Command line

Note

This is a copy of the Otter Browser man page, that you can acces by typing this command in a terminal:

man otter-browser

Synopsis

otter-browser [OPTIONS] [PATH|URL|TERM...]

Options

--profile=PATH

Specifies the directory that profile (user data) is kept in. Defaults to ~/.config/otter.

--cache=PATH

Specifies the directory that cache data is kept in. Defaults to ~/.cache/otter.

--session=IDENTIFIER

Tries to load session specified by IDENTIFIER .

--privatesession

Starts private session.

--sessionchooser

Forces session chooser dialog.

--portable

Sets profile and cache paths to directories inside the same directory as that of application binary.

--readonly

Tells application to avoid writing data to disk.

--report

Prints out diagnostic report and exits application.

-h, --help

Shows the list of supported command line options.

-v, --version

Shows version information.

Note

As a Qt application, Otter also obeys Qt command-line flags, see the Qt documentation for complete list.

Files

~/.config/otter
Default directory for configuration data.
~/.cache/otter
Default directory for cache data.