Celestia/Command Line

Introduction Celestia can be started either by clicking on its icon or by typing a command into a terminal window. Under Windows, the terminal window is often called a DOS window or CMD window. A typical command to run Celestia might be cd Celestia ./Celestia The command line can optionally include the following qualifiers. These qualifiers are different depending on which command interface Celestia was built for. Each command qualifier (aka switch) should be prefixed by two hyphens Windows command qualifiers --dir <path> Change root celestia directory to <path> --fullscreen Start Celestia in fullscreen mode --once Send the command line to a running instance of Celestia. If no running instance exists, a new one is started. --url <url>|<filename> Start in the given <url> or if the parameter is the name of a script file, execute <filename>. --verbose >    <filename> Write debug messages to <filename> (Although --verbose can only write to a file, the redirection > is required.) gtk command qualifiers --conf Use alternate configuration file --dir Use alternate installation directory --extrasdir Use additional "extras" directory --fullscreen Start full-screen --nosplash Disable splash screen - v [0|1] Enable debug mode. KDE command qualifiers --conf Use alternate configuration file --dir Use alternate installation directory --extrasdir Use additional "extras" directory --fullscreen Start full-screen --nosplash Disable splash screen +[url] Start and goto URL <url> Start in the given url/execute script file. - - help Command-line help