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GIMP(1) 1.0 GIMP(1)
NAME
Gimp - an image manipulation and paint program.
SYNOPSIS
gimp [-h] [--help] [-v] [--version] [-b] [--batch <commands>] [-n]
[--no-interface] [--no-data] [--verbose] [--no-shm] [--no-xshm] [--dis‐
play display] [--no-splash] [--no-splash-image] [--debug-handlers]
[--console-messages]
DESCRIPTION
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is used to edit and
manipulate images. It can load and save a variety of image formats and
can be used to convert between formats.
Gimp can also be used as a paint program. It features a set of drawing
and painting tools such as airbrush, clone, pencil, and paint brush.
Painting and drawing tools can be applied to an image with a variety of
paint modes. It also offers an extensive array of selection tools like
rectangle, ellipse, fuzzy select, bezier select, intelligent scissors,
and select by color.
Gimp offers a variety of plugins that perform a variety of image manip‐
ulations. Examples include bumpmap, edge detect, gaussian blur, and
many others.
In addition, Gimp has several scripting extension which allow for
advanced non-interactive processing and creation of images.
OPTIONS
The gimp accepts the following options:
-h, --help
Display a list of all commandline options.
-v, --version
Output the version info.
-b, --batch <commands>
Execute the set of <commands> non-interactively. The set of
<commands> is typically in the form of a script that can be
executed by one of the Gimp scripting extensions.
-n, --no-interface
Run without a user interface.
--no-data
Do not load patterns, gradients, palettes, or brushes. Often
useful in non-interactive situations where startup time is to
be minimized.
--verbose
Show startup messages.
--no-shm
Do not use shared memory between GIMP and its plugins. Instead
of using shared memory, GIMP will send the data via pipe. This
will result in slower performance than using shared memory.
--no-xshm
Do not use the X Shared Memory extension. If GIMP is being dis‐
played on a remote X server, this probably needs to be enabled.
Also useful for any X server that doesn't properly support the
X shared memory extension. This will result in slower perfor‐
mance than with X shared memory enabled.
--display display
Use the designated X display.
--no-splash
Do not show the splash screen.
--no-splash-image
Do not show the splash screen image as part of the splash
screen.
--debug-handlers
Enable debugging signal handlers.
--console-messages
Do not popup dialog boxes on errors or warnings. Print the mes‐
sages on the console instead.
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
FILES
Most gimp configuration is read in from the users init file,
$HOME/.gimp/gimprc. The system wide equivalent is in $PRE‐
FIX/share/gimp/gimprc. The system wide file is parsed first and the
user gimprc can override the sytem settings. $PREFIX/share/gimp/gim‐
prc_user is the default gimprc placed in users home directories the
first time gimp is ran.
$HOME/.gimp/gtkrc - users set of GTK config settings. Options such as
widget color and fonts sizes can be set here.
$PREFIX/share/gtkrc - sytem wide default set of GTK config settings.
$HOME/.gimp/menurc - user's set of keybindings.
$PREFIX/share/menurc - system wide set of keybindings.
$HOME/.gimp/plug-ins - location of user installed plugins.
$HOME/.gimp/pluginrc - plugin initialization values are stored here.
This file is parsed on startup and regenerated if need be.
$HOME/.gimp/tmp - default location that gimp uses as temporary space.
Gimp's data files are stored in $PREFIX/share/gimp where $PREFIX is set
on install, but is typically /usr/local.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/brushes - system wide brush files.
$HOME/.gimp/brushes - user created and installed brush files. This
files are in the .gbr (gimp brush) format.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/palettes - the system wide palette files. The files
are copied to the user palettes directory when gimp is first ran to
allow the user to modify the palettes. This directory is not searched
for palettes by default.
$HOME/.gimp/palettes - copies of the system palette files as well as
user created and modified palette files.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/patterns - basic set of patterns for use in gimp.
$HOME/.gimp/patterns - user created and installed gimp pattern files.
This files are in the .pat format.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/gradients - standard system wide set of gradient
files.
$HOME/.gimp/gradients - user created and installed gradient files.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/palettes - system wide palette files.
$HOME/.gimp/palettes - user created and installed palette files.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/scripts - system wide directory of scripts used in
Script-Fu and other scripting extensions.
$HOME/.gimp/scripts - user created and installed scripts.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/gflares - system wide directory used by the gflare
plug-in.
$HOME/.gimp/gflares - user created and installed gflare files.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/gfig - system wide directory used by the gfig plug-
in.
$HOME/.gimp/gfig - user created and installed gfig files.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/gimp_splash.ppm - graphic file used for the gimp
splash screen.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/gimp_logo.ppm - graphic file used in the gimp about
dialog.
$PREFIX/share/gimp/gimp_tips.txt - list of tips displayed in the "Tip
of the Day" dialog box.
SEE ALSO
X(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1995 Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro‐
vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup‐
porting documentation.
SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS
Any bugs found should be reported to the Gimp Developer mailing list at
gimp-developer@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu or you may want to make use of the
online bug-tracking system available on the web at http://www.wilber‐
works.com/bugs.html.
Before reporting bugs, please check to see if the bug is mentioned in
the FAQ's or the mailing list archive. See the section on Other Info
for locations of these.
When reporting Gimp bugs, it is important to include a reliable way to
reproduce the bug, version number of Gimp (and probably GTK), OS name
and version, and any relevant hardware specs. It is also very important
to include as much info as possible about the Xserver the problem was
found on including at least server name, the visual, and the bit depth.
If a bug is causing a crash, it is very useful if a stack trace can be
provided. And of course, patches to rectify the bug are even better.
OTHER INFO
The canonical place to find GIMP info is at http://www.gimp.org. Here
you can find links to just about every other gimp site, tutorials, data
sets, mailing list archives, and more.
There is also a Gimp User Manual available at
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d95olofs/manual/ that goes into much more
detail about the interactive use of Gimp.
The latest version of Gimp and the gtk libs is always available at
ftp://ftp.gimp.org.
AUTHORS
Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis.
With patches, fixes, plugins, extensions, scripts and more from lots
and lots of people including but not limited to Lauri Alanko, Shawn
Amundson, John Beale, Zach Beane, Tom Bech, Marc Bless, Edward Blevins,
Roberto Boyd, Seth Burgess, Brent Burton, Ed Connel, Andreas Dilger,
Larry Ewing, David Forsyth, Jim Geuther, Scott Goehring, Heiko Goller,
Michael Hammel, Christoph Hoegl, Jan Hubicka, Simon Janes, Ben Jackson,
Tim Janik, Tuomas Kuosmanen, Peter Kirchgessner, Karl LaRocca, Jens
Lautenbacher, Laramie Leavitt, Raph Levien, Adrian Likins, Ingo Luetke‐
bohle, Josh MacDonald, Ed Mackey, Marcelo Malheiros, Ian Main, Torsten
Martinsen, Federico Mena, Adam D. Moss, Shuji Narazaki, Sven Neumann,
Stephen Robert Norris, Erik Nygren, Miles O'Neal, Jay Painter, Mike
Phillips, Raphael Quinet, James Robinson, Mike Schaeffer, Tracy Scott,
Manish Singh, Nathan Summers, Mike Sweet, Eiichi Takamori, Tristan Tar‐
rant, Owen Taylor, Ian Tester, James Wang, Kris Wehner.
Version 31 May 1998 GIMP(1)
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