qutebrowser A keyboard-driven browser.

qutebrowser's primary maintainer, The-Compiler, is currently working part-time on qutebrowser, funded by donations.

To sustain this for a long time, your help is needed! See the GitHub Sponsors page or alternative donation methods for more information. Depending on your sign-up date and how long you keep a certain level, you can get qutebrowser t-shirts, stickers and more!

qutebrowser(1)

NAME

qutebrowser - a keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.

SYNOPSIS

qutebrowser [-OPTION […]] [:COMMAND […]] [URL […]]

DESCRIPTION

qutebrowser is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. It’s based on Python and Qt and is free software, licensed under the GPL.

It was inspired by other browsers/addons like dwb and Vimperator/Pentadactyl.

Note the commands and settings of qutebrowser are not described in this manpage, but in the help integrated in qutebrowser - use the ":help" command to show it.

OPTIONS

positional arguments

:command

Commands to execute on startup.

URL

URLs to open on startup (empty as a window separator).

options

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-B BASEDIR, --basedir BASEDIR

Base directory for all storage.

-C CONFIG, --config-py CONFIG

Path to config.py.

-V, --version

Show version and quit.

-s OPTION VALUE, --set OPTION VALUE

Set a temporary setting for this session.

-r SESSION, --restore SESSION

Restore a named session.

-R, --override-restore

Don’t restore a session even if one would be restored.

--target {auto,tab,tab-bg,tab-silent,tab-bg-silent,window,private-window}

How URLs should be opened if there is already a qutebrowser instance running.

--backend {webkit,webengine}

Which backend to use.

--qt-wrapper {PyQt6,PyQt5}

Which Qt wrapper to use. This can also be set via the QUTE_QT_WRAPPER environment variable. If both are set, the command line argument takes precedence.

--desktop-file-name DESKTOP_FILE_NAME

Set the base name of the desktop entry for this application. Used to set the app_id under Wayland. See https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qguiapplication.html#desktopFileName-prop

--untrusted-args

Mark all following arguments as untrusted, which enforces that they are URLs/search terms (and not flags or commands)

debug arguments

-l {critical,error,warning,info,debug,vdebug}, --loglevel {critical,error,warning,info,debug,vdebug}

Override the configured console loglevel

--logfilter LOGFILTER

Comma-separated list of things to be logged to the debug log on stdout.

--loglines LOGLINES

How many lines of the debug log to keep in RAM (-1: unlimited).

-d, --debug

Turn on debugging options.

--json-logging

Output log lines in JSON format (one object per line).

--nocolor

Turn off colored logging.

--force-color

Force colored logging

--nowindow

Don’t show the main window.

-T, --temp-basedir

Use a temporary basedir.

--no-err-windows

Don’t show any error windows (used for tests/smoke.py).

--qt-arg NAME VALUE

Pass an argument with a value to Qt. For example, you can do --qt-arg geometry 650x555+200+300 to set the window geometry.

--qt-flag QT_FLAG

Pass an argument to Qt as flag.

-D DEBUG_FLAGS, --debug-flag DEBUG_FLAGS

Pass name of debugging feature to be turned on.

FILES

  • ~/.config/qutebrowser/config.py: Configuration file.

  • ~/.config/qutebrowser/autoconfig.yml: Configuration done via the GUI.

  • ~/.config/qutebrowser/quickmarks: Saved quickmarks.

  • ~/.local/share/qutebrowser/: Various state information.

  • ~/.cache/qutebrowser/: Temporary data.

Note qutebrowser conforms to the XDG basedir specification - if XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_CACHE_HOME are set in the environment, the directories configured there are used instead of the above defaults.

BUGS

Bugs are tracked in the Github issue tracker at https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues.

If you found a bug, use the built-in :report command to create a bug report with all information needed.

If you prefer, you can also write to the mailinglist at qutebrowser@lists.qutebrowser.org instead.

For security bugs, please contact security@qutebrowser.org (or if GPG encryption is desired, contact me@the-compiler.org with GPG ID 0x916EB0C8FD55A072).

Alternatively, report a vulnerability via GitHub’s private reporting feature.

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

RESOURCES

AUTHOR

qutebrowser was written by Freya Bruhin. All contributors can be found in the README file distributed with qutebrowser.