WMANAGER-LOOP(1) BSD General Commands Manual WMANAGER-LOOP(1)NAMEwmanager-loop — loop running window managers chosen with wmanager
SYNOPSISwmanager-loop [OPTIONS ...]
DESCRIPTION
The wmanager-loop program starts the first window manager listed in
~/.wmanagerrc (or an X terminal emulator if none), and when it exits,
runs wmanager(1) to prompt the user for the next window manager. It
loops doing this until the user chooses “Exit this session” in
wmanager(1). Any options given to wmanager-loop will be passed on to
wmanager(1).
As mentioned above, if no window manager is found in the ~/.wmanagerrc
file, the wmanager-loop program attempts to start an X terminal emulator.
If the WMTERM environment variable is set, the wmanager-loop program uses
it as the path to the emulator. Otherwise it searches the user's path
for a program named “x-terminal-emulator”, “urxvt”, “rxvt”, or “xterm” in
this order, and starts the first one found using its full path. If none
of the common terminal emulators on the above list is found, the
wmanager-loop program just runs “xterm” in the hope that something will
come up on the user's display.
ENVIRONMENT
The wmanager-loop program uses the following environment variables:
WMTERM The name of the X terminal emulator to execute if no window man‐
ager could be found in the ~/.wmanagerrc file. If not specified,
the wmanager-loop program searches the user's path as described
above.
EXAMPLE
To start using wmanager-loop, create a ~/.wmanagerrc file - generally
with wmanagerrc-update(1) - and add something like the following at the
end of your ~/.xsession file:
exec wmanager-loop-geometry +570+585
SEE ALSOwmanager(1), wmanagerrc-update(1)HISTORY
The wmanager-loop program was written by Tommi Virtanen in 2000 and later
modified by Peter Pentchev. This manual page was originally written in
perldoc format by Tommi Virtanen in 2000, and converted to mdoc format
and updated by Peter Pentchev in 2008.
AUTHORS
Tommi Virtanen ⟨tv@debian.org⟩
Peter Pentchev ⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩
BSD May 22, 2008 BSD
