XFDESKTOP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: July 2019
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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>.