shotwell(1) General Commands Manual shotwell(1)

shotwell - Digital photo manager

shotwell [OPTION]... [FILE]

Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others.

-h, --help Show help options

-d, --datadir=FOLDER

Path to Shotwell's private data. Using -d stand-alone without --profile --create is considered deprecated and should not be used anymore.

--no-runtime-monitoring

Do not monitor library folder at runtime for changes

-f, --fullscreen

Open the viewer mode in fullscreen. Has no effect in library mode.

--no-startup-progress

Don't display startup progress meter

-V, --version

Show the application's version

--display=DISPLAY

X display to use

-p, --show-metadata

Dump all Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata of FILE

-i, --profile=PROFILE

Start shotwell with a different profile. A profile consists of a set of settings and a new private data dir. The data dir can be overriden by secifying --datadir as well.

-l, --list-profiles

Show the available profiles

-b, --profile-browser

Show the available profiles in a dialog, with managing capabilities and the ability to start Shotwell with a specific profile by double-clicking.

shotwell

Opens Shotwell with the user's library.

shotwell FILE

Opens an image file for direct editing. File is not imported into library and unsaved changes are lost on close.

shotwell --profile="Development environment"

Opens shotwell using the profile named "Development environment".

Shotwell homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell

Report bugs: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/issues

This manual page was written by Jim Nelson jim@yorba.org and Allison Barlow allison@yorba.org.