xfdesktop (1) Linux Manual Page

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://bugzilla.xfce.org/.
Development discussion should be conducted on the xfce4-dev [at] xfce.org mailing list.
Usage-related questions should be directed to the xfce [at] xfce.org mailing list.

Homepage

https://xfce.org/

Author

Jasper Huijsmans <huysmans [at] users.sourceforge.net>, Benedikt Meurer <benny [at] xfce.org>, Brian Tarricone <bjt23 [at] cornell.edu>, and Eric Koegel <eric [at] xfce.org>.

This manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone <bjt23 [at] cornell.edu>.