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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 argu‐
       ments.

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	 vari‐
       ables.

       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_CON‐
       FIG_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>, Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cornell.edu>, and Eric	Koegel
       <eric@xfce.org>.

       This  manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cor‐
       nell.edu>.

				  August 2014			  XFDESKTOP(1)

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