---
name: "rosegarden4"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rosegarden4"
version: "1.0-1"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rosegarden4"
---

# rosegarden4(1)

MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor.

## NAME

rosegarden4 — MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor.

## SYNOPSIS

**rosegarden4** \[*Qt-options\]  \[KDE-options\]  \[options\]  \[File\]*

**rosegardensequencer** *\[Qt-options\]  \[KDE-options\]  \[playback\_1 playback\_2 capture\_1 capture\_2\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **rosegarden4** *and* **rosegardensequencer** *commands.*

**rosegarden4** *is a MIDI and audio sequencer, notation editor, and* *general-purpose music composition and editing application for Unix and* *Linux.  It is a KDE application, which means to build it you need the* *KDE 3.x libraries. However, once installed it can be run within the* *KDE environment or any other desktop or window manager environment.*

**rosegardensequencer** *is part of the rosegarden4 application, the* *part which knows about and audio MIDI devices, and about real time.* **rosegardensequencer** *is executed automatically* *when rosegarden4 starts, so you will probably never need to execute it* *directly. You may want to specify command line options, though, to* *change the JACK ports used for audio capture and playback. In order to* *do that, you can invoque* **rosegardensequencer** *directly before* *running rosegarden4, or you can specify the sequencer command line* *arguments using the rosegarden4 configuration dialog, and restarting* *the application.*

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

## SPECIFIC OPTIONS FOR rosegarden4

- **--nosplash**

  *Don't show splash screen.*

- **--nosequencer**

  *Don't use an external sequencer.*

- **--nofork**

  *Don't automatically run in the background.*

- **--existingsequencer**

  *Attach to a running sequencer process, if found.*

- *File*

  *File to load at startup. Tipically a rosegarden4 (.rg) file, but it can also be* *a rosegarden2.1 file or a MIDI file.*

## SPECIFIC OPTIONS for rosegardensequencer

- *playback\_1 playback\_2 capture\_1 capture\_2*

  *JACK playback and capture ports*

## GENERIC OPTIONS

- **--author**

  *Show author information.*

- **--help**

  *Show help about options.*

- **--help-all**

  *Show all options.*

- **--help-kde**

  *Show KDE specific options.*

- **--help-qt**

  *Show Qt specific options.*

- **--license**

  *Show license information.*

- **-v**, **--version**

  *Show version information.*

## QT OPTIONS

- **--bg**, **--background** *color*

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

- **--btn**, **--button** *color*

  *Sets the default button color.*

- **--cmap**

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

- **--display** *displayname*

  *Use the X-server display 'displayname'.*

- **--dograb**

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

- **--fg**, **--foreground** *color*

  *Sets the default foreground color.*

- **--fn**, **--font** *fontname*

  *Defines the application font.*

- **--im** *XIMserver*

  *Set XIM server.*

- **--inputstyle** *inputstyle*

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

- **--name** *name*

  *Sets the application name.*

- **--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.*

- **--noxim**

  *Disable XIM.*

- **--reverse**

  *Mirrors the whole layout of widgets.*

- **--session** *sessionId*

  *Restore the application for the given 'sessionId'.*

- **--sync**

  *Switches to synchronous mode for debugging.*

- **--title** *title*

  *Sets the application title (caption).*

- **--visual TrueColor**

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

## KDE OPTIONS

- **--caption** *caption*

  *Use 'caption' as name in the titlebar.*

- **--config** *filename*

  *Use alternative configuration file.*

- **--dcopserver** *server*

  *Use the DCOP Server specified by 'server'.*

- **--geometry** *geometry*

  *Sets the client geometry of the main widget.*

- **--icon** *icon*

  *Use 'icon' as the application icon.*

- **--miniicon** *icon*

  *Use 'icon' as the icon in the titlebar.*

- **--nocrashhandler**

  *Disable crash handler, to get core dumps.*

- **--style** *style*

  *Sets the application GUI style.*

- **--waitforwm**

  *Waits for a WM\_NET compatible windowmanager.*

## SEE ALSO

[**jackd**(1)](/jackd/1.md)

*In Debian GNU/Linux systems, some more documentation is available* *under /usr/share/doc/rosegarden4.*

## AUTHOR

*This manual page was written by Enrique Robledo Arnuncio \<era@debian.org\> for*  *the* **Debian** *system (but may be used by others).  Permission is*  *granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under*  *the terms of the GNU Free Documentation*  *License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free*  *Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover*  *Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.*