opera - a standards-compliant graphical Web browser
SYNOPSIS
opera
[options]
[URL...]
DESCRIPTION
Opera is a graphical Web browser available on several platforms. The
desktop version described in this manual page runs on GNU/Linux,
FreeBSD, and Solaris. Versions for Macintosh and Windows are also
available.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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.
REMOTE COMMANDS
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.
FILES AND DIRECTORIES
/usr/bin/opera
Standard installation location for Opera driver script; configures
environment and invokes the binary.
/usr/lib/opera/
Installation directory for Opera binaries, in version-specific
sub-directories, with a separate
plugins/
sub-directory for plugins.
/usr/share/opera/
Opera shared resource directory. Contains assorted data files.
/etc/opera6rc
Default settings for Opera configurations; may be overridden by the
opera6.ini
in a user's personal configuration directory.
/etc/opera6rc.fixed
System settings for Opera configurations; cannot be overridden by users.
~/.opera/
The default personal configuration directory.
CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY
Private data for each user is stored in a personal configuration directory.
By default this is
~/.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
opera6.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
opera6.ini
file may be found at
http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/.
Bookmarks are recorded in
opera6.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).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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.
AUTHOR
This program was written by Opera Software ASA
http://www.opera.com/.
Please refer to
/usr/share/opera/locale/en/license.txt
for more information.
