1TUXPAINT(1) Tux Paint TUXPAINT(1)
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6 tuxpaint -- A drawing program for young children.
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10 tuxpaint [--help --version --usage --copying]
11 tuxpaint [--fullscreen] [--640x480 | --1024x768 | --1280x1024 |
14 --1400x1050 | --1600x1200 | --WxH ] [--startblank] [--nosound]
15 [--noquit] [--noprint] [--printdelay=SECONDS] [--printcfg]
16 [--simpleshapes] [--uppercase] [--grab] [--noshortcuts]
17 [--nowheelmouse] [--nobuttondistinction] [--nofancycursors]
18 [--nooutlines] [--nostamps] [--nostampcontrols] [--mir‐
19 rorstamps] [--keyboard] [--nosysfonts] [--savedir DIR]
20 [--saveover] [--saveovernew] [--nosave] [--colorfile FILE]
21 tuxpaint (defaults)
24 [--windowed] [--800x600] [--startlast] [--sound] [--quit]
25 [--print] [--printdelay=0] [--noprintcfg] [--complexshapes]
26 [--mixedcase] [--dontgrab] [--shortcuts] [--wheelmouse]
27 [--buttondistinction] [--fancycursors] [--outlines] [--stamps]
28 [--stampcontrols] [--dontmirrorstamps] [--mouse] [--sysfonts]
29 [--saveoverask] [--save]
30 tuxpaint [--locale LOCALE]
33 tuxpaint [--lang LANGUAGE | --lang help]
36 tuxpaint [--nosysconfig] [--nolockfile]
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42 Tux Paint is a drawing program for young children. It is meant to be
43 easy and fun to use. It provides a simple interface and fixed canvas
44 size, and provides access to previous images using a thumbnail browser
45 (i.e., no access to the underlying filesystem).
46 Unlike popular drawing programs like "The GIMP," it has a very limited
48 toolset. However, it provides a much simpler interface, and has enter‐
49 taining, child-oriented additions such as sound effects.
50
53 --help Display short, helpful information about Tux Paint.
54 --version
56 Output the version info.
57 --usage Display a list of all commandline options.
59 --copying
61 Show the license (GNU GPL) under which Tux Paint is released.
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65 tuxpaint accepts the following options to alter the interface. They
66 can be used along with, instead of, or to override options set in con‐
67 figuration files. (See below.)
68 --fullscreen --windowed
70 Run Tux Paint in full-screen mode, or in a window (default).
71 --800x600 --1024x768 -- 1280x1024 --1400x1050 --1600x1200 --640x480
74 Run Tux Paint at higher resolution, or 640x480 resolution
75 (default).
76 --nosound --sound
79 Disable or enable (default) sound.
80 --noquit --quit
83 Disable or enable (default) the on-screen Quit button and
84 Escape key sequence for quitting Tux Paint. Instead, use the
85 window close button in the titlebar, the Alt+F4 key sequence,
86 or the Shift+Control+Escape key sequence.
87 --noprint --print
90 Disable or enable (default) the Print command within Tux Paint.
91 --printdelay=SECONDS --printdelay=0
94 Only allow printing (via the Print command) once every SECONDS
95 seconds. Default is 0 (no limitation).
96 --printcfg --noprintcfg
99 (Windows only.) Enable or disable loading and saving of
100 printer settings. By default, Tux Paint will print to the
101 default printer with default settings. Pressing [ALT] while
102 pushing the Print button will cause a Windows printer dialog to
103 appear (as long as you're not in fullscreen mode.) If --print‐
104 cfg is used, your previous settings will be loaded when Tux
105 Paint starts up, and setting changes will be saved for next
106 time.
107 --simpleshapes --complexshapes
110 Disable or enable (default) the rotation step when using the
111 Shape tool within Tux Paint. When disabled, shapes cannot be
112 rotated; however, the interface is easier (click, drag,
113 release), which can be useful for younger or disabled children.
114 --uppercase --mixedcase
117 In uppercase mode, all text prompts and the Text drawing tool
118 will display only uppercase letters. This is useful for chil‐
119 dren who are not yet comfortable with the lowercase character‐
120 set. Default mode is mixed case.
