# Chapter 1. usage

| kdvi is a DVI viewer based on xdvik version 18f by many authors (see file AUTHORS). My additions to the earlier work are distributed under the GPL (see file COPYING). This is an alpha release of kdvi. See file README.kdvi for release notes.

The dvi viewer may be started using a file name to display a file, e.g: `kdvi somepath/paper.dvi`or without a file name as `kdvi` kdvi will then allow a file to be opened from a dialog or a menu of recently used files. This menu can also be popped up by clicking the File button with the right mouse button.

The usual parameters handled by Qt and KDE applications also work: `kdvi -style windows -display :0 -geometry 400x400+0+0 -caption "DVI"` For integration with TeX the opened DVI file is automatically reloaded when changed.