---
name: "krecipes"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "krecipes-data"
version: "2.1.0-3"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/krecipes"
---

# krecipes(1)

The KDE Cookbook

## NAME

krecipes - The KDE Cookbook

## SYNOPSIS

krecipes \[Qt-options\] \[KDE-options\] \[options\]

## DESCRIPTION

Krecipes is a KDE application designed to manage recipes. It can help you to do your shopping list, search through your recipes to find what you can do with available ingredients and a diet helper. It can also import or export recipes from files in various format (eg RecipeML or Meal-Master) or from databases.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').

**--convert-sqlite3** Convert the current SQLite 2.x database to SQLite 3 and exit

### Generic options:

- **--help**

  Show help about options

- **--help-qt**

  Show Qt specific options

- **--help-kde**

  Show KDE specific options

- **--help-all**

  Show all options

- **--author**

  Show author information

- **-v, --version**

  Show version information

- **--license**

  Show license information

- **--**

  End of options

###

### KDE options:

- **--caption \<caption\>**

  Use 'caption' as name in the titlebar

- **--icon \<icon\>**

  Use 'icon' as the application icon

- **--config \<filename\>**

  Use alternative configuration file

- **--nocrashhandler**

  Disable crash handler, to get core dumps

- **--waitforwm**

  Waits for a WM\_NET compatible windowmanager

- **--style \<style\>**

  Sets the application GUI style

- **--geometry \<geometry\>**

  Sets the client geometry of the main widget - see man X for the argument format

- **--nofork**

  Do not run in the background.

###

### Qt options:

- **--display \<displayname\>**

  Use the X-server display 'displayname'

- **--session \<sessionId\>**

  Restore the application for the given 'sessionId'

- **--cmap**

  Causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display

- **--ncols \<count\>**

  Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification

- **--nograb**

  Tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard

- **--dograb**

  Running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, use -dograb to override

- **--sync**

  Switches to synchronous mode for debugging

- **--fn, --font \<fontname\>**

  Defines the application font

- **--bg, --background \<color\>**

  Sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated)

- **--fg, --foreground \<color\>**

  Sets the default foreground color

- **--btn, --button \<color\>**

  Sets the default button color

- **--name \<name\>**

  Sets the application name

- **--title \<title\>**

  Sets the application title (caption)

- **--visual TrueColor**

  Forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display

- **--inputstyle \<inputstyle\>**

  Sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and root

- **--im \<XIM server\>**

  Set XIM server

- **--noxim**

  Disable XIM

- **--reverse**

  Mirrors the whole layout of widgets

- **--stylesheet \<file.qss\>**

  Applies the Qt stylesheet to the application widgets

- **--graphicssystem \<system\>**

  Use a different graphics system instead of the default one, options are raster and opengl (experimental)

### Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Center. You can also enter the URL

## SEE ALSO

**help:/krecipes/** directly into konqueror or you can run  **\`khelpcenter help:/krecipes/'** from the command-line.\

## AUTHORS

```
Unai Garro <ugarro@users.sourceforge.net>
Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn@gmail.com>
Cyril Bosselut <bosselut@b1project.com>
Daniel Sauvé <megametres@gmail.com>
Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org>
José Manuel Santamaría Lema <panfaust@gmail.com>
```

This manual page was written by Matthias Julius \<mdeb@julius-net.net\> and José Manuel Santamaría Lema \<panfaust@gmail.com\> for the Debian project (and may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.