docs/wiki/geda-gschem_ug-running_gschem.html

   1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   2  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
   3 <html>
   4 <head>
   5   <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
   6   <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./design.css" />
   7   <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="./print.css" />
   8
   9   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  10 </head>
  11 <body>
  12 <a href=.>start</a>&nbsp;=>&nbsp;<a href=geda-gschem_ug.html>gschem_ug</a></br>
  13 <div class="table sectionedit1"><table class="inline">
  14         <tr class="row0">
  15                 <td class="col0 leftalign"> « <a href="geda-gschem_ug-introduction.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-introduction.html">Introduction</a>  </td><td class="col1 centeralign">  <strong><a href="geda-gschem_ug.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug.html">gEDA gschem User Guide</a></strong>  </td><td class="col2 rightalign">  <a href="geda-gschem_ug-main_window.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-main_window.html">The main window</a> » </td>
  16         </tr>
  17 </table></div>
  18 <!-- EDIT1 TABLE [1-156] -->
  19 <h2 class="sectionedit2" id="running_gschem">Running gschem</h2>
  20 <div class="level2">
  21 <div class="notetip">Are you looking for help with <a href="geda-installation.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-installation.html">installing gEDA</a>?
  22 </div>
  23 <p>
  24 <strong>gschem</strong> can be launched directly from your system applications menu: look for “gEDA Schematic Editor”, which can be found in the “Engineering” or “Electronics” submenus on most Linux systems.  It can also be run by opening a schematic file (ending in <code>.sch</code>) from a file browser window.
  25 </p>
  26
  27 <p>
  28 Alternatively, you can run gschem from the command line using the <code>gschem</code> command.  You can run it without any arguments just to open a new, untitled schematic:
  29 </p>
  30 <pre class="code">gschem</pre>
  31
  32 <p>
  33 or you can specify the names of some schematic or symbol files to open:
  34 </p>
  35 <pre class="code">gschem mydesign.sch symbols/resistor-1.sym</pre>
  36
  37 <p>
  38 If any of the schematic or symbol files you specify don&#039;t already exist, gschem will create a new, empty file with that name.
  39 </p>
  40
  41 <p>
  42 gschem accepts several <a href="geda-gschem_ug-command_line.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-command_line.html">optional arguments</a> that can be specified on the command line to alter its behaviour.  They are also detailed in the gschem manpage (which you can view by running <code>man gschem</code>).
  43 </p>
  44
  45 </div>
  46 <!-- EDIT2 SECTION "Running gschem" [158-] --></body>
  47 </html>