XOURNALPP(1)

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version 1.3.8 · 16 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ NAME ✨

xournalpp — the open-source hand note-taking program, bestie 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: it's giving "I take notes with my whole hand and my whole heart," and that's literally what xournalpp is. open-source, handwritten, iconic. periodt.

💅 Usage 💅

com.github.xournalpp.xournalpp [OPTION…]

🎀 Help Options 🎀

  • -h, --help — shows you the help options, no cap, the basics
  • --help-all — shows you all the help options, the full lore drop
  • --help-gapplication — shows GApplication options
  • --help-gtk — shows GTK+ Options
  • --help-export — displays the advanced export options (iykyk)

🦋 Application Options 🦋

  • -n, --page=N — jump to Page (first Page: 1). yes bestie, page 1 is the first one, we don't do zero-indexing here 💀
  • --version — get the version of xournalpp, the receipts
  • --disable-audio — disable audio for this session. silence, but make it intentional 🫶
  • --attach-mode — open the PDF in attach mode. Ignored if no PDF file is specified. she literally cannot attach to nothing
  • -s, --save=XOPPFILE — save the xopp-file with the background PDF specified as FILE
  • --display=DISPLAY — the X display to use
  • -p, --create-pdf=PDFFILE — export FILE as PDF, slay
  • -i, --create-img=IMGFILE — export FILE as image files, one per page 🖼️ she guesses the output format from the extension of IMGFILE. Supported formats: .png, .svg

🌈 WEBSITE 🌈

pls pls pls go visit our website https://xournalpp.github.io to learn about how to configure and use Xournal++ and where you can get help! she's got all the answers, fr fr ✨

🧚 PLUGINS 🧚

in order to use plugins you must have Lua 5.3 installed. no Lua, no plugin, it's giving "requirements are requirements." a detailed description of how to write and use plugins is provided on the website 👑

💜 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 💜

a custom "locale" directory for localization files can be specified via the environment variable $TEXTDOMAINDIR. set it and she'll look there for your localization files, the way that she just knows 🌸

okay that's the whole page bestie, go take some handwritten notes and be the main character of your own notebook ✨

this was xournalpp 1.3.8, dated October 2026 — mwah, xoxo, manual out 💖

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