plasmoidviewer(1)

plasmoidviewer1

Run plasma widgets in their own window

Usage

plasmoidviewer [-v, --version] [-c, --containmentname] [-a, --appletname] [-f, --formfactorname] [-l, --locationname] [-x, --xPositionxPosition] [-y, --yPositionyPosition] [-s, --sizewidthXheight] [-p, --pixmapcachesize] [-t, --themename] [-h, --help] [args]

Overview

plasmoidviewer is a graphical tool allowing developers to test Plasma applets.

Only installed applets will be found. kbuildsycoca5 may need to be run for newly-installed applets to be found.

Options

-v, --version

Displays version information.

-c, --containment name

The name of the containment plugin.

-a, --applet name

The name of the applet plugin.

-f, --formfactor name

The formfactor to use (horizontal, vertical, mediacenter, planar or application).

-l, --location name

The location constraint to start the Containment with (floating, desktop, fullscreen, topedge, bottomedge, leftedge, rightedge).

-x, --xPosition xPosition

Set the x position of the plasmoidviewer on the Plasma desktop.

-y, --yPosition yPosition

Set the y position of the plasmoidviewer on the Plasma desktop.

-s, --size widthXheight

Set the window size of the plasmoidview.

-p, --pixmapcache size

The size in KB to set the pixmap cache to.

-t, --theme name

The name of the theme which the shell will use.

-h, --help

Displays this help.

args

Data that should be passed to the applet as 'externalData' event.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 7
  2. 10
  3. 11–Arch

--applet since Debian 10 (Buster); --help since Debian 10 (Buster); --size since Debian 10 (Buster); --version since Debian 10 (Buster); --xPosition since Debian 10 (Buster); --yPosition since Debian 10 (Buster); -a since Debian 10 (Buster); -h since Debian 10 (Buster); -v since Debian 10 (Buster); -x since Debian 10 (Buster); -y since Debian 10 (Buster).

--list until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --list-containments until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --list-remote until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --list-wallpapers until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --screenshot until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --screenshot-all until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --wallpaper until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -w until Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Authors

plasmoidviewer was written by Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>.

From plasma-sdk 6.8.2-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.