.TH XFDESKTOP 1 "Version 4.5.x" "2 December 2007" .SH NAME xfdesktop \- The Xfce 4 Desktop Environment's desktop manager .SH SYNOPSIS .B xfdesktop .br .B xfdesktop .I [options] .br .SH DESCRIPTION \fBxfdesktop\fP 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 \fBxfdesktop\fP without any arguments. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \--reload Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to reload all its settings, including loading a new random backdrop if using a backdrop list. .TP .B \--menu Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to pop up the applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor. .TP .B \--windowlist Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to pop up the window list menu at the current position of the mouse cursor. .SH ENVIRONMENT \fBxfdesktop\fP's behavior is affected by the following environment variables. .PP .TP .B XDG_CONFIG_HOME Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files. If this environment variable is not present, it defaults to .I ~/.config .TP .B 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 .I /etc/xdg .SH FILES \fBxfdesktop\fP searches for a menu description file in .IR $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/menus/xfce-applications.menu . \fBxfdesktop\fP can also use a user-customized menu in .IR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/menus/ . .SH BUGS Please report any bugs to .IR http://bugzilla.xfce.org/ . Development discussion should be conducted on the .IR xfce4-dev@xfce.org mailing list. Usage-related questions should be directed to the .IR xfce@xfce.org mailing list. .SH HOMEPAGE .I http://xfce.org/ .SH AUTHOR Jasper Huijsmans , Benedikt Meurer , and Brian Tarricone . This manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone .br .