Command-line options and configuration

Command-line options

Call freeplane like this:

freeplane [options] [file1 [file2 ...]]

• -h|--help: list available options
• -X<menukey>: execute menu item with key <menukey>. Use devtools add-on to find the menu keys
• -S: stop after executing menu items
• -N: set the 'nonInteractive' system property to 'true'
• -U<userdir>: set the freeplane user config directory (only since version 1.3.3!!!)

Batch execution of menu items (e.g. scripts) is described in a special wiki article.

Debug start script under Linux

Start Freeplane in debug mode (if you have problems starting):

DEBUG=true freeplane.sh

Environment variables

Select Java installation used to run Freeplane

The following variables are tried in order:

• FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME
• JAVA_HOME (not on Windows OS)

For windows, set one of these variables and run freeplane.exe or freeplaneConsole.exe:

 FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_131

or, under Linux/UNIX:

 FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/ ./freeplane.sh

Freeplane requires Java between Java 8 and Java 15 because Java 16 is not compatible with current Groovy Engine.

Use of Java 16 can be permitted only on Linux by setting variable FREEPLANE_USE_UNSUPPORTED_JAVA_VERSION to 1.

JAVA_OPTS

Set Java Properties, e.g. set the freeplane user config directory in Freeplane < 1.3.3:

JAVA_OPTS=-Dorg.freeplane.userfpdir=$HOME/blabla freeplane.sh