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zim(1p)

A desktop wiki and outliner

NAME

zim - A desktop wiki and outliner

SYNOPSIS

zim [OPTIONS] [NOTEBOOK [PAGE]]

DESCRIPTION

Zim is a desktop wiki writtin in perl using Gtk2.

Try to execute "zim --doc" to view the user manual.

OPTIONS

--doc

Open the zim documentation.

-l, --list

Show the notebook dialog even if a default notebook is set.

--export OPTIONS

Export pages to another format. OPTIONS should at least contain 'dir' and 'format', and optionally 'template', and 'media'.

Example:

        zim --export dir=./html,format=html ./Wiki

This will export all pages in the notebook dir "./Wiki" to a dir "./html" using the html format.

-p, --profile NAME

Open using a certain profile. For example use "-p reader" to open a notebook read-only.

--pidfile FILE

Write the process id of to FILE.

--geometry WxH[+X+Y]

Set the size of the main window to WxH pixels and position the window at X,Y.

--gtk-path path

Set the path to the gtk+ libraries. Used on win32 when the system does not allow overloading the PATH environment variable.

--iconify

Start zim iconified. If the TrayIcon plugin is enabled this option will start zim in the system tray.

--quiet

Do not print any information to the terminal.

--daemon

Keep a daemon running to kick-start new instances even when no window is open.

--no-daemon

Do not start the daemon but just run in single process mode.

-V, --verbose

Print more verbose information to the terminal.

-D, --debug

Print developer information to the terminal.

-v, --version

Print version and copyright information and quit.

AUTHOR

Jaap Karssenberg <[email protected]>

Copyright (c) 2005, 2008 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.

SEE ALSO

Zim(3)

History

--daemon since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --debug since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --geometry since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --gtk-path since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --iconify since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --list since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --no-daemon since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --profile since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --quiet since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --verbose since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -D since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -V since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -l since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -p since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

--name until Debian 4.0 (Etch).