### 3.1 Starting Geomview

The usual way to start Geomview is to type `geomview <Enter>` in a shell window (<Enter> means hit the "Enter" key). It may take Geomview a few seconds to start up; one or more windows will appear and you can begin interacting with Geomview immediately.

It is also possible to specify actions for Geomview to perform at startup time by giving arguments in the shell command line. See Command Line Options.