<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./design.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="./print.css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <div class="table sectionedit620"><table class="inline"> <tr class="row0"> <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> </tr> </table></div> <!-- EDIT620 TABLE [1-156] --> <h2 class="sectionedit621"><a name="running_gschem" id="running_gschem">Running gschem</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> <p><div class="notetip">Are you looking for help with <a href="geda-installation.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-installation.html">installing gEDA</a>? </div></p> </p> <p> <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. </p> <p> 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: </p> <pre class="code">gschem</pre> <p> or you can specify the names of some schematic or symbol files to open: </p> <pre class="code">gschem mydesign.sch symbols/resistor-1.sym</pre> <p> If any of the schematic or symbol files you specify don't already exist, gschem will create a new, empty file with that name. </p> <p> 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>). </p> </div> <!-- EDIT621 SECTION "Running gschem" [158-] --></body> </html>