prismlauncher(6)

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✨ prismlauncher(6) — the Minecraft launcher bestie 💖

okay so welcome to the Games Manual section, bestie, because today we're learning about prismlauncher and honestly? it's iconic. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

prismlauncher — a launcher and instance manager for Minecraft. that's the whole vibe. it launches, it manages instances, it slays. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

prismlauncher [OPTIONS...]

that's it. that's the whole thing. you run it, you give it options if you want, and it does its little thing. periodt. 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so Prism Launcher is a custom launcher for Minecraft that lets you manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once, like, easily. no chaos, no crying, just vibes. 😭✨

it also lets you install and remove mods by simply dragging and dropping — literally drag, drop, done. it's giving effortless. 🫶

here are the current features of Prism Launcher:

  • managing multiple Minecraft installations at once
  • installing and removing mods via drag and drop

ngl, that's a serve. 👑

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -d, --dir=DIRECTORY — use DIRECTORY as the Prism Launcher root. like, "this is my home base now." 🏠
  • -l, --launch=INSTANCE_ID — launch the instance specified by INSTANCE_ID. put it in, it goes. 🚀
  • --show=INSTANCE_ID — show the configuration window of the instance specified by INSTANCE_ID. peek at the settings, bestie. 👀
  • --alive — write a small live.check file after Prism Launcher starts. tiny file, big "i'm alive" energy. 💀✨
  • -h, --help — display help text and exit. the classic "help me" button. 🫶
  • -v, --version — display program version and exit. flex the version number and dip. 🎀
  • -a, --profile=PROFILE — use the account specified by PROFILE. ⚠️ heads up though: this one is only valid in combination with --launch. don't try it solo, it will not eat. 🙈

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

the behavior of the launcher can be customized by the following environment variables — besides other common Qt variables, iykyk:

  • QT_LOGGING_RULES — specifies which logging categories are shown in the logs. you can enable/disable multiple categories by separating them with a semicolon (;). 💅

the specific syntax, and alternatives to this setting, can be found at https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qloggingcategory.html#configuring-categories.

  • QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN — specifies the format in which the console output will be shown. make it pretty, make it yours. ✨

available options, as well as syntax, can be viewed at https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtglobal.html#qSetMessagePattern.

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

  • 0 — Success. we love a win. 🎉
  • 1 — Failure (syntax or usage error; configuration error; unexpected error). 😭💀 it's giving "something went wrong" — could be a typo, could be config, could be the universe being messy. all three count.

🐛 BUGS 🐛

found something cursed? report it here, bestie:

https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher/issues

🧚 RESOURCES 🧚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

MultiMC & Prism Launcher Contributors — absolute icons, all of them. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little manual page is dated 2026-09-29 and comes from the prismlauncher(6) page in the Games Manual — so go forth, launch some instances, and slay. 🍓💅 mwah

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: prismlauncher 11.1.1-1 · GPL-3.0-only AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND Apache-2.0 AND MIT AND LicenseRef-Batch AND OFL-1.1
  • 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms