---
name: "doomsday-shell-text"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "doomsday-server"
version: "2.3.1+ds1-1+b4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/doomsday-shell-text"
---

# doomsday-shell-text(6)

Utility for controlling and monitoring Doomsday servers

## NAME

doomsday-shell-text - Utility for controlling and monitoring Doomsday servers

## SYNOPSIS

**doomsday-shell-text**

## OPTIONS

This version of  **doomsday-shell-text** does not support any command line options.

## INTRODUCTION

The Shell is a utility for controlling and monitoring Doomsday servers. It has a curses-based terminal-friendly UI that allows one to connect to local and remote Doomsday servers. One can also start new servers on the local machine.

Once connected to a server, a console command line is provided for controlling the server.

## USER INTERFACE

### Menu

Press F9, ^C, or ^Z to open the menu.

- Connect to...

  Open a connection to a server at a given IP address.

- Disconnect

  Disconnect the current connection. The server will not be stopped.

- Start local server

  Starts a new Doomsday server on the local machine. A dialog will open for configuring the game mode, server's TCP port, and other launch options. You must ensure that Doomsday will be able to locate the required IWAD files (https://manual.dengine.net/IWAD). After the server launches, a connection to it is opened automatically.

- Scroll to bottom

  Scrolls the log entry history down to the bottom of the buffer, to the latest received log entry.

- About

  Information about the Shell utility.

- Exit

  Exit the Shell. Any running servers will not be stopped.

### Console

A console command line is provided for interacting with a connected server. These commands will get you started:

- help

  Show some general level help about using the console interface.

- apropos

  Look up commands and variables containing a specific word.

The PageUp and PageDown keys scroll the log entry history.

## SEE ALSO

[doomsday(6)](/doomsday/6.md)

## AUTHOR

This documentation has been written by Jaakko Keränen \<jaakko.keranen@iki.fi\>.