121 --grab --nograb
124 Grab the mouse and keyboard input (if possible), so that the
125 mouse is confined to the Tux Paint window. Default is to not
126 grab.
127 --noshortcuts --shortcuts
130 If noshortcuts mode, keyboard shortcuts (e.g., Ctrl+S for Save)
131 will be disabled. Default mode is shortcuts enabled.
132 --nowheelmouse --wheelmouse
135 By default, the wheel (jog dial) on a mouse will be used to
136 scroll the selector on the right of the screen. This can be
137 disabled, and the wheel completely ignored, with the --nowheel‐
138 mouse option. This is useful for children who aren't yet com‐
139 fortable with the mouse. Default is to support the wheel.
140 --nobuttondistinction --buttondistinction
143 By default, only mouse button #1 (typically the leftmost mouse
144 button on mice with more than one button) can be used for
145 interacting with Tux Paint. With the --nobuttondistinction
146 option, mouse buttons #2 (middle) and #3 (right) can be used,
147 as well. This is useful for children who aren't yet comfort‐
148 able with the mouse. Default is to only recognize button #1.
149 --nofancycursors --fancycursors
152 Disable or enable (default) the 'fancy' mouse pointer shapes in
153 Tux Paint. While the shapes are larger, and context sensitive,
154 some environments have trouble displaying the mouse pointer,
155 and/or leave 'trails' on the screen.
156 --nooutlines --outlines
159 In nooutlines mode, much simpler outlines and 'rubber-band'
160 lines are displayed when using the Lines, Shapes, Stamps and
161 Eraser tools. (This can help when Tux Paint is run on slower
162 computers, or displayed on a remote X display.)
163 --nostamps --stamps
166 With nostamps set, Rubber Stamp images are not loaded, so the
167 Stamps tool will not be available. This option can be used to
168 reduce the time Tux Paint takes to load, and reduce the amount
169 of RAM it requires.
170 --nostampcontrols --stampcontrols
173 Disable or enable (default) buttons to control stamps. Con‐
174 trols include mirror, flip, shrink and grow. (Note: Not all
175 stamps will be controllable in all ways.)
176 --mirrorstamps --dontmirrorstamps
179 With mirrorstamps set, stamps which can be mirrored will appear
180 mirrored by default. This can be useful when used by people
181 who prefer things right-to-left over left-to-right.
182 --keyboard --mouse
185 The keyboard option lets the mouse pointer in Tux Paint be con‐
186 trolled with the keyboard. The arrow keys move the pointer.
187 Spacebar acts as the mouse button.
188 --nosysfonts --sysfonts
191 Tux Paint normally attempts to search for additional TrueType
192 Fonts installed in common places on your system. If this
193 causes trouble, or you'd prefer to only make fonts installed in
194 Tux Paint's directory available, use the nosysfonts option to
195 disable this feature.
196 --savedir DIR
199 Specify where Tux Paint should save files. By default, this is
200 "~/.tuxpaint/saved" under Linux and Unix, and "userdata\" under
201 Windows.
202 --saveover --saveovernew --saveoverask
205 If, when saving a picture, an older version of the file will be
206 overwritten, Tux Paint will, by default, ask for confirmation:
207 either save over the old file, or create a new file. This
208 prompt can be disabled with --saveover (which always saves over
209 older versions of pictures) or --saveovernew (which always
210 saves a new file). The default is to prompt (--saveoverask).
211 --nosave --save
214 The nosave option disables Tux Paint's ability to save files.
215 This can be used in situations where the program is only being
216 used for fun, or in a test environment.
217 --startblank --startlast
220 When you start Tux Paint, it loads the last image that was
221 being worked on. The --startblank option disables this, so it
222 always starts with a blank canvas. The default behavior is
223 --startlast.
224 --colorfile FILE
227 This option allows you to override the default color palette in
228 Tux Paint and replace it with your own. The file should be a
229 plain ASCII text file containing one color description per
230 line. Colors may be in decimal or 6- or 3-digit hexadecimal,
231 and followed by a description. (For example, "#000 Black" and
232 "255 192 64 Orange".)
