---
name: "wxmaxima"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wxmaxima"
version: "24.02.1-1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wxmaxima"
---

# wxmaxima(1)

wxWidgets interface for Maxima

## NAME

wxmaxima - wxWidgets interface for Maxima

## SYNOPSIS

**wxmaxima** \[-v\] \[-h\] \[-o \<str\>\] \[-e\] \[-b\] \[--logtostderr\] \[--pipe\] \[--exit-on-error\] \[-f \<str\>\] \[-u \<str\>\] \[-l \<str\>\] \[-X \<str\>\] \[-m \<str\>\] \[--enableipc\] \[input file...\]

## DESCRIPTION

**wxMaxima** is a rather self-explanatory graphical front-end to the Maxima computer algebra system. It provides a graphical interface and 2D formatted output display for Maxima. Its menu system facilitates access to a huge part of the Maxima native set of commands and also to a browsable Maxima help. The dialogue windows make easy the introduction of mathematical entities such as limits, matrices, etc. Besides that, it extends Maxima with a few powerful features like the ability to create diagrams with one parameter bound to a slider gui control.

One can create worksheets, which can include mathematical cells (and the results) but also different headlines, text cells, images, page breaks, etc.

Maxima is a free (GPL) common lisp implementation based on the original computer algebra system Macsyma developed at MIT. It has full documentation (HTML and info) included.

wxMaxima uses the cross-platform GUI toolkit wxWidgets and runs natively on many operative systems.

## OPTIONS

- *-h, --help*

  Help: prints a list of options.

- *-v, --version*

  Prints the current version.

- *-b, --batch*

  processes the file, saves it afterward. Will halt if wxMaxima finds an error message in Maxima's output and pause if Maxima asks a question.

- *-o, --open=\<str\>*

  Open a file at startup.

- *-e, --eval=\<str\>*

  Evaluate the file after opening it.

- *--logtostderr*

  Log all "debug messages" sidebar messages to stderr, too.

- *--pipe*

  Pipe messages from Maxima to stdout.

- *--exit-on-error*

  Close the program on any Maxima error.

- *-f, --ini=\<str\>*

  Allows specifying a file to store the configuration in

- *-u, --use-version=\<str\>*

  Use Maxima version \<str\>.

- *-l, --lisp=\<str\>*

  Use a Maxima compiled with lisp compiler \<str\>.

- *-X, --extra-args=\<str\>*

  Allows to specify extra Maxima arguments

- *-m, --maxima=\<str\>*

  Allows to specify the location of the Maxima binary.

- *--enableipc*

  Lets Maxima control wxMaxima via interprocess communications. Use this option with care.

## FILES

- *~/.config/wxMaxima.conf*

  The personal wxMaxima initialization file, where user-specific settings are stored.

- *~/.maxima/wxmaxima-init.mac*

  If the Maxima user directory - usually *~/.maxima/* - contains a text file named *wxmaxima-init.mac* the contents of the file are passed to Maxima automatically every time a new worksheet has been started.

## BUGS

If you find a bug in wxMaxima, please report it in the wxMaxima bug database ⟨https://github.com/wxMaxima-developers/wxmaxima/issues⟩

(Please check first, if it was not already reported.) And if you have a fix, that would be great. wxMaxima is an open-source project, where you can contribute.

If the issue is a mathematical bug, it might be a bug in Maxima (the backend, which does the mathematical computations), not wxMaxima (the graphical frontend).

The Maxima bug database is available at Sourceforge ⟨https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/⟩

## AUTHORS

- •

  J. Rafael Rodriguez Galvan (Debian project), original author of the manual page

- •

  Gunter Königsmann (wxMaxima project)

- •

  Wolfgang Dautermannn (wxMaxima project)

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.

## SEE ALSO

**[maxima(1)](/maxima/1.md),** **[xmaxima(1)](/xmaxima/1.md)**

The website of wxMaxima ⟨https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/⟩

wxMaxima documentation and tutorials ⟨https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/help.html⟩