---
name: "smuxi-frontend-gnome"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "smuxi-frontend-gnome"
version: "1.1-1"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/smuxi-frontend-gnome"
---

# smuxi-frontend-gnome(1)

GNOME frontend for Smuxi chat client

## NAME

**smuxi-frontend-gnome** – GNOME frontend for Smuxi chat client

## SYNOPSIS

**smuxi-frontend-gnome** \[**-dh**\] \[**-e** *engine*\] \[**--new-instance**\] \[**--open** *uri*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**smuxi-frontend-gnome** is a GNOME frontend for the Smuxi chat client, powered by the GTK# library. It can operate standalone or attached to a remote Smuxi engine.

The options are as follows:

- **-d**, **--debug**

  Turn on debugging. Debug logs are sent to *$XDG\_DATA\_HOME/smuxi/smuxi-frontend-gnome.log* , and older logs are moved to the date of usage.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show the arguments Smuxi takes.

- **-e** *engine*, **--engine** *engine*

  Connect to a remote engine.

- **--new-instance**

  Starts a new Smuxi instance and ignores any existing sessions.a

- **--open** *uri*, **--open-link** *uri*

  Opens a URL to an IRC channel, in the following form: ‘irc://irc.example.com/examplechannel’

## FILES

- *$XDG\_DATA\_HOME/smuxi/share/smuxi-frontend-gnome.log*

  smuxi debug log

- *$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/smuxi/smuxi-engine.ini*

  smuxi local engine config

- *$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/smuxi/smuxi-frontend.ini*

  smuxi frontend configuration and remote engine list

## SEE ALSO

[smuxi-frontend-stfl(1)](/smuxi-frontend-stfl/1.md), [smuxi-server(1)](/smuxi-server/1.md), [smuxi-message-buffer(1)](/smuxi-message-buffer/1.md)

Website: https://smuxi.im/

## AUTHOR/CREDITS

Smuxi, including this frontend, was written by Mirco Bauer. Contributions to this frontend were also made by George Karavasilev and Oliver Schneider.

This manpage was written by Calvin Buckley.