gnome-options - Man Page

Standard Command Line Options for GNOME 2 Programs

Synopsis

program [standard options] [specific options] arguments

Description

This manual page describes the command line options, which are common to all Gnome applications.

Options

Help options

-?,  --help

Show the applications help message.

--usage

Display a brief usage message.

--version

Show the applications's version information.

Bonobo Activation support

--oaf-ior-fd=FD

File descriptor to print IOR on

--oaf-activate-iid=IID

IID to activate

--oaf-private

Prevent registering of server with OAF

GNOME library options

--disable-sound

Disable sound server usage

--enable-sound

Enable sound server usage

--espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT

Host:port on which the esd sound server to use is running.  This is useful if you simultaneously run programs on several machines.

GNOME GUI options

--disable-crash-dialog

Disable the crash dialog, which is normally shown when the application segfaults.

Session management options

--sm-client-id=ID

Specify session management ID.  Only used by the session manager itself while restarting the application.

--sm-config-prefix=PREFIX

Specify prefix of saved configuration.

--sm-disable

Disable connection to session manager.

Other options

--load-modules=MODULE1,MODULE2,...

Dynamic modules to load

See Also

For most GNOME programs there will be additional command line options, which are specific to the program.  These will be explained in the Application options section of the --help output and in the application's online help.

Author

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

Referenced By

bluefish(1), evince-previewer(1), evince-thumbnailer(1), five-or-more(6), four-in-a-row(6), gchem3d(1), gchemcalc(1), gchempaint(1), gcrystal(1), gnome-klotski(6), gnome-mahjongg(6), gnome-mines(6), gnome-tetravex(6), gspectrum(1), papers-previewer(1), papers-thumbnailer(1), quadrapassel(6), tali(6).

2003-10-20 GNOME 2.2 Gnome User's Manual