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6 gimp - an image manipulation and paint program.
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11 gimp [-h] [--help] [--help-all] [--help-gtk] [-v] [--version]
12 [--license] [--verbose] [-n] [--new-instance] [-a] [--as-new] [-i]
13 [--no-interface] [-d] [--no-data] [-f] [--no-fonts] [-s] [--no-splash]
14 [--no-shm] [--no-cpu-accel] [--display display] [--session <name>] [-g]
15 [--gimprc <gimprc>] [--system-gimprc <gimprc>] [--dump-gimprc] [--con‐
16 sole-messages] [--debug-handlers] [--stack-trace-mode <mode>]
17 [--pdb-compat-mode <mode>] [--batch-interpreter <procedure>] [-b]
18 [--batch <command>] [filename] ...
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23 GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is used to edit and
24 manipulate images. It can load and save a variety of image formats and
25 can be used to convert between formats.
26 GIMP can also be used as a paint program. It features a set of drawing
28 and painting tools such as airbrush, clone, pencil, and paint brush.
29 Painting and drawing tools can be applied to an image with a variety of
30 paint modes. It also offers an extensive array of selection tools like
31 rectangle, ellipse, fuzzy select, bezier select, intelligent scissors,
32 and select by color.
33 GIMP offers a variety of plug-ins that perform a variety of image
35 manipulations. Examples include bumpmap, edge detect, gaussian blur,
36 and many others. In addition, GIMP has several scripting extension
37 which allow for advanced non-interactive processing and creation of
38 images.
39 GIMP ships with a second binary called gimp-console. This binary is a
41 console-only version and behaves as if gimp was called with the
42 --no-interface command-line option.
43 On platforms with the D-Bus message bus system, GIMP will by default
45 check if an instance is already running in this user session. If it
46 detects that, it will pass all filenames given on the command-line to
47 the already running GIMP instance and quit.
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52 GIMP accepts the following options:
53 -h, --help
55 Show GIMP command-line options.
56 --help-all
58 Show all command-line options.
59 --help-gtk
61 Show GTK+ command-line options.
62 -v, --version
64 Output version information and exit.
65 --license
67 Output license information and exit.
68 --verbose
70 Be verbose and create information on standard output.
71 -n, --new-instance
73 Do not attempt to reuse an already running GIMP instance.
74 Always start a new one.
75 -a, --as-new
77 Open filenames passed on the command-line as new images, don't
78 set the filename on them.
79 -i, --no-interface
81 Run without a user interface.
82 -d, --no-data
84 Do not load patterns, gradients, palettes, or brushes. Often
85 useful in non-interactive situations where startup time is to
86 be minimized.
87 -f, --no-fonts
89 Do not load any fonts. No text functionality will be available
90 if this option is used.
91 --display display
93 Use the designated X display.
94 -s, --no-splash
96 Do not show the splash screen.
97 --no-shm
99 Do not use shared memory between GIMP and its plug-ins.
100 Instead of using shared memory, GIMP will send the data via
101 pipe. This will result in slower performance than using shared
102 memory.
103 --no-cpu-accel
105 Do not use CPU accelerations such as MMX or SSE even if GIMP
106 detects that your CPU provides this functionality.
107 --session <name>
109 Use a different sessionrc for this GIMP session. The given ses‐
110 sion name is appended to the default sessionrc filename.
111 -g, --gimprc <gimprc>
113 Use an alternative gimprc instead of the default one. Useful in
114 cases where plug-in paths or machine specs may be different.
115 --system-gimprc <gimprc>
117 Use an alternate system gimprc file.
118 --dump-gimprc
120 Output a gimprc file with default settings.
121 --debug-handlers
123 Enable debugging signal handlers.
124 -c, --console-messages
126 Do not popup dialog boxes on errors or warnings. Print the mes‐
127 sages on the console instead.
128 --stack-trace-mode {never|query|always}
130 If a stack-trace should be generated in case of fatal signals.
131 --pdb-compat-mode {off|on|warn}
133 If the PDB should provide aliases for deprecated functions.
134 --batch-interpreter <procedure>
136 Specifies the procedure to use to process batch events. The
137 default is to let Script-Fu evaluate the commands.
138 -b, --batch <command>
140 Execute <command> non-interactively. This option may appear
141 multiple times. The <command> is passed to the batch inter‐
142 preter. When <command> is - the commands are read from standard
143 input.
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148 GIMP respects a number of environment variables.
149 DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
151 GIMP2_DIRECTORY
153 to get the name of the personal GIMP directory. If unset
154 .gimp-2.4 is used. If this is an absolute path, it is used as
155 is. If it is a relative path, it is taken to be a subdirectory
156 of the home directory.
157 GIMP2_DATADIR
159 to get the base location for data files such as brushes and
160 patterns. If unset /usr/share/gimp/2.0 is used.
161 GIMP2_LOCALEDIR
163 to get the base location for translations. If unset
164 /usr/share/locale is used.
165 GIMP2_PLUGINDIR
167 to get the base location for plug-ins and modules. If unset
168 /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0 is used.
169 GIMP2_SYSCONFDIR
171 to get the location of configuration files. If unset
172 /etc/gimp/2.0 is used.
173 On Linux GIMP can be compiled with support for binary relocati‐
175 bility. This will cause data, plug-ins and configuration files
176 to be searched relative to the location of the gimp executable
177 file unless overridden by the environment variables mentioned
178 above.
