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Command Line Reference

Neovide supports a few command line arguments for effecting things which couldn't be set using normal vim variables.

Information

Version

--version or -V

Prints the current version of neovide.

Help

--help or -h

Prints details about neovide. This will be a help page eventually.

Functionality

Multigrid

--multigrid or an environment variable declared named "NEOVIDE_MULTIGRID"

This enables neovim's multigrid functionality which will also enable floating window blurred backgrounds and window animations. For now this is disabled due to some mouse input bugs upstream (neovim/neovim/pull/12667, neovim/neovim/issues/15075) and some floating window transparency issues.

Frameless

--frameless or an environment variable named NEOVIDE_FRAMELESS

Neovide without decorations. NOTE: Window cannot be moved nor resized after this.

Geometry

--geometry=<width>x<height>

Sets the initial neovide window size in characters.

No Fork

--nofork

By default, neovide detaches itself from the terminal. Instead of spawning a child process and leaking it, be "blocking" and have the shell directly as parent process.

No Tabs

--notabs

By default, Neovide opens files given directly to Neovide (not NeoVim through --!) in multiple tabs to avoid confusing new users. The option disables that and makes multiple given files to normal buffers.

Note: Even if files are opened in tabs, they're buffers anyways. It's just about them being visible or not.

WSL

--wsl

Runs neovim from inside wsl rather than as a normal executable.

Neovim Binary

--neovim-bin

Sets where to find neovim's executable. If unset, neovide will try to find nvim on the PATH environment variable instead. If you're running a Unix-alike, be sure that binary has the executable permission bit set.

Log File

--log

Enables the log file for debugging purposes. This will write a file next to the executable containing trace events which may help debug an issue.

Wayland / X11

--wayland-app-id <wayland_app_id> or an environment variable called NEOVIDE_APP_ID
--x11-wm-class <x11_wm_class> or an environment variable called NEOVIDE_WM_CLASS

On Linux/Unix, this alters the identification of the window to either X11 or the more modern Wayland, depending on what you are running on.

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