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Lancaster University
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United Kingdom
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gnome-options
Section: Gnome User's Manual (7)Updated: 2003-10-20
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NAME
gnome-options - Standard Command Line Options for GNOME 2 ProgramsSYNOPSIS
program [standard options] [specific options] argumentsDESCRIPTION
This manual page describes the command line options, which are common to all Gnome applications.OPTIONS
Help options
- -?, --help
- Show the application's help message.
- --usage
- Display a brief usage message.
- --version
- Show the application'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
gtk-options(7)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.
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