XOURNAL(1)
β¨ XOURNAL β¨
okay bestie, so like β this is the manual page for xournal, which lives in the General Commands Manual section, and I'm about to give you the full rundown. no gatekeeping here π
πΈ NAME πΈ
xournal β a GTK+ Application for note taking π
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
xournal [file]
like. that's it. that's the whole thing. one optional file. iconic behavior honestly π
π DESCRIPTION π
Real talk: this manual page is the brief version β it documents the xournal command, but only the short-and-sweet way. it's giving "teaser trailer," not "director's cut." π
So what even is xournal? It's a GTK+ application for notetaking, sketching, and keeping a journal using a stylus. ποΈβ¨ Main character energy for sure.
Oh, and it can ALSO be used to add annotations to PDF files and graphics files. so like, you're not just scribbling in a void β you're scribbling on top of your documents. slay.
π¨ Important vibe check: it takes no options. zero. none. don't come for it with flags, it has nothing for you. just the command and optionally a file, periodt. π
The Xournal HTML manual may be found at:
file://usr/share/doc/xournal/manual.html
go read it, iykyk π§
π AUTHOR π
xournal was written by Denis Auroux <auroux@math.mit.edu>. π
This manual page was originally written by Mathieu Bouchard <mbouchar@bioinfo.ulaval.ca>, for the Debian project β but like, it may be used by others too, so no exclusivity contract here. sharing is caring, bestie. π«Ά
and that's the whole page!! π this little gem was dated November 8, 2009 and shipped with the version you've got installed right there. stay scribbly, stay slay π π
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: xournal 1:0.4.8.2016-7+b1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- debian trixie: xournal 1:0.4.8.2016-9 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: xournal 1:0.4.8.2016-7build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: xournal 1:0.4.8.2016-7build4 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu questing: xournal 1:0.4.8.2016-9
- ubuntu resolute: xournal 1:0.4.8.2016-9build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: xournal 1:0.4.8.2016-9build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms