vmpk1
Virtual midi piano keyboard
Usage
vmpk [options ...]
Overview
This manual page documents briefly the vmpk program.
This program uses standard Qt options.
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player.
Options
The following options apply to vmpk only:
-h|--help
Displays a help text.
-v|--version
Displays version information.
-p|--portable
Enables portable settings mode using a default configuration file name.
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-f path/file.conf -
This option implies
--portableas well. Reads and writes path/file.conf as the portable settings configuration file name.This configuration file is always a text file with INI format, despite the running Operating System conventions.
Options
The following options apply to all Qt5/6 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.
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-widgetcount -
Print debug message at the end about number of widgets left undestroyed and maximum number of widgets existed at the same time.
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-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()).
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-platform platformName[:options] -
Specify the Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA) plugin.
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-platformpluginpath path -
Specify the path to platform plugins.
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-platformtheme platformTheme -
Specify the platform theme.
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-plugin plugin -
Specify additional plugins to load. The argument may appear multiple times.
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-qwindowgeometry geometry -
Specify the window geometry for the main window using the X11-syntax. For example: -qwindowgeometry 100x100+50+50
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-qwindowicon icon -
Set the default window icon.
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-qwindowtitle title -
Set the title of the first window.
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-session session -
Restore the application from an earlier session.
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-display hostname:screen_number -
Switch displays on X11. Overrides the DISPLAY environment variable.
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-geometry geometry -
Specify the window geometry for the main window on X11. For example: -geometry 100x100+50+50
-dialogs= [xp|none]
Only available for the Windows platform. XP uses native style dialogs and none disables them.
-fontengine= freetype
Use the FreeType font engine.
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm)
- Debian 11 (Bullseye)
- Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
-f since Debian 12 (Bookworm);
-platform since Debian 12 (Bookworm);
-platformpluginpath since Debian 12 (Bookworm);
-platformtheme since Debian 12 (Bookworm);
-plugin since Debian 12 (Bookworm);
-qwindowgeometry since Debian 12 (Bookworm);
-qwindowicon since Debian 12 (Bookworm);
-qwindowtitle since Debian 12 (Bookworm).
-cmap until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-graphicssystem until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-im until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-inputstyle until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-name until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-ncols until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-style until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-stylesheet until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-title until Debian 11 (Bullseye);
-visual until Debian 11 (Bullseye).