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183 GIMP's data files are stored in /usr/share/gimp/2.0, where ${dataroot‐
184 dir} is set on install, but is typically /usr/share. GIMP's system-wide
185 configuration files are stored in /etc/gimp/2.0, where ${prefix} is
186 typically /usr.
187 Most GIMP configuration is read in from the user's init file,
189 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/gimprc. The system wide equivalent is in /etc/gimprc.
190 The system wide file is parsed first and the user gimprc can override
191 the system settings. /etc/gimprc_user is the default gimprc placed in
192 users' home directories the first time GIMP is run.
193 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/devicerc - holds settings for input devices together
195 with the tool, colors, brush, pattern and gradient associated to that
196 device.
197 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/documents - lists all images that have been opened or
199 saved using GIMP.
200 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/gtkrc - users set of GIMP-specific GTK config settings.
202 Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be set here.
203 /etc/gimp/2.0/gtkrc - sytem wide default set of GIMP-specific GTK+ con‐
205 fig settings.
206 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/menurc - user's set of keybindings.
208 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/parasiterc - Stores all persistent GIMP parasites. This
210 file will be rewritten every time you quit GIMP.
211 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/sessionrc - This file takes session-specific info (that
213 is info, you want to keep between two GIMP sessions). You are not sup‐
214 posed to edit it manually, but of course you can do. This file will be
215 entirely rewritten every time you quit GIMP. If this file isn't found,
216 defaults are used.
217 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/templaterc - Image templates are kept in this file. New
219 images can conveniently created from these templates. If this file
220 isn't found, defaults are used.
221 /etc/gimp/2.0/unitrc - default user unit database. It contains the unit
223 definitions for centimeters, meters, feet, yards, typographic points
224 and typographic picas and is placed in users home directories the first
225 time GIMP is ran. If this file isn't found, defaults are used.
226 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/unitrc - This file contains your user unit database.
228 You can modify this list with the unit editor. You are not supposed to
229 edit it manually, but of course you can do. This file will be entirely
230 rewritten every time you quit GIMP.
231 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/plug-ins - location of user installed plug-ins.
233 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/pluginrc - plug-in initialization values are stored
235 here. This file is parsed on startup and regenerated if need be.
236 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/modules - location of user installed modules.
238 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/tmp - default location that GIMP uses as temporary
240 space.
241 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes - system wide brush files.
243 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/brushes - user created and installed brush files. These
245 files are in the .gbr, .gih or .vbr file formats.
246 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/curves - Curve profiles and presets as saved from the
248 Curves tool.
249 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/gimpressionist - Presets and user created brushes and
251 papers are stored here.
252 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/levels - Level profiles and presets as saved from the
254 Levels tool.
255 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/palettes - the system wide palette files.
257 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/palettes - user created and modified palette files.
259 This files are in the .gpl format.
260 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/patterns - basic set of patterns for use in GIMP.
262 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/patterns - user created and installed gimp pattern
264 files. This files are in the .pat format.
265 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/gradients - standard system wide set of gradient
267 files.
268 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/gradients - user created and installed gradient files.
270 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts - system wide directory of scripts used in
272 Script-Fu and other scripting extensions.
273 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/scripts - user created and installed scripts.
275 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/gflares - system wide directory used by the gflare
277 plug-in.
278 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/gflares - user created and installed gflare files.
280 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/gfig - system wide directory used by the gfig plug-
282 in.
283 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/gfig - user created and installed gfig files.
285 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png - the default image used for
287 the GIMP splash screen.
288 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-logo.png - image used in the GIMP about
290 dialog.
291 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/tips/gimp-tips.xml - tips as displayed in the "Tip
293 of the Day" dialog box.
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298 GIMP comes with a default image for the splash screen but it allows
299 system administrators and users to customize the splash screen by pro‐
300 viding other images. The image to be used with the splash screen is
301 chosen as follows:
302 1. GIMP tries to load a random splash screen from the directory
305 $HOME/.gimp-2.4/splashes.
306 2. It then falls back to using $HOME/.gimp-2.4/gimp-splash.png.
308 3. If the user didn't install any custom splash images, a random
310 image is picked from /usr/share/gimp/2.0/splashes.
311 4. As a last resort, GIMP uses the default splash image located at
313 /usr/share/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png.
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318 Any bugs found should be reported to the online bug-tracking system
319 available on the web at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. Before reporting
320 bugs, please check to see if the bug has already been reported.
321 When reporting GIMP bugs, it is important to include a reliable way to
323 reproduce the bug, version number of GIMP (and probably GTK), OS name
324 and version, and any relevant hardware specs. If a bug is causing a
325 crash, it is very useful if a stack trace can be provided. And of
326 course, patches to rectify the bug are even better.
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331 The canonical place to find GIMP info is at http://www.gimp.org/. Here
332 you can find links to just about many other GIMP sites, tutorials, data
333 sets, mailing list archives, and more.
334 There is also a GIMP User Manual available at http://docs.gimp.org/
336 that goes into much more detail about the interactive use of GIMP.
337 The latest version of GIMP and the GTK+ libs is always available at
339 ftp://ftp.gimp.org/.
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344 Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team.
345 With patches, fixes, plug-ins, extensions, scripts, translations, docu‐
347 mentation and more from lots and lots of people all over the world.
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352 gimprc(5), gimptool(1), gimp-remote(1)
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