ICEWM-SESSION
Section: User\ Commands (1)
Updated: 2021-04-04
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NAME
icewm-session - X.Org session manager provider with IceWM
SYNOPSIS
icewm-session [
OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
icewm-session is an implementation of a X.Org session manager and can be
run from a X11 session setup. It runs
icewm as default window manager
and controls the life cycle of related support applications.
OPTIONS
SPECIFIC OPTIONS
- -c, --config=FILE
-
Let IceWM load preferences from FILE.
- -t, --theme=FILE
-
Let IceWM load the theme FILE.
- -i, --icewm=FILE
-
Use FILE as the IceWM window manager.
- -o, --output=FILE
-
Redirect all output to FILE.
- -a, --alpha
-
Use a 32-bit visual for translucency.
- -b, --nobg
-
Do not start icewmbg.
- -n, --notray
-
Do not start icewmtray.
This is only applicable if IceWM was explicitly configured
to use an external icewmtray process.
- -s, --sound
-
Also start icesound.
GENERAL OPTIONS
- -d, --display=DISPLAY
-
Use DISPLAY to connect to the X server.
If this option is missing then DISPLAY
is read from the environment variable "DISPLAY".
- --sync
-
Use a slower synchronous mode communication with the X11 server.
- -h, --help
-
Give a list of all supported options and exit.
- -V, --version
-
Print the program version and exit.
- -C, --copying
-
Print copying permissions and exit.
USAGE
On startup icewm-session executes the following steps.
From the file
env in the configuration directory
it loads additional environment variables, if that file exists.
Then it will start
icewmbg to manage root background colors and images.
It may also start
icesound, if this was enabled at configuration time.
Then
icewm is started.
If there exists an executable script startup in the configuration
directory, it will be executed. It may contain commands to initialize X11
settings with xset, load keyboard configuration, start a compositing
manager like compton and load system tray applications.
When icewm exits, icewm-session will execute a shutdown script,
if it exists in the configuration directory.
When this finishes, icewm-session will terminate icewm, icewmbg
and icesound. Finally, icewm-session will exit.
If the icewm process crashes then icewm-session will attempt to restart
it. If two such crashes occur in a short period, then icewm-session will
attempt to popup a dialog using either yad, xmessage, kdialog
or zenity. This dialog presents a choice between restarting icewm,
starting a terminal, or abort execution of icewm-session.
ENVIRONMENT
- ICEWM_OPTIONS
-
A space separated list of options which will be added to the command
line invocation of icewm. This can be set in the env file.
SEE ALSO
icewm(1),
icewm-env(5),
icewm-shutdown(5),
icewm-startup(5),
icewmbg(1).
BUGS
icewm-session had no known bugs at the time of release. Please report bugs
for current versions to the source code repository at
<
https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues>.
AUTHOR
Brian Bidulock <mailto:
bidulock@openss7.org>.
See --copying for full copyright notice and copying permissions.
LICENSE
IceWM is licensed under the
GNU Library General Public License.
See the
COPYING file in the distribution or use the
--copying flag
to display copying permissions.