tuxpaint

TUXPAINT(1)                        Tux Paint                       TUXPAINT(1)



NAME
       tuxpaint -- "Tux Paint", a drawing program for young children.


SYNOPSYS
       tuxpaint [--help --version --verbose-version --usage --copying]


       tuxpaint [--fullscreen]
                [--allowscreensaver]
                [--WIDTHxHEIGHT]
                [--native]
                [--orient=portrait]
                [--startblank]
                [--nosound]
                [--noquit]
                [--noprint]
                [--printdelay=SECONDS]
                [--printcfg]
                [--altprintalways | --altprintnever]
                [--papersize PAPERSIZE | --papersize help]
                [--simpleshapes]
                [--uppercase]
                [--grab]
                [--noshortcuts]
                [--nowheelmouse]
                [--nobuttondistinction]
                [--nofancycursors]
                [--hidecursor]
                [--nooutlines]
                [--nostamps]
                [--nostampcontrols]
                [--nomagiccontrols]
                [--mirrorstamps]
                [--stampsize=SIZE]
                [--keyboard]
                [--nosysfonts]
                [--alllocalefonts]
                [--savedir DIR]
                [--datadir DIR]
                [--saveover]
                [--saveovernew]
                [--nosave]
                [--autosave]
                [--colorfile FILE]


       tuxpaint (defaults)
                [--windowed]
                [--disablescreensaver]
                [--800x600]
                [--orient=landscape]
                [--startlast]
                [--sound]
                [--quit]
                [--print]
                [--printdelay=0]
                [--noprintcfg]
                [--altprintmod]
                [--complexshapes]
                [--mixedcase]
                [--dontgrab]
                [--shortcuts]
                [--wheelmouse]
                [--buttondistinction]
                [--fancycursors]
                [--showcursor]
                [--outlines]
                [--stamps]
                [--stampcontrols]
                [--magiccontrols]
                [--dontmirrorstamps]
                [--stampsize=default]
                [--mouse]
                [--sysfonts]
                [--currentlocalefont]
                [--saveoverask]
                [--save]
                [--noautosave]


       tuxpaint [--locale LOCALE]


       tuxpaint [--lang LANGUAGE | --lang help]


       tuxpaint [--nosysconfig]
                [--nolockfile]


DESCRIPTION
       Tux  Paint  is a drawing program for young children.  It is meant to be
       easy and fun to use.  It provides a simple interface and  fixed  canvas
       size,  and provides access to previous images using a thumbnail browser
       (i.e., no access to the underlying filesystem).

       Unlike popular drawing programs like "The GIMP," it has a very  limited
       toolset.  However, it provides a much simpler interface, and has enter‐
       taining, child-oriented additions such as sound effects.


OPTIONS - INFORMATIONAL
       --help  Display short, helpful information about Tux Paint.

       --version
               Output the version info.

       --verbose-version
               Output the version info and compile-time build options.

       --usage Display a list of all commandline options.

       --copying
               Show the license (GNU GPL) under which Tux Paint is released.


OPTIONS - INTERFACE
       tuxpaint accepts the following options to alter  the  interface.   They
       can  be used along with, instead of, or to override options set in con‐
       figuration files. (See below.)

       --fullscreen --windowed
               Run Tux Paint in full-screen mode, or in a window (default).


       --allowscreensaver --disablescreensaver
               Normally,   tuxpaint    disables    your    screensaver.    Use
               --allowscreensaver to prevent this from happening.


       --native
               When  in fullscreen mode, use the system's default screen reso‐
               lution.


       --WIDTHxHEIGHT
               Run Tux Paint in a particularly-sized window, or at a  particu‐
               lar  fullscreen  resolution (if --native is not used).  Default
               is 800x600.  Minimum width is  640.   Minimum  height  is  480.
               Portrait  and landscape orientations are both supported.  (Also
               see --orient, below.)


       --orient=landscape --orient=portrait
               If --orient=portraitis set, asks Tux Paint to  swap  the  WIDTH
               and  HEIGHT  values  it  uses  for windowed or fullscreen mode,
               without having to actually change the WIDTH and  HEIGHT  values
               in the configuration file or on the command-line. (This is use‐
               ful on devices where the screen can  be  rotated,  e.g.  tablet
               PCs.)


       --nosound --sound
               Disable or enable (default) sound.


       --noquit --quit
               Disable  or  enable  (default)  the  on-screen  Quit button and
               Escape key sequence for quitting Tux Paint.  Instead,  use  the
               window  close  button in the titlebar, the Alt+F4 key sequence,
               or the Shift+Control+Escape key sequence.


