User Guide

CHAPTER 15. COMMAND LINE OPTIONS 176
-no-splash-image Do not show the splash screen image as part of the splash screen.
Only shows text information in the splash screen. The progress indicator is still
visible. This decreases GIMP’s load time.
-no-shm Do not use shared memory between GIMP and its plug-ins. Instead of using
shared memory, GIMP will send data via pipe. This will result in slower perfor-
mance than using shared memory.
-no-xshm Do not use the X Shared Memory extension. If GIMP is being displayed
on a remote X server, this probably needs to be enabled. It is also useful for any
X server that doesn’t properly support the X shared memory extension. This will
result in slower performance than with X shared memory enabled.
-displaydisplay Use the specified X display.
-console-messages Do not pop-up dialog boxes on errors or warning, print them to
the console instead.
-debug-handlers Enable debug handlers which turns on the stack trace prompt for
all signals, not just fatal ones.
-system-gimprcgimprc Use an alternate system-wide gimprc file.
15.2 GIMP Tool
gimptool is a support script for GIMP which allows you to build and install scripts and
plug-ins, and can provide information to other programs about the libraries and paths
that GIMP was compiled with. The format is: gimptooloptions ... GIMP Tool
Options
-help Displays a list of available options, and gives a terse description of each one.
-version Prints the version number of the installed GIMP.
-quiet Runs without printing any of the build commands.
-n -dry-run Print commands, but don’t actually execute them. Useful for making
dry-runs for testing.
-bindir Prints the bindir used to install GIMP.
-sbindir Prints the sbindir used to install GIMP.
-libexecdir Prints the libexecdir used to install GIMP.
-datadir Prints the datadir used to install GIMP.
-sysconfdir Prints the sysconfdir used to install GIMP.
-sharedstatedir Prints the sharedstatedir used to install GIMP.
-localstatedir Prints the localstatedir used to install GIMP.