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XFDESKTOP(1) General Commands Manual XFDESKTOP(1)

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

--reload
Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to reload all its settings, including loading a new random backdrop if using a backdrop list.
--menu
Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to pop up the applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
--windowlist
Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to pop up the window list menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
 

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 http://bugzilla.xfce.org/. 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

http://xfce.org/
 

AUTHOR

Jasper Huijsmans <huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>, Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>, and Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cornell.edu>.
 
This manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone
 
<bjt23@cornell.edu>.
Version 4.5.x 2 December 2007