1shotwell(1)                 General Commands Manual                shotwell(1)
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NAME

6       shotwell - Digital photo manager
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SYNOPSIS

10       shotwell [OPTION]... [FILE]
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DESCRIPTION

14       Shotwell  is  a  digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop
15       environment.  It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, orga‐
16       nize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode,
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OPTIONS

21       -h, --help Show help options
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23       -d, --datadir=FOLDER
24              Path to Shotwell's private data. Using  -d  stand-alone  without
25              --profile  --create  is  considered deprecated and should not be
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28       --no-runtime-monitoring
29              Do not monitor library folder at runtime for changes
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31       -f, --fullscreen
32              Open the viewer mode in fullscreen. Has  no  effect  in  library
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38       -V, --version
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41       --display=DISPLAY
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44       -p, --show-metadata
45              Dump all Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata of FILE
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47       -i, --profile=PROFILE
48              Start shotwell with a different profile. A profile consists of a
49              set of settings and a new private data dir. The data dir can  be
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52       -l, --list-profiles
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56              Show the available profiles in a dialog, with managing capabili‐
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EXAMPLES

61       shotwell
62              Opens Shotwell with the user's library.
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64       shotwell FILE
65              Opens  an  image  file for direct editing.  File is not imported
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68       shotwell --profile="Development environment"
69              Opens shotwell using the  profile  named  "Development  environ‐
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NOTES

74       Shotwell homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell
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76       Report bugs: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/issues
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AUTHOR

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