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NAME

xfdesktop - The Xfce 4 Desktop Environment's desktop manager

SYNOPSIS

xfdesktop
xfdesktop [options]

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

HELP OPTIONS:
-h, --help
Show help options

--help-all
Show all help options

--help-gtk
Show GTK+ Options

--help-sm-client
Show session management options


APPLICATION OPTIONS:
-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

ENVIRONMENT

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

FILES

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/.

BUGS

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.

HOMEPAGE

https://xfce.org/

AUTHOR

Jasper Huijsmans <huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>, Benedikt Meurer
<benny@xfce.org>, Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cornell.edu>, and Eric
Koegel <eric@xfce.org>.

This manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone
<bjt23@cornell.edu>.

July 2019 XFDESKTOP(1)