WXMAXIMA(1)

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👑 WXMAXIMA(1) 👑

okay bestie, so this is the wxmaxima man page from the General Commands Manual — yes, the whole thing is literally about wxmaxima, which is the wxWidgets interface for Maxima, and we're gonna read it together like it's the group chat. pull up a chair 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wxmaxima — the wxWidgets interface for Maxima. that's it, that's the vibe 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wxmaxima [-v] [-h] [-o <str>] [-e] [-b] [--logtostderr] [--pipe]
[--exit-on-error] [-f <str>] [-u <str>] [-l <str>] [-X <str>] [-m <str>]
[--enableipc] [input file...]

like, that's the whole spell you type at the terminal, bestie. copy it exactly, no cap ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so wxmaxima is a graphical front-end to the Maxima computer algebra system, and it's genuinely rather self-explanatory — iconic behavior honestly. it gives you a graphical interface and a 2D formatted output display for Maxima. the menu system is giving main character energy: it hands you access to a huge part of the Maxima native set of commands, plus a browsable Maxima help. and the dialogue windows make introducing mathematical entities — think limits, matrices, etc. — super easy. besides all that, it extends Maxima with a few powerful features, like being able to create diagrams with one parameter bound to a slider gui control. obsessed 😭

you can also create worksheets, which can include mathematical cells (and the results) but also different headlines, text cells, images, page breaks, etc. literally everything, it's giving scrapbook 🎀

now real talk about Maxima itself: Maxima is a free (GPL) common lisp implementation based on the original computer algebra system Macsyma developed at MIT. it has full documentation (HTML and info) included. slay for documentation 💖

and wxmaxima uses the cross-platform GUI toolkit wxWidgets and runs natively on many operative systems. we love cross-platform 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

okay here's the part where we go through every single flag, because every single one matters, no skipping 🔥

  • -h, --help — Help: prints a list of options. the "wait what do I type" button, we've all been there 🫶
  • -v, --version — Prints the current version. so you know exactly which era of slay you're running ✨
  • -b, --batch — processes the file, saves it afterward. heads up though: Will halt if wxmaxima finds an error message in Maxima's output and pause if Maxima asks a question. so it's giving "unsupervised but still paying attention" 💀
  • -o, --open=<str> — Open a file at startup. straight to business 🌸
  • -e, --eval=<str> — Evaluate the file after opening it. open it then run it, periodt 💅
  • --logtostderr — Log all "debug messages" sidebar messages to stderr, too. for the girlies who need to see everything 👀
  • --pipe — Pipe messages from Maxima to stdout. 🦋
  • --exit-on-error — Close the program on any Maxima error. dramatic? yes. effective? also yes 😭
  • -f, --ini=<str> — Allows specifying a file to store the configuration in. your config, your rules 🎀
  • -u, --use-version=<str> — Use Maxima version <str>. pick your fighter ⭐
  • -l, --lisp=<str> — Use a Maxima compiled with lisp compiler <str>. 🌈
  • -X, --extra-args=<str> — Allows to specify extra Maxima arguments. secret bonus args, iykyk 🤫
  • -m, --maxima=<str> — Allows to specify the location of the Maxima binary. point her at the right address bestie 🧚
  • --enableipc — Lets Maxima control wxmaxima via interprocess communications. > Use this option with care. like, actual caution, bestie — the man page said it, not me 💀

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • ~/.config/wxMaxima.conf — The personal wxmaxima initialization file, where user-specific settings are stored. that's your little corner of the universe 💖
  • ~/.maxima/wxmaxima-init.mac — If the Maxima user directory — usually ~/.maxima/ — contains a text file named wxmaxima-init.mac, the contents of the file are passed to Maxima automatically every time a new worksheet has been started. automatic, every time, no cap ✨

😭 BUGS 😭

if you find a bug in wxmaxima, please report it in the wxmaxima bug database. (and please check first if it was not already reported — a quick vibe check before you post 🙈) and if you have a fix, that would be great. wxmaxima is an open-source project, where you can contribute. we love a contributor 🫶

if the issue is a mathematical bug, it might be a bug in Maxima (the backend, which does the mathematical computations), not wxmaxima (the graphical frontend). like, know which one you're mad at, bestie 💀

the Maxima bug database is available at Sourceforge. 🦋

🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

  • J. Rafael Rodriguez Galvan (Debian project), original author of the manual page 🎀
  • Gunter Königsmann (wxMaxima project) ✨
  • Wolfgang Dautermannn (wxMaxima project) 💅

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. legal slay 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, bestie, it's giving homework but make it cute 📚

and that's a wrap, bestie 💖 this was the wxMaxima page for the General Commands Manual, version-and-date vibes: <rainbow>wxMaxima 2026-02-10</rainbow>. go forth and compute, you absolute icon 👑✨

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