QTOPTIONS(7)

💅 qtoptions — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, so you know how every single app that's built on the Qt toolkit has this whole secret menu of command-line options that all of them share? yeah. this is that. qtoptions is the glossary of Common commandline options for all applications based on the Qt toolkit — literally every Qt(TM) app you've ever opened takes these, so once you learn them you've learned them for everybody. it's giving universal cheat code. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Qt application [Qt Generic Options]

so like, you run your app, and then you can tack on any of the generic options below. that's the whole deal. 🌸

👑 OPTIONS 👑

the following options apply to all Qt(TM) applications — like, all of them. every last one. no cap. 💅

• --display displayname — points the app at the X-server display called displayname. go hang out over there instead, queen. 🖥️
• --session sessionId — restores the application for the session you hand it as sessionId. it's giving "resume where we left off". 💖
• --cmap — makes the application install a private color map on an 8-bit display. exclusive palette energy, only for you. 👑
• --ncols count — caps how many colors get allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, but only if the app is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification. so specific of it. 🙈
• --nograb — tells Qt(TM) to never grab the mouse or the keyboard. hands off, no touching, we don't do that here. ✋
• --dograb — running under a debugger can cause an implicit --nograb, so use --dograb to override that. it's the "jk bestie, grab away" option. 😭
• --sync — switches to synchronous mode, for debugging. slow and steady and fully accountable. 🐢
• --fn, --font fontname — defines the application font. pick your vibe, typography-wise. ✨
• --bg, --background color — sets the default background color, plus a whole application palette (the light and dark shades get calculated for you, so cute, it did the math). 🌈
• --fg, --foreground color — sets the default foreground color. 🍓
• --btn, --button color — sets the default button color. buttons deserve aesthetic too. 🎀
• --name name — sets the application name. name your child. 🦋
• --title title — sets the application title, aka the caption. main character energy for your window bar. ⭐
• --visual TrueColor — forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display. forcing it. slay. 🔥
• --inputstyle inputstyle — sets the XIM (X Input Method) input style. possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and root. pick one, they're all valid, it's a whole menu. 🧚
• --im XIM server — sets the XIM server. point it at your server bestie. 💜
• --noxim — disables XIM. nope, not today, input method, we're closed. 💀
• --reverse — mirrors the whole layout of widgets. the whole thing. flipped. chaos (affectionate). 🙈
• --stylesheet file.qss — applies the Qt stylesheet in file.qss to the application widgets. glow-up via file path. 💅

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• kdeoptions(7) — go read that one next, bestie, it's the sibling page 🫶

💖 AUTHORS 💖

this man page was written by Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>. thank you for your service, legend. 👑

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>

• Author. (yes that's it, that's the whole entry, she's the author, periodt.)

and that's the whole page, babe. it came from the K Desktop Environment, dated 2004-02-02, and it lives at QTOPTIONS(7) in the manual — so if you ever forget any of this, that's where to find it again. mwah. 💋🌸