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236 Various parts of Tux Paint have been translated into numerous lan‐
237 guages. Tux Paint will try its best to honor your locale setting
238 (i.e., the LANG environment variable), if possible. You can also
239 specifically set the language using options on the command-line or in a
240 configuration file.
241 --locale LOCALE
244 Specify the language to use, based on locale name (which is
245 typically of the form language[_territory][.codeset][@modi‐
246 fier], where language is an ISO 639 language code, territory is
247 an ISO 3166 country code, and codeset is a character set or
248 encoding identifier like ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8.)
249 For example, de_DE@euro for German, or pt_BR for Brazilian Por‐
251 tuguese.
252 --lang LANGUAGE
255 Specify the language to use, based on the language's name (as
256 recognized by Tux Paint). Choose one of the language names
257 listed below:
258 - english | american-english
260 - afrikaans
261 - albanian
262 - arabic
263 - basque | euskara
264 - belarusian | bielaruskaja
265 - bokmal
266 - brazilian-portuguese | portuges-brazilian | brazilian
267 - breton | brezhoneg
268 - british | british-english
269 - bulgarian
270 - catalan | catala
271 - chinese | simplified-chinese
272 - croatian | hrvatski
273 - czech | cesky
274 - danish | dansk
275 - dutch
276 - estonian
277 - faroese
278 - finnish | suomi
279 - french | francais
280 - gaelic | irish-gaelic | gaidhlig
281 - galician | galego
282 - georgian
283 - german | deutsch
284 - greek
285 - gronings | zudelk-veenkelonioals
286 - gujarati
287 - hebrew
288 - hindi
289 - hungarian | magyar
290 - icelandic | islenska
291 - indonesian | bahasa-indonesia
292 - italian | italiano
293 - japanese
294 - kinyarwanda
295 - klingon | tlhIngan
296 - korean
297 - kurdish
298 - lithuanian | lietuviu
299 - malay
300 - mexican-spanish | espanol-mejicano | mexican
301 - ndebele
302 - norwegian | nynorsk
303 - polish | polski
304 - portuguese | portugues
305 - romanian
306 - russian | russkiy
307 - scottish | scottish-gaelic | ghaidhlig
308 - serbian
309 - slovak
310 - slovenian | slovensko
311 - southafrican-english
312 - spanish | espanol
313 - swahili
314 - swedish | svenska
315 - tagalog
316 - tamil
317 - thai
318 - tibetan
319 - traditional-chinese
320 - turkish
321 - ukranian
322 - venda
323 - vietnamese
324 - walloon
325 - welsh | cymraeg
326 - xhosa
327 --lang help
330 Display a lists of all supported languages.
331
334 --nosysconfig
335 With this option, Tux Paint will not attempt to read the sys‐
336 tem-wide configuration file (typically /etc/tuxpaint/tux‐
337 paint.conf).
338 --nolockfile
341 By default, Tux Paint uses a lockfile (stored in the user's
342 local Tux Paint directory) which prevents it from being
343 launched more than once in 30 seconds. (Sometimes children get
344 too eager, or user interfaces only require one click, but users
345 think they need to double-click.) This option makes Tux Paint
346 ignore the current lockfile.
347
350 While Tux Paint may refer to a number of environment variables indi‐
351 rectly (e.g., via SDL(3)), it only directly accesses the following:
352 HOME to determine where picture files go when using the Save and
354 Open commands within Tux Paint, to keep track of the current
355 image, when quitting and restarting Tux Paint, and to get the
356 user's configuration file.
357 LANG to determine langauge to use, if setlocale(3) refers to
360 'LC_MESSAGES'.
361
364 /etc/tuxpaint/tuxpaint.conf
365 System-wide configuration file. It is read first (unless the
366 --nosysconfig option was given on the command-line).
367 (Created during installation.)
369 $HOME/.tuxpaintrc
371 User's configuration file. It can be used to set default
372 options (rather than setting them on the command-line every
373 time), and/or to override any settings in the system-wide con‐
374 figuration file.
375 (Not created or edited automatically; must be created manually.