       --noprint --print
               Disable or enable (default) the Print command within Tux Paint.


       --printdelay=SECONDS --printdelay=0
               Only allow printing (via the Print command) once every  SECONDS
               seconds.  Default is 0 (no limitation).


       --printcfg --noprintcfg
               (Windows  and  Mac  OS  X only.)  Enable or disable loading and
               saving of printer settings.  By default, Tux Paint  will  print
               to  the  default printer with default settings.  Pressing [ALT]
               while pushing the Print button will cause a printer  dialog  to
               appear  (as  long  as  you're  not in fullscreen mode; see also
               --altprintalways   and   --altprintnever,    below.)     Unless
               --noprintcfg  is  used,  your  previous settings will be loaded
               when Tux Paint starts up, and setting changes will be saved for
               next time.


       --altprintmod --altprintnever --altprintalways
               These  options control whether an system printer dialog appears
               when the user clicks the Print button.  By default (--altprint‐
               mod),  pressing [ALT] while clicking Print will bring up a dia‐
               log (unless you're in fullscreen mode).  With --altprintalways,
               the dialog will always appear, even if [ALT] is not being held.
               With --altprintnever, the dialog will  never  appear,  even  if
               [ALT] is being held.


       --papersize PAPERSIZE
               (Only  when PostScript printing is used - not Windows, Mac OS X
               or BeOS.)  Ask Tux Paint to generate PostScript of a particular
               paper  size.  Valid sizes are those supported by libpaper.  See
               papersize(5).


       --simpleshapes --complexshapes
               Disable or enable (default) the rotation step  when  using  the
               Shape  tool  within Tux Paint.  When disabled, shapes cannot be
               rotated;  however,  the  interface  is  easier  (click,   drag,
               release), which can be useful for younger or disabled children.


       --uppercase --mixedcase
               In  uppercase  mode, all text prompts and the Text drawing tool
               will display only uppercase letters.  This is useful for  chil‐
               dren  who are not yet comfortable with the lowercase character‐
               set.  Default mode is mixed case.


       --grab --nograb
               Grab the mouse and keyboard input (if possible),  so  that  the
               mouse  is  confined to the Tux Paint window.  Default is to not
               grab.


       --noshortcuts --shortcuts
               If noshortcuts mode, keyboard shortcuts (e.g., Ctrl+S for Save)
               will be disabled.  Default mode is shortcuts enabled.


       --nowheelmouse --wheelmouse
               By  default,  the  wheel  (jog dial) on a mouse will be used to
               scroll the selector on the right of the screen.   This  can  be
               disabled, and the wheel completely ignored, with the --nowheel‐
               mouse option.  This is useful for children who aren't yet  com‐
               fortable with the mouse.  Default is to support the wheel.


       --nobuttondistinction --buttondistinction
               By  default, only mouse button #1 (typically the leftmost mouse
               button on mice with more than  one  button)  can  be  used  for
               interacting  with  Tux  Paint.   With the --nobuttondistinction
               option, mouse buttons #2 (middle) and #3 (right) can  be  used,
               as  well.   This is useful for children who aren't yet comfort‐
               able with the mouse.  Default is to only recognize button #1.


       --nofancycursors --fancycursors
               Disable or enable (default) the 'fancy' mouse pointer shapes in
               Tux Paint.  While the shapes are larger, and context sensitive,
               some environments have trouble displaying  the  mouse  pointer,
               and/or leave 'trails' on the screen.


       --hidecursor --showcursor
               Completely  hide,  or enable (default) the mouse pointer in Tux
               Paint.  This can be useful  on  touchscreen  devices,  such  as
               tablet PCs.


       --nooutlines --outlines
               In  nooutlines  mode,  much  simpler outlines and 'rubber-band'
               lines are displayed when using the Lines,  Shapes,  Stamps  and
               Eraser  tools.  (This  can help when Tux Paint is run on slower
               computers, or displayed on a remote X display.)


       --nostamps --stamps
               With nostamps set, Rubber Stamp images are not loaded,  so  the
               Stamps  tool will not be available.  This option can be used to
               reduce the time Tux Paint takes to load, and reduce the  amount
               of RAM it requires.


       --nostampcontrols --stampcontrols
               Disable  or  enable  (default) buttons to control stamps.  Con‐
               trols include mirror, flip, shrink and grow.   (Note:  Not  all
               stamps will be controllable in all ways.)


