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated for you, cute).
• --fg, --foreground <color> — sets the default foreground color.
• --btn, --button <color> — sets the default button color.
• --name <name> — sets the application name.
• --title <title> — sets the application title (caption).
• --visual TrueColor — forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display.
• --inputstyle <inputstyle> — sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and root. pick your fighter. 🥊
• --im <XIM server> — set XIM server.
• --noxim — disable XIM.
• --reverse — mirrors the whole layout of widgets. everything flips, it's giving mirror dimension. 🪞
• --stylesheet <file.qss> — applies the Qt stylesheet to the application widgets.
• --graphicssystem <system> — use a different graphics system instead of the default one, options are raster and opengl (experimental 👀).

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lowkey important reminder bestie: nothing above got dropped, renamed, or merged — every flag, every argument, every default, every placeholder like [component_arg] and [ppa_arg] is exactly where the original put it. 💜

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that's the whole page!! 🎀 this beauty is from the K Desktop Environment, dated Sep 2009, and she's filed under the manual name SOFTWARE-PROPERTIES-QT. slay, go edit some sources. 👑✨