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.\"     Title: vmpk
.\"    Author: Mehdi Dogguy <dogguy@pps.jussieu.fr>
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.\"      Date: June 7, 2009
.\"    Manual: User Commands
.\"    Source: vmpk 0.3.3
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.TH "VMPK" "1" "June 7, 2009" "vmpk 0\&.3\&.3" "User Commands"
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.SH "NAME"
vmpk \- Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBvmpk\fR\ 'u
\fBvmpk\fR [Standard\ options\&.\&.\&.]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This manual page documents briefly the
\fBvmpk\fR
program\&.
.PP
This program has standard Qt programs options\&.
.PP
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver\&. It doesn\*(Aqt 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\*(Aqs 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\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-style=\fRstyle
.RS 4
sets the application GUI style\&. Possible values are motif, windows, and platinum\&. If you compiled Qt with additional styles or have additional styles as plugins these will be available to the
\fB\-style\fR
command line option
.RE
.PP
\fB\-stylesheet=\fRstylesheet
.RS 4
sets the application styleSheet\&. The value must be a path to a file that contains the Style Sheet\&. Note: Relative URLs in the Style Sheet file are relative to the Style Sheet file\*(Aqs path\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-session=\fRsession
.RS 4
restores the application from an earlier session\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-widgetcount\fR
.RS 4
prints debug message at the end about number of widgets left undestroyed and maximum number of widgets existed at the same time
.RE
.PP
\fB\-reverse\fR
.RS 4
sets the application\*(Aqs layout direction to
\fBQt::RightToLeft\fR
.RE
.PP
\fB\-graphicssystem\fR
.RS 4
sets the backend to be used for on\-screen widgets and QPixmaps\&. Available options are raster and opengl\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-display\fR display
.RS 4
sets the X display (default is $DISPLAY)\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-geometry\fR geometry
.RS 4
sets the client geometry of the first window that is shown\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-fn|\-font\fR font
.RS 4
defines the application font\&. The font should be specified using an X logical font description\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-bg|\-background\fR color
.RS 4
sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated)\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-fg|\-foreground\fR color
.RS 4
sets the default foreground color\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-btn|\-button\fR color
.RS 4
sets the default button color\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-name\fR name
.RS 4
sets the application name\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-title\fR title
.RS 4
sets the application title\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-visual TrueColor\fR
.RS 4
forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8\-bit display\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-ncols\fR count
.RS 4
limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8\-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification\&. If count is 216 then a 6x6x6 color cube is used (i\&.e\&. 6 levels of red, 6 of green, and 6 of blue); for other values, a cube approximately proportional to a 2x3x1 cube is used\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-cmap\fR
.RS 4
causes the application to install a private color map on an 8\-bit display\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-im\fR
.RS 4
sets the input method server (equivalent to setting the XMODIFIERS environment variable)
.RE
.PP
\fB\-inputstyle\fR
.RS 4
defines how the input is inserted into the given widget, e\&.g\&., onTheSpot makes the input appear directly in the widget, while overTheSpot makes the input appear in a box floating over the widget and is not inserted until the editing is done\&.
.RE
.SH "LICENSE"
.PP
This manual page was written by
Mehdi Dogguy
<dogguy@pps\&.jussieu\&.fr>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others)\&. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
GNU
General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; considering as source code all the file that enable the production of this manpage\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
\fBMehdi Dogguy\fR <\&dogguy@pps\&.jussieu\&.fr\&>
.RS 4
.RE
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.br
Copyright \(co 2009 Mehdi Dogguy
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