gnome-options(7)

📦 version 2.32.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 GNOME-OPTIONS 💖

okay bestie, so this is the gnome-options(7) page from the Gnome User's Manual — like, the group chat rules that every GNOME app agreed on. pull up a chair 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

gnome-options — the Standard Command Line Options for GNOME 2 Programs, aka the universal vibe every GNOME app shares 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

program [standard options] [specific options] arguments

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: this manual page is describing all the command line options that are, like, common to every single Gnome application. not just some of them. all of them. no cap. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💜 Help options

  • -?, --help — shows you the application's help message. your bestie when you're lost 🥺
  • --usage — gives you a brief usage message. the tl;dr version, love that for us
  • --version — shows the application's version information. the "who are you and where did you come from" option 👑

🧚 Bonobo Activation support

  • --oaf-ior-fd=FD — the file descriptor to print the IOR on
  • --oaf-activate-iid=IID — the IID to activate
  • --oaf-private — prevents registering of the server with OAF

🌈 GNOME library options

  • --disable-sound — disables sound server usage 🔇
  • --enable-sound — enables sound server usage 🔊
  • --espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT — the Host:port on which the esd sound server you wanna use is running. highkey useful if you're simultaneously running programs on several machines, fr fr

🍓 GNOME GUI options

  • --disable-crash-dialog — disables the crash dialog, which is normally shown when the application segfaults. yes bestie, that little "something went wrong" popup? gone. 💀

🌟 Session management options

  • --sm-client-id=ID — specify the session management ID. only used by the session manager itself while restarting the application, so like, it's not really for you, it's for the session manager's own main character moment
  • --sm-config-prefix=PREFIX — specify the prefix of saved configuration
  • --sm-disable — disables the connection to the session manager

⭐ Other options

  • --load-modules=MODULE1,MODULE2,... — the dynamic modules to load

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

okay so for most GNOME programs there are gonna be additional command line options that are specific to that particular program. those get explained in the Application options section of the --help output, and also in the application's online help. so if you can't find it here, that's where to look 🫶

💖 AUTHOR 💖

This manual page was written by Jochen Voss <voss@debian.org>. A first version was generated with the help of the help2man program, and the program's output was manually edited later. slay, honestly ✨

and that's a wrap, bestie! this whole thing is from the GNOME 2.2 era, dated 2003-10-20 — yeah, ancient, but still iconic 👑💅🦋

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