shotwell

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NAME

shotwell - Digital photo manager

SYNOPSIS

shotwell [OPTION]... [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others.

OPTIONS

-h, --help Show help options

-d, --datadir=DIRECTORY

: Path to Shotwell's private data

--no-runtime-monitoring

: Do not monitor library directory at runtime for changes

-f, --fullscreen

: Open the viewer mode in fullscreen. Has no effect in library mode.

--no-startup-progress

: Don't display startup progress meter

-V, --version

: Show the application's version

--display=DISPLAY

: X display to use

-p, --show-metadata

: Dump all Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata of FILE

-i, --profile=PROFILE

: Start shotwell with a different profile. A profile consists of a set of settings and a new private data dir. The data dir can be overriden by secifying --datadir as well.

-l, --list-profiles

: Show the available profiles

EXAMPLES

shotwell

: Opens Shotwell with the user's library.

shotwell FILE

: Opens an image file for direct editing. File is not imported into library and unsaved changes are lost on close.

shotwell --profile="Development environment"

: Opens shotwell using the profile named "Development environment".

NOTES

Shotwell homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell

Report bugs: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/issues

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Jim Nelson jim@yorba.org and Allison Barlow allison@yorba.org.