xfdesktop - The Xfce 4 Desktop Environment's desktop manager
xfdesktop
xfdesktop [options]
xfdesktop manages the desktop itself in the Xfce 4 Desktop
Environment. This includes drawing the desktop backdrop and providing a
right-click applications menu and middle-click window list menu, as well as
drawing icons on the desktop. Only one instance of xfdesktop can be running
at a time, and should be started by running xfdesktop without any
arguments.
- -V, --version
- Display version information
- -R, --reload
- Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to reload all its
settings and redraws the desktop background.
- -N, --next
- Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to advance to the
next wallpaper on the current workspace.
- -M, --menu
- Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to pop up the
applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
- -W, --windowlist
- Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to pop up the
window list menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
- -A, --arrange
- Automatically arrange all the icons on the desktop
- -D,
--disable-wm-check
- Do not wait for a window manager on startup
- -e, --enable-debug
- Enable debug messages
- -d,
--disable-debug
- Disable debug messages
- -Q, --quit
- Cause xfdesktop to quit
- --display=[DISPLAY]
- X display to use
xfdesktop's behavior is affected by the following
environment variables.
- XDG_CONFIG_HOME
- Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files. If this
environment variable is not present, it defaults to ~/.config
- XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
- Specifies a colon-separated list of system directories in which to search
for configuration data. If this environment variable is not present, it
defaults to /etc/xdg
xfdesktop searches for a menu description file in
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/menus/xfce-applications.menu. xfdesktop can
also use a user-customized menu in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/menus/.
Please report any bugs to
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop.
Development discussion should be conducted on the xfce4-dev@xfce.org
mailing list.
Usage-related questions should be directed to the xfce@xfce.org mailing
list.
Jasper Huijsmans <huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>, Benedikt
Meurer <benny@xfce.org>, Brian Tarricone <brian@tarricone.org>,
and Eric Koegel <eric@xfce.org>.
This manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone
<brian@tarricone.org>.