Side Panel

From Bluefish Wiki
Revision as of 12:38, 24 December 2009 by Fal7i (talk | contribs) (Created page with '__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__ {{Man2top |lang=en |rev=2.0.0 |Title=2. Command line options |prev=Man 2 ch03 |Subtitle=Chapter III. Starting Bluefish |next=Man 2 ch04…')
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search


2. Command line options

There are several useful command line options:

-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-otions(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
-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, and bluefish -p '%s' will open a project file.