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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

HELP OPTIONS:

Show help options
Show all help options
Show GTK+ Options
Show session management options

APPLICATION OPTIONS:

Display version information
Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to reload all its settings and redraws the desktop background.
Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to advance to the next wallpaper on the current workspace.
Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to pop up the applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to pop up the window list menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
Automatically arrange all the icons on the desktop
Do not wait for a window manager on startup
Enable debug messages
Disable debug messages
Cause xfdesktop to quit
X display to use

ENVIRONMENT

xfdesktop's behavior is affected by the following environment variables.

Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files. If this environment variable is not present, it defaults to ~/.config
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>.

July 2019