       --nomagiccontrols --magiccontrols
               Disable  or  enable  (default)  buttons to control Magic tools.
               Controls include controlling whether a Magic tool is used  like
               a  paint  brush,  or  if  it  affects the entire image at once.
               (Note: Not all Magic tools will be controllable.)


       --mirrorstamps --dontmirrorstamps
               With mirrorstamps set, stamps which can be mirrored will appear
               mirrored  by  default.   This can be useful when used by people
               who prefer things right-to-left over left-to-right.


       --stampsize=size --stampsize=default
               Sets the default size of all stamps, relative to their possible
               sizes (determined by Tux Paint, based on the dimensions of both
               the stamps themselves, and the drawing canvas).   Valid  values
               are  from 0 (smallest) to 10 (largest).  Use default to let Tux
               Paint choose (this is the default setting).


       --keyboard --mouse
               The keyboard option lets the mouse pointer in Tux Paint be con‐
               trolled  with  the  keyboard.  The arrow keys move the pointer.
               Spacebar acts as the mouse button.


       --nosysfonts --sysfonts
               Tux Paint normally attempts to search for  additional  TrueType
               Fonts  installed  in  common  places  on  your system.  If this
               causes trouble, or you'd prefer to only make fonts installed in
               Tux  Paint's  directory available, use the nosysfonts option to
               disable this feature.


       --alllocalefonts --currentlocalefont
               Tux Paint avoids loading any fonts in its 'locale' font  subdi‐
               rectory,  except any that match the current locale Tux Paint is
               running under.  Use the alllocalefonts option to load all  such
               fonts,  for  use in the "Text" tool. (This is the old behavior,
               prior to version 0.9.21.)


       --savedir DIR
               Specify where Tux Paint should save files.


       --datadir DIR
               Specify where Tux Paint should look  for  personal  data  files
               (brushes, stamps, etc.).


       --saveover --saveovernew --saveoverask
               If, when saving a picture, an older version of the file will be
               overwritten, Tux Paint will, by default, ask for  confirmation:
               either  save  over  the  old  file, or create a new file.  This
               prompt can be disabled with --saveover (which always saves over
               older  versions  of  pictures)  or  --saveovernew (which always
               saves a new file).  The default is to prompt (--saveoverask).


       --nosave --save
               The nosave option disables Tux Paint's ability to  save  files.
               This  can be used in situations where the program is only being
               used for fun, or in a test environment.


       --autosave --noautosave
               The autosave option prevents Tux Paint from asking whether  you
               want to save the current picture when quitting, and assumes you
               do.


       --startblank --startlast
               When you start Tux Paint, it loads  the  last  image  that  was
               being  worked on.  The --startblank option disables this, so it
               always starts with a blank canvas.   The  default  behavior  is
               --startlast.


       --colorfile FILE
               This option allows you to override the default color palette in
               Tux Paint and replace it with your own. The file  should  be  a
               plain  ASCII  text  file  containing  one color description per
               line. Colors may be in decimal or 6-  or  3-digit  hexadecimal,
               and  followed  by a description. (For example, "#000 Black" and
               "255 192 64 Orange".)


OPTIONS - LANGUAGE
       Various parts of Tux Paint have  been  translated  into  numerous  lan‐
       guages.   Tux  Paint  will  try  its  best to honor your locale setting
       (i.e., the LANG environment  variable),  if  possible.   You  can  also
       specifically set the language using options on the command-line or in a
       configuration file.


       --locale LOCALE
               Specify the language to use, based on  locale  name  (which  is
               typically  of  the  form  language[_territory][.codeset][@modi‐
               fier], where language is an ISO 639 language code, territory is
               an  ISO  3166  country  code, and codeset is a character set or
               encoding identifier like ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8.)

              For example, de_DE@euro for German, or pt_BR for Brazilian  Por‐
              tuguese.


       --lang LANGUAGE
               Specify  the  language to use, based on the language's name (as
               recognized by Tux Paint).  Choose one  of  the  language  names
               listed below:

