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NAME

6       xfdesktop - The Xfce 4 Desktop Environment's desktop manager
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SYNOPSIS

10       xfdesktop
11       xfdesktop [options]
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DESCRIPTION

15       xfdesktop manages the desktop itself in the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment.
16       This includes drawing the desktop backdrop and providing a  right-click
17       applications menu and middle-click window list menu, as well as drawing
18       icons on the desktop.  Only one instance of xfdesktop can be running at
19       a  time,  and  should be started by running xfdesktop without any argu‐
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OPTIONS

24       --reload
25              Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop  to  reload  all
26              its settings, including loading a new random backdrop if using a
27              backdrop list.
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29       --menu Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to  pop  up  the
30              applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
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33              Causes  an  already-running  instance of xfdesktop to pop up the
34              window list menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
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ENVIRONMENT

38       xfdesktop's behavior is affected by  the  following  environment  vari‐
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42              Specifies  the  root  for all user-specific configuration files.
43              If this environment variable is  not  present,  it  defaults  to
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47              Specifies  a colon-separated list of system directories in which
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53       xfdesktop   searches   for   a   menu  description  file  in  $XDG_CON‐
54       FIG_DIRS/menus/xfce-applications.menu.  xfdesktop can also use a  user-
55       customized menu in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/menus/.
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BUGS

59       Please  report any bugs to http://bugzilla.xfce.org/.  Development dis‐
60       cussion should be conducted on  the  xfce4-dev@xfce.org  mailing  list.
61       Usage-related questions should be directed to the xfce@xfce.org mailing
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HOMEPAGE

66       http://xfce.org/
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AUTHOR

70       Jasper  Huijsmans  <huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>,  Benedikt   Meurer
71       <benny@xfce.org>, and Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cornell.edu>.
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73       This manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone
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