---
name: "gnome-iconedit"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnome-iconedit"
version: "1.2.0-11"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gnome-iconedit"
---

# gnome-iconedit(1)

a GNOME application to edit icons easily

## NAME

gnome-iconedit - a GNOME application to edit icons easily

## SYNOPSIS

**gnome-iconedit** \[*OPTION*...\] \[*FILE*...\]

## DESCRIPTION

**gnome-iconedit** is an application to edit icons easily. Save them as PNG or XPM (useful for cursors and button pixmaps) with 8-bit alpha in 16.7 million colours. Icon size is only limited by memory.

## USAGE

One or more *FILE*s may be specified on the command-line. **gnome-iconedit** will create a separate window for each document.  The file given must be a valid image file.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`--'). A summary of the options supported by **gnome-iconedit** is included below.

### GNOME options

- **--disable-sound**

  Disable sound server usage

- **--enable-sound**

  Enable sound server usage

- **--espeaker=***HOSTNAME:PORT*

  Host:port on which the sound server to use is running

- **--version**

  Print version number and exit.

### Help options

- **\\-?, \\-\\-help**

  Show this help message

- **--usage**

  Display brief usage message

### GTK options

**--gdk-debug=***FLAGS* Gdk debugging flags to set

- **--gdk-no-debug=***FLAGS*

  Gdk debugging flags to unset

- **--display= DISPLAY**

  X display to use

- **--sync**

  Make X calls synchronous

- **--no-xshm**

  Don't use X shared memory extension

- **--name=***NAME*

  Program name as used by the window manager

- **--class=***CLASS*

  Program class as used by the window manager

- **--gxid\_host=***HOST*

  - **--gxid\_port=***PORT*

  - **--xim-preedit=***STYLE*

  - **--xim-status=***STYLE*

  - **--gtk-debug=***FLAGS*

  Gtk+ debugging flags to set

- **--gtk-no-debug=***FLAGS*

  Gtk+ debugging flags to unset

- **--g-fatal-warnings**

  Make all warnings fatal

- **--gtk-module=***MODULE*

  Load an additional Gtk module

### GNOME GUI options

- **--disable-crash-dialog**

  ### Session management options

- **--sm-client-id=***ID*

  Specify session management ID

- **--sm-config-prefix=***PREFIX*

  Specify prefix of saved configuration

- **--sm-disable**

  Disable connection to session manager

## SEE ALSO

*http://www.gnome.org*

## AUTHOR

Iain Holmes \<terrorist@gegl.org\>\
 Havoc Pennington \<hp@redhat.com\>

This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann \<jschauma@netmeister.org\> as part of "The Missing Man Pages Project".  Please see *http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html* for details.