xfdesktop(1) - Linux man page

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>.