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Opera is a graphical Web browser available on several platforms. The desktop
version described in this manual page runs on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Versions
for Windows and MacOS X are also available.
These support both double and single dash as prefix. Several other options are
also supported, notably including many generic X Toolkit options; see
--help output for details.
- --personaldir path
- --pd path
- Use path as personal configuration directory (ignore default
location).
- --remote command
- Send command to an existing Opera window. See "REMOTE
COMMANDS" section below.
- --nomail
- Start Opera without internal e-mail client (also disables chat and
newsfeeds).
- --nosession
- Do not open a saved window session or homepage.
- --noshape
- Suppress X shape-extension for widgets, to make their full underlying
rectangle visible (useful for debug).
- --nowin
- Do not open any document windows.
- --version
- Display version information and exit.
- -h, --help
- Print option summary and exit.
Since commands include parentheses, which have special meaning to the shell, it
is important to enclose remote commands in quotes, like
--remote
'openURL()' so as to prevent the shell from interpreting the parentheses.
In the following,
destination is one of
new-window for a new
window,
new-page for a new page (or tab) or
background-page for
a new background page (opened in an inactive new tab).
- openURL()
- Open "Go to" dialog box prompting for input.
- openURL(URL)
- Open URL in active window.
- openURL(URL,destination)
- open URL in destination window, tab or background.
- openFile(destination)
- Open file selector in destination window or page (background not
supported).
- openM2(new-window)
- Open Opera mail client list view in a new window.
- openComposer(new-window)
- Open Opera mail composer in a new window.
- addBookmark(URL)
- Add URL to bookmark list.
- raise()
- Raises the Opera window.
- lower()
- Lowers the Opera window.
- /usr/local/lib/linux-opera
- Installation directory for Opera binaries, with a separate plugins
sub-directory for plugins.
- /usr/local/share/linux-opera
- Opera shared resource directory. Contains assorted data files.
- /etc/operaprefs_default.ini
- Default settings for Opera configurations; may be overridden by the
operaprefs.ini in a user's personal configuration directory.
- /etc/operaprefs_fixed.ini
- System settings for Opera configurations; cannot be overridden by
users.
- ~/.linux-opera
- The default personal configuration directory.
Private data for each user is stored in a personal configuration directory. By
default this is
~/.linux-opera but you can override this by setting
OPERA_PERSONALDIR (for example in your login shell's standard
configuration file) to a location of your choosing; or by passing a chosen
directory with the
--personaldir command-line option. For the most part
it is best to access the files in this directory via the preference and
appearance dialogs - accessed either from the
Tools menu of the Opera
user interface or via a keyboard shortcut: type
Alt+
P for the
main preferences dialog,
Shift+
F12 for the appearance dialog or
simply
F12 for a menu of the more commonly set basic preferences from
each. (You can control Opera entirely from the keyboard, including any of
these dialogs; to dismiss a dialog, use the
Esc key.)
Most files in the directory have names which express their functions. Many of
them have backups saved in
*.bak files. The file
operaprefs.ini
in this directory records most user preferences. Entries in it can override
the locations of some of the other files; this description relates each to its
default location. A fuller account of the
operaprefs.ini file may be
found at
http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/. Bookmarks
are recorded in
bookmarks.adr, and global browsing history is recorded
in
global.dat; browsing histories for individual tabs are a part of the
session state saved as files in
sessions. In this sub-directory, the
state of the current session is saved in
autosave.win; other sessions
may be saved (see the Sessions sub-menu of the main File menu) to other files
in this directory. It is prudent to save such a named session before starting
up Opera with a radically new version (especially if it is a beta release).
- OPERA_PERSONALDIR
- Override default personal configuration directory
- OPERA_STRICT_FILE_PERMISSIONS
- Use owner-only permissions for all files created (as if by umask
077) if set to YES, TRUE (case insensitively matched) or 1. Otherwise
honour umask setting in the normal way.
- OPERA_SYSTEM_UNAME
- Override the operating system name. If set, Opera will use this value as
part of the User Agent string instead of trying to detect the operating
system.
This program was written by Opera Software ASA
http://www.opera.com/.
Please refer to
/usr/local/share/doc/linux-opera/LICENSE for more
information.
If you find a bug in Opera please report it to
https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/
Output from
linux-opera --help for a fuller list of supported options.
http://www.opera.com/docs/switches/ for an on-line account of the
supported options.
http://help.opera.com/ for more general on-line help (also available via
the Help menu on Opera's main toolbar).