              - english | american-english
              - afrikaans
              - albanian
              - arabic
              - asturian
              - azerbaijani
              - australian-english
              - basque | euskara
              - belarusian | bielaruskaja
              - bokmal
              - brazilian-portuguese | portuges-brazilian | brazilian
              - breton | brezhoneg
              - british | british-english
              - bulgarian
              - canadian-english
              - catalan | catala
              - chinese | simplified-chinese
              - croatian | hrvatski
              - czech | cesky
              - danish | dansk
              - dutch
              - esperanto
              - estonian
              - faroese
              - finnish | suomi
              - french | francais
              - gaelic | irish-gaelic | gaidhlig
              - galician | galego
              - georgian
              - german | deutsch
              - greek
              - gronings | zudelk-veenkelonioals
              - gujarati
              - hebrew
              - hindi
              - hungarian | magyar
              - icelandic | islenska
              - indonesian | bahasa-indonesia
              - italian | italiano
              - japanese
              - kinyarwanda
              - khmer
              - klingon | tlhIngan
              - korean
              - kurdish
              - latvian
              - lithuanian | lietuviu
              - macedonian
              - malay
              - mexican-spanish | espanol-mejicano | mexican
              - ndebele
              - norwegian | nynorsk
              - occitan
              - ojibway
              - polish | polski
              - portuguese | portugues
              - romanian
              - russian | russkiy
              - scottish | scottish-gaelic | ghaidhlig
              - serbian
              - shuswap | secwepemctin
              - slovak
              - slovenian | slovensko
              - songhay
              - southafrican-english
              - spanish | espanol
              - swahili
              - swedish | svenska
              - tagalog
              - tamil
              - telugu
              - thai
              - tibetan
              - traditional-chinese
              - turkish
              - twi
              - ukranian
              - venda
              - vietnamese
              - walloon
              - welsh | cymraeg
              - wolof
              - xhosa
              - zapoteco


       --lang help
               Display a lists of all supported languages.


OPTIONS - MISCELLANEOUS
       --nosysconfig
               With  this  option, Tux Paint will not attempt to read the sys‐
               tem-wide  configuration  file   (typically   /etc/tuxpaint/tux‐
               paint.conf).


       --nolockfile
               By  default,  Tux  Paint  uses a lockfile (stored in the user's
               local  Tux  Paint  directory)  which  prevents  it  from  being
               launched  more than once in 30 seconds. (Sometimes children get
               too eager, or user interfaces only require one click, but users
               think  they need to double-click.)  This option makes Tux Paint
               ignore the current lockfile.


ENVIRONMENT
       While Tux Paint may refer to a number of  environment  variables  indi‐
       rectly (e.g., via SDL(3)), it only directly accesses the following:

       HOME    to  determine  where  picture  files go when using the Save and
               Open commands within Tux Paint, to keep track  of  the  current
               image,  when  quitting and restarting Tux Paint, and to get the
               user's configuration file.


       LANG    to  determine  langauge  to  use,  if  setlocale(3)  refers  to
               'LC_MESSAGES'.


FILES
       /etc/tuxpaint/tuxpaint.conf
               System-wide  configuration  file.  It is read first (unless the
               --nosysconfig option was given on the command-line).

               (Created during installation.)

       $HOME/.tuxpaintrc
               User's configuration file.  It  can  be  used  to  set  default
               options  (rather  than  setting  them on the command-line every
               time), and/or to override any settings in the system-wide  con‐
               figuration file.

               (Not created or edited automatically; must be created manually.
               You can do this by hand, or use 'Tux Paint Config..')

       $HOME/.tuxpaint/saved/
               A directory of previously-saved images (and thumbnails).   Only
               files  in  this directory will be made available using the Open
               command within Tux Paint.  (See tuxpaint-import(1).)

               (Created when Save command is used.)

       $HOME/.tuxpaint/current_id.txt
               A reference to the image which was being edited when Tux  Paint
               was  last  quit.   (This image is automatically loaded the next
               time Tux Paint is re-run.)

               (Created when Tux Paint is Quit.)

       $HOME/.tuxpaint/lockfile.dat
               A lockfile that prevents Tux Paint  from  being  launched  more
               than  once  every 30 seconds.  Disable checking the lockfile by
               using the ´--nolockfile´ command-line argument.

               (There's no reason to delete the lockfile,  as  it  contains  a
               timestamp inside which causes it to expire after 30 seconds.)


COPYRIGHT
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published  by  the
       Free  Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.


OTHER INFO
       The canonical place to find Tux Paint information is at http://www.tux‐
       paint.org/.


AUTHORS
       Bill Kendrick.  

