Tdesktop: Document command line parameters

[dragetd]

The desktop client supports a few command line options. It would be nice if those could be documented. So far I have extracted from the source:

-testmode
-debug
-many
-key
-autostart
-fixpreveious
-cleanup
-crash
-noupdate
-tosettings
-startintray
-sendpath
-workdir

I would gladly help on writing some of that documentation and create a PR when I am done. But some of these parameters I need to follow through the source to figure out what they do. So far those I have _not_ taken a look at these:

-testmode
-key
-fixpreveious
-cleanup
-crash
-sendpath

Eventually someone with more code inside can name a few keywords what they do.

Plus, where would you prefer to have that info? I would add it to the README.md or eventually create a command-line-switches.md. Also added to the Wiki?

[john-preston]

@dragetd Some of them are for internal service use and I doubt all should be documented. For example "-cleanup" which performs some cleanup before complete uninstall of tdesktop windows version.

[auchri]

@dragetd
It would be useful to document some of the parameters! I think the documentation should be added to the wiki and maybe link from the readme to the wiki.

[dragetd]

I'll write some things down and add it to the wiki next week. :)

[karlsebal]

I think Telegram run with "--help" option should do as expected: show help.

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[stek29]

@dragetd so what about PR?

[dragetd]

A lot of life (tm) happened. :-(
But if anyone else wants to take a shot… it is not hard to go through the source and check what parameter is doing what.

[stek29]

@auchri The issue isn't fixed yet :c

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[stek29]

lmao, second time

[Fabian42]

I just tried "-startintray" and it still opens the window. Is the initial text of this tracker outdated or is this a different Telegram version than the one that can be downloaded from telegram.org?
(I'm on Debian.)

[stek29]

@Fabian42 startintray is broken on linux, see #422 and its duplicates

[Fabian42]

Thanks for telling me. But the tray icon is broken for me anyway. It used to crash Cinnamon on every click except the first one after boot, now it only appears between an update and the next reboot.

[Fabian42]

I just tried -sendpath, because someone claimed that I could programmatically send files using that. Turns out I can't, but here's at least my observations from randomly trying things:

• The argument alone does nothing, the command just launches Telegram regularly.
• The first argument after it is interpreted as a path, Telegram is opened with "Choose recipient…" text over the chat area and clicking a chat in the list tries to send that file to that chat.
• If the file doesn't exist, "Could not send empty file: " is shown after clicking a chat (and after it gets opened).
• Further arguments afterwards are ignored (haven't tested the ones in the list in the original post).
• There seems to be no way to specify a chat to send the file to from the command line.

[SmartManoj]

@Fabian42 Use pyautogui

[SmartManoj]

lmao, second time

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[RadRussianRus]

I think it's documented on wiki now.
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/wiki/Command-Line-Switches