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Chapter 6. Kontact On the Command Line

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Command Line Arguments
Module-related Arguments
Startup-related Arguments

Kontact has several command line arguments that can be used for certain actions.

First of all, Kontact supports command line arguments that all KF5/Qt™ applications support, see the man pages qt5options and kf5options.

Kontact also supports several command line arguments specific to it.

Command Line Arguments

Module-related Arguments

To get a list of available Kontact modules, you can type:

% kontact --list

Then, to start Kontact with a module active, type:

% kontact --module moduleName

Where moduleName is one of the modules obtained using the previous command.

Startup-related Arguments

To start Kontact in iconified mode[1], you can type:

% kontact --iconify


[1] Iconified mode is also called minimized; it is when the application window is hidden and the application is available only in the taskbar.