       With  patches,  fixes,  extensions, translation, documentation and more
       from lots of people, including, but not limited to:

       Khalid Al Holan, Daniel Andersson, Joana Portia Antwi-Danso,  Adorilson
       Bezerra   de   Araujo,   Xandru  Armesto,  Ben  Armstrong,  Ravishankar
       Ayyakkannu, Dwayne Bailey, Martin Benjamin, Denis Bodor, Herman  Bruyn‐
       inckx,  Lucie Burianova, Laurentiu Buzdugan, Albert Cahalan, Pere Pujal
       Carabantes, Ouychai Chaita, Wei-Lun Chao, Jacques Chion, Abdoul  Cisse,
       Urska  Colner, Adam 'akanewbie' Corcoran, Helder Correia, Ricardo Cruz,
       Laurent Dhima, Yavor  Doganov,  Dawa  Dolma,  Kevin  Donnelly,  Alberto
       Escudero-Pascual,  Jamil  Farzana,  Doruk  Fisek, Dovix, Korvigellou An
       Drouizig (Philippe),  Fabian  Franz,  Martin  Fuhrer,  Gabriel  Gazzan,
       Torsten  Giebl,  Robert Glowczynski, Chris Goerner, Mikel González, The
       Greek Linux  i18n  Team,  Edmund  GRIMLEY  EVANS,  Frederico  Goncalves
       Guimaraes,  Joe  Hanson,  Sam "Criswell" Hart, Guy Hed, Tedi Heriyanto,
       Pjetur G. Hjaltason, Knut Erik  Hollund,  Khaled  Hosny,  Henry  House,
       Mohomodou  Houssouba,  Song  Huang,  Karl Ove Hufthammer, Roland Illig,
       Juan Irigoien, Dmitriy Ivanov, Mogens Jaeger, Lis Gøthe í  Jákupsstovu,
       Nedjeljko  Jedvaj,  Aleksandar  Jelenak,  Rasmus Erik Voel Jensen, Wang
       Jian, Amed Ç. Jiyan, Petri Jooste, Richard June, Andrej Kacian,  Thomas
       Kalka, Jorma Karvonen, Kazuhiko, Gabor Kelemen, Mark Kim, Thomas Klaus‐
       ner, Koby, Marcin 'Shard' Konicki, Ines Kovacevic, Mantas  Kriauciunas,
       Freek  de  Kruijf, Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz, Serafeim Kyriaki, Matthew
       Lange, Niko Lewman, Arkadiusz  Lipiec,  Ricky  Lontoc,  Dag  H.  Loras,
       Burkhard  Luck,  Vincent  Mahlangu,  Ankit  Malik,  Neskie Manuel, Fred
       Ulisses Maranhao, Yannig MARCHEGAY (Kokoyaya), Jorge  Mariano,  Martin,
       Marco  Milanesi,  Sergio Marques, Kartik Mistry, Mugunth, Steve Murphy,
       Samuel Murray (Groenkloof), Shumani Mercy Nehulaudzi, Mikkel  Kirkgaard
       Nielsen, Alesis Novik, Daniel Nylander, Gareth Owen, Sorin Paliga, Yan‐
       nis Papatzikos, Nikolay Parukhin, Alessandro  Pasotti,  Flavio  Pastor,
       Patrick, Primoz Peterlin, Le Quang Phan, Henrik Pihl, Auk Piseth, Pablo
       Pita, Milan Plzik, Sergei Popov, John Popplewell, Rodrigo Perez Ramirez
       and  Indigenas  Sin  Fronteras,  Adam  'foo-script'  Rakowski,  Leandro
       Regueiro, Simona Riva, Robin Rosenberg, Ilir  Rugova,  Jaroslav  Rynik,
       Bert Saal, Samuel Sarpong, Kevin Patrick Scannell, Pavithran Shakamuri,
       Gia Shervashidze, Clytie  Siddall,  Kliment  Simoncev,  Sokratis  Sofi‐
       anopoulos,  Khoem Sokhem, Geert Stams, Peter Sterba, Raivis Strogonovs,
       Tomasz 'karave' Tarach,  Michal  Terbert,  Ignacia  Tike,  Tilo,  Tarmo
       Toikkanen,  TOYAMA  Shin-ichi,  Niall Tracey, tropikhajma, Matej Urban,
       Rita Verbauskaite, Daniel Jose Viana, Charles Vidal, Darrell  Walisser,
       Frank  Weng,  Damian  Yerrick,  Muhammad  Najmi  Ahmad  Zabidi,  Eugene
       Zelenko, Martin Zhekov, and Huang Zuzhen.


SEE ALSO
       tuxpaint-import(1), tuxpaint-config(1), tp-magic-config(1),  xpaint(1),
       gpaint(1), gimp(1), kolourpaint(1), krita(1), gcompris(1)

       And documentation within /usr/[local/]share/doc/tuxpaint/.



0.9.21                            2 June 2009                      TUXPAINT(1)