Though may most often be started from the KDE program menu, or a desktop icon, it can also be opened at the command line prompt of a terminal window. There are a few useful options that are available when doing this.
By specifying the path and name of a particular file the user can have open (or create) that file immediately upon startup. This option might look something like the following:
The above-mentioned method could even be used to open files on the internet (if the user has an active connection at the time.) An example of this might look like the following:
The following command line help options are available
This lists the most basic options available at the command line.
This lists the options available for changing the way interacts with .
This lists the options available for changing the way interacts with KDE.
This lists all of the command line options.
Lists 's authors in the terminal window
Lists version information for , KDE, and . Also available through kwrite -V