QT5OPTIONS
Section: Qt Command Line Documentation (7)
Updated: 2016-06-04
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NAME
qt5options - Common commandline options for all applications based on the Qt(TM) toolkit
SYNOPSIS
-
Qt application [-style= style / -style style] [-stylesheet= stylesheet / -stylesheet stylesheet] [-widgetcount] [-reverse] [-qmljsdebugger= port] [-platform platformName[:options]] [-platformpluginpath path] [-platformtheme platformTheme] [-plugin plugin] [-qwindowgeometry geometry] [-qwindowicon icon] [-qwindowtitle title] [-reverse] [-session session] [-display hostname:screen_number] [-geometry geometry] [-dialogs= [xp|none]] [-fontengine= freetype] [-h, --help and -? on Windows®] [-v --version]
OPTIONS
The following options apply to all
Qt(TM)
applications:
-style= style / -style style
-
Set the application
GUI
style. Possible values depend on the system configuration. If
Qt(TM)
is compiled with additional styles or has additional styles as plugins these will be available to the
-style
command line option.
-stylesheet= stylesheet / -stylesheet stylesheet
-
Set the application styleSheet. The value must be a path to a file that contains the Style Sheet.
-widgetcount
-
Print debug message at the end about number of widgets left undestroyed and maximum number of widgets existed at the same time.
-reverse
-
Set the application's layout direction to
Qt::RightToLeft. This option is intended to aid debugging and should not be used in production. The default value is automatically detected from the user's locale (see also
QLocale::textDirection()).
-qmljsdebugger= port
-
Activate the QML/JS debugger with a specified port. The value must be of format port:1234[,block], where block is optional and will make the application wait until a debugger connects to it.
-platform platformName[:options]
-
Specify the
Qt(TM)
Platform Abstraction (QPA) plugin.
-platformpluginpath path
-
Specify the path to platform plugins.
-platformtheme platformTheme
-
Specify the platform theme.
-plugin plugin
-
Specify additional plugins to load. The argument may appear multiple times.
-qwindowgeometry geometry
-
Specify the window geometry for the main window using the
X11-syntax. For example: -qwindowgeometry 100x100+50+50
-qwindowicon icon
-
Set the default window icon.
-qwindowtitle title
-
Set the title of the first window.
-session session
-
Restore the application from an earlier session.
-display hostname:screen_number
-
Switch displays on
X11. Overrides the
DISPLAY
environment variable.
-geometry geometry
-
Specify the window geometry for the main window on
X11. For example: -geometry 100x100+50+50
-dialogs= [xp|none]
-
Only available for the
Windows®
platform. XP uses native style dialogs and none disables them.
-fontengine= freetype
-
Use the FreeType font engine.
-h, --help and -? on Windows®
-
Print all options and the application description.
-v --version
-
Display the version string of the application.
SEE ALSO
kf5options(7)
AUTHORS
Man page originally written by
Lauri Watts
<lauri@kde.org>
Updated to
Frameworks
5 by
Burkhard Lück
<lueck@hube-lueck.de>
The infos for this man page are from
m[blue]QApplication documentationm[][1],
m[blue]QGuiApplication documentationm[][2]
and
m[blue]QCommandLineParser documentationm[][3].
AUTHORS
Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
-
Author.
Burkhard Lück <lueck@hube-lueck.de>
-
Author.
NOTES
- 1.
-
QApplication documentation
-
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qapplication.html#QApplication
- 2.
-
QGuiApplication documentation
-
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qguiapplication.html#QGuiApplication
- 3.
-
QCommandLineParser documentation
-
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qcommandlineparser.html