Launching Bluefish

• 1. Launching Bluefish
• 2. Command line options

1. Launching Bluefish

In GNOME, Bluefish can be started from the Applications/Programming menu. From a terminal, simply launch bluefish using the command bluefish.

In GNOME, bluefish is launched conforming to the system language. If you want to launch it with another language, first rename the directory $HOME/.bluefish to $HOME/.bluefish-xx, where xx is the previous language. This way you will retrieve your previous settings easily. Then use this command in a terminal: export LANGUAGE=fr_FR; export LANG=fr_FR; export LC_ALL=fr_FR; bluefish & if you use a bash-like shell.

Then use this command in a terminal: export LANGUAGE=fr_FR; export LANG=fr_FR; export LC_ALL=fr_FR; bluefish & if you use a bash-like shell.

2. Command Line Options

There are several useful command line options:
$ man bluefish show a list of possible commands.

-c, --curwindow

Open a file in an existing window. This can be used to overwrite the chosen default.

-n, --newwindow

Open a file in a new window. This can be used to overwrite the chosen default.

-?, --help, --help-*, --help-all

Print all or just a group of help options. Some of these options may be documented in gtk-options(7) and gnome-options(7).

--help-gtk

GTK+ Options

--class=CLASS Program class as used by the window manager

--name=NAME Program name as used by the window manager

--display=DISPLAY X display to use

--screen=SCREEN X screen to use

--sync Make X calls synchronous

--gtk-module=MODULES Load additional GTK+ modules

--g-fatal-warnings Make all warnings fatal

--help-gnome

todo

-v, --Version

Print version information.

Many programs like browsers, email clients and file managers can be configured to open files in Bluefish. For example, bluefish '%s' will open a file in the current window, bluefish -n '%s' will open a file in a new window.