kmidimon1

Drumstick midi monitor using alsa sequencer and qt user interface

Usage

kmidimon [options] [file]

Overview

Drumstick MIDI Monitor records events coming from a MIDI external port or application via the ALSA sequencer, or stored as Standard MIDI Files (SMF), RIFF MIDI (RMI) or Cakewalk (WRK) files. It is especially useful if you want to debug MIDI software or your MIDI setup. It features a nice graphical user interface, customizable event filters and sequencer parameters, support for all MIDI messages and some ALSA messages, and saving the recorded event list to a text file or SMF.

Generic options

--help: Show help about options

--help-all: Show all options

-v,--version: Show version information

QT options

The following options apply to all Qt5 applications.

-style= style / -style style: Set the application GUI style. Possible values depend on the system configuration. If Qt is compiled with additional styles or has additional styles as plugins these will be available to the -style command line option.

-stylesheet= stylesheet / -stylesheet stylesheet: Set the application styleSheet. The value must be a path to a file that contains the Style Sheet.

-widgetcount: Print debug message at the end about number of widgets left undestroyed and maximum number of widgets existed at the same time.

-reverse: Set the application’s layout direction to Qt::RightToLeft. This option is intended to aid debugging and should not be used in production. The default value is automatically detected from the user’s locale (see also QLocale::textDirection()).

-platform platformName[:options]: Specify the Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA) plugin.

-platformpluginpath path: Specify the path to platform plugins.

-platformtheme platformTheme: Specify the platform theme.

-plugin plugin: Specify additional plugins to load. The argument may appear multiple times.

-qwindowgeometry geometry: Specify the window geometry for the main window using the X11-syntax. For example: -qwindowgeometry 100x100+50+50

-qwindowicon icon: Set the default window icon.

-qwindowtitle title: Set the title of the first window.

-session session: Restore the application from an earlier session.

-display hostname:screen_number: Switch displays on X11. Overrides the DISPLAY environment variable.

-geometry geometry: Specify the window geometry for the main window on X11. For example: -geometry 100x100+50+50

-fontengine= freetype: Use the FreeType font engine.

Arguments

file: Input SMF/RMI/KAR/WRK file name.

History

Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 9 (Stretch)
Debian 8 (Jessie)
Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

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