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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   HELP OPTIONS:
25       -h, --help
26              Show help options
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28       --help-all
29              Show all help options
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31       --help-gtk
32              Show GTK+ Options
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34       --help-sm-client
35              Show session management options
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38   APPLICATION OPTIONS:
39       -V, --version
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42       -R, --reload
43              Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop  to  reload  all
44              its settings and redraws the desktop background.
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47              Causes  an  already-running  instance of xfdesktop to advance to
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51              Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to  pop  up  the
52              applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
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55              Causes  an  already-running  instance of xfdesktop to pop up the
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59              Automatically arrange all the icons on the desktop
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61       -D, --disable-wm-check
62              Do not wait for a window manager on startup
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64       -e, --enable-debug
65              Enable debug messages
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71              Cause xfdesktop to quit
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ENVIRONMENT

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

99       Please report any bugs to https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop.
100       Development  discussion  should  be conducted on the xfce4-dev@xfce.org
101       mailing list.
102       Usage-related questions should be directed to the xfce@xfce.org mailing
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HOMEPAGE

107       https://xfce.org/
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AUTHOR

111       Jasper   Huijsmans  <huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>,  Benedikt  Meurer
112       <benny@xfce.org>, Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cornell.edu>, and Eric  Koegel
113       <eric@xfce.org>.
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115       This  manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cor‐
116       nell.edu>.
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