377 You can do this by hand, or use 'Tux Paint Config..')
378 $HOME/.tuxpaint/saved/
380 A directory of previously-saved images (and thumbnails). Only
381 files in this directory will be made available using the Open
382 command within Tux Paint. (See tuxpaint-import(1).)
383 (Created when Save command is used.)
385 $HOME/.tuxpaint/current_id.txt
387 A reference to the image which was being edited when Tux Paint
388 was last quit. (This image is automatically loaded the next
389 time Tux Paint is re-run.)
390 (Created when Tux Paint is Quit.)
392 $HOME/.tuxpaint/lockfile.dat
394 A lockfile that prevents Tux Paint from being launched more
395 than once every 30 seconds. Disable checking the lockfile by
396 using the ´--nolockfile´ command-line argument.
397 (There's no reason to delete the lockfile, as it contains a
399 timestamp inside which causes it to expire after 30 seconds.)
400
403 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
404 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
405 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
406 option) any later version.
407
410 The canonical place to find Tux Paint information is at http://www.new‐
411 breedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/.
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415 Bill Kendrick. <bill@newbreedsoftware.com>
416 With patches, fixes, extensions, translation, documentation and more
418 from lots of people, including, but not limited to:
419 Khalid Al Holan, Daniel Andersson, Ben Armstrong, Dwayne Bailey, Martin
421 Benjamin, Denis Bodor, Herman Bruyninckx, Lucie Burianova, Laurentiu
422 Buzdugan, Albert Cahalan, Pere Pujal Carabantes, Ouychai Chaita, Wei-
423 Lun Chao, Jacques Chion, Urska Colner, Helder Correia, Ricardo Cruz,
424 Laurent Dhima, Yavor Doganov, Dawa Dolma, Kevin Donnelly, Alberto
425 Escudero-Pascual, Doruk Fisek, Dovix, Korvigellou An Drouizig
426 (Philippe), Fabian Franz, Gabriel Gazzan, The Greek Linux i18n Team,
427 Robert Glowczynski, Sam "Criswell" Hart, Tedi Heriyanto, Pjetur G.
428 Hjaltason, Knut Erik Hollund, Song Huang, Karl Ove Hufthammer, Roland
429 Illig, Juan Irigoien, Dmitriy Ivanov, Mogens Jaeger, Lis Gøthe í
430 Jákupsstovu, Nedjeljko Jedvaj, Aleksandar Jelenak, Rasmus Erik Voel
431 Jensen, Wang Jian, Amed Ç. Jiyan, Petri Jooste, Andrej Kacian,
432 Kazuhiko, Gabor Kelemen, Mark Kim, Thomas Klausner, Koby, Marcin
433 'Shard' Konicki, Ines Kovacevic, Mantas Kriauciunas, Niko Lewman, Arka‐
434 diusz Lipiec, Ricky Lontoc, Dag H. Loras, Burkhard Luck, Vincent
435 Mahlangu, Ankit Malik, Fred Ulisses Maranhao, Martin, Marco Milanesi,
436 Kartik Mistry, Mugunth, Steve Murphy, Shumani Mercy Nehulaudzi, Daniel
437 Nylander, Gareth Owen, Flavio Pastor, Patrick, Primoz Peterlin, Le
438 Quang Phan, Henrik Pihl, Pablo Pita, Milan Plzik, John Popplewell,
439 Leandro Regueiro, Robin Rosenberg, Ilir Rugova, Kevin Patrick Scannell,
440 Gia Shervashidze, Clytie Siddall, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Geert Stams,
441 Peter Sterba, Tomasz 'karave' Tarach, Tarmo Toikkanen, Niall Tracey,
442 TOYAMA Shin-ichi, Matej Urban, Rita Verbauskaite, Daniel Jose Viana,
443 Charles Vidal, Damian Yerrick, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi, Eugene
444 Zelenko, and Martin Zhekov.
445
448 tuxpaint-import(1), tuxpaint-config(1), xpaint(1), gpaint(1), gimp(1),
449 kolourpaint(1), krita(1), gcompris(1)
450 And documentation within /usr/[local/]share/doc/tuxpaint/.
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