WMANAGER(1) | General Commands Manual | WMANAGER(1) |
NAME¶
wmanager
—
choose a window manager and launch it
SYNOPSIS¶
wmanager |
[OPTIONS ...] |
DESCRIPTION¶
Thewmanager
program displays a choice of the window
managers listed in the ~/.wmanagerrc file. When one is
picked, the related command is written to standard output, intended to be used
by shell scripts. If the program is exited without choosing a window manager,
“-1” is written to standard output.
-fg
COLOR- Set the foreground color.
-bg
COLOR- Set the background color.
-bg2
COLOR- Set the widget background color
-di[splay]
host:n.n- Set the X display.
-dn[d]
,-nod[nd]
- Enable/disable drag & drop, probably does nothing.
-g[eometry]
WxH+X+Y- Set the window size and location.
-i[conic]
- Start as iconified.
-k[bd]
,-nok[bd]
- Enable/disable keyboard support.
-na[me]
CLASSNAME- Set the X window class.
-s[cheme]
SCHEME- Unknown, probably does nothing useful.
-ti[tle]
WINDOWTITLE- Set the window title.
-to[oltips]
,-not[ooltips]
- Enable/disable tooltips, probably does nothing.
EXAMPLE¶
To start usingwmanager
, create a
~/.wmanagerrc file - generally with
wmanagerrc-update(1) - and add something like the following
at the end of your ~/.xsession file:
WM="$(wmanager -geometry
+570+585)"
...
exec $WM
See also wmanager-loop(1) for a nicer way to
start wmanager
.
SEE ALSO¶
wmanager(1), wmanager-loop(1), wmanagerrc-update(1), X(7x)HISTORY¶
Thewmanager
program was written by
Meik Tessmer in 1999. This manual page was originally written in perldoc format by
Tommi Virtanen in 2000, and converted to mdoc format by
Peter Pentchev in 2008.
AUTHORS¶
Thewmanager
program - Meik
Tessmer ⟨fuller@daemogorgon.net⟩.
The manual page - Tommi Virtanen ⟨tv@debian.org⟩ and Peter Pentchev ⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩.
May 22, 2008 | Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 |