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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Xfce 4 Desktop Manager</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../xfce.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.66.1"><link rel="start" href="#xfdesktop" title="Xfce 4 Desktop Manager"><link rel="next" href="#xfdesktop-intro" title="Introduction"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="xfdesktop"></a>Xfce 4 Desktop Manager</h1></div><div><div class="authorgroup"><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jasper</span> <span class="surname">Huijsmans</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><div class="address"><p><tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:huysmans@users.sourceforge.net">huysmans@users.sourceforge.net</a>></tt></p></div></div></div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">François</span> <span class="surname">Le Clainche</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><div class="address"><p><tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:fleclainche@wanadoo.fr">fleclainche@wanadoo.fr</a>></tt></p></div></div></div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Brian</span> <span class="surname">Tarricone</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><div class="address"><p><tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:kelnos@xfce.org">kelnos@xfce.org</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" class="releaseinfo">This manual describes <b xmlns="" class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> version 4.1.
<br></br></span></div><div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2003 Jasper Huijsmans</p></div><div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2003 François Le Clainche</p></div><div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2004 Brian Tarricone</p></div></div><hr></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#xfdesktop-intro">Introduction</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#xfdesktop-background">Backdrop</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#xfdesktop-menu"><b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> root menu</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#xfdesktop-copyright">About xfdesktop</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="xfdesktop-intro"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div></div><p>The <b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> application manages the desktop backdrop. It sets a
backdrop image and/or color and it can optionall pop up an applications
menu when you click on it with the right mouse button. It also displays a
window list of all running applications after a middle button clic.
Along with the application, a settings dialog is installed for use with the
<span class="emphasis"><em>Xfce 4 Settings Manager</em></span>. This dialog allows you to
change the backdrop image and color. You can also request xfdesktop to
not set the backdrop, in order to allow another program to perform that
task.
</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="xfdesktop-background"></a>Backdrop</h2></div></div></div><p>You can start the backdrop properties dialog by clicking on the
"Backdrop" button in the
<a href="xfce-mcs-manager.html#manager-dialog" target="_top">settings manager dialog</a>.
</p><div class="figure"><a name="xfdesktop-background-fig"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 1. Backdrop Settings</b></p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="images/xfdesktop-background.png" alt="Shows backdrop settings dialog.
"></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Color</span></dt><dd><p>Click the "Backdrop color" button, and a new dialog will
appear :</p><div class="figure"><a name="select_bg_color-fig"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 2. Select backdrop color</b></p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="images/select_bg_color.png" alt="Shows the Select backdrop color dialog"></div></div></div><p>This dialog allows you to choose a color for the desktop
backdrop. This color will fill the entire root window, and will
remain visible through a transparent backdrop image. There are
several ways to do that:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li>you can use the colored ring with a triangle inside:
select the color you want from the outer ring, then select the
darkness or lightness of that color using the inner triangle.
Corresponding values of brightness, deepness, and amount of red,
green and blue light in the color appear through the entries on
the right side of the window.
</li><li>you can click the eyedropper, then click anywhere on your
screen to select the color.
</li><li>you can enter an HTML-style hexadecimal color value, or
simply a color name, in the "Color Name" entry
</li></ul></div><p>Select the "Use color only" option if you want <b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> to ignore
the backdrop image and only use the choosen color.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Image</span></dt><dd><p>The "File" entry shows the path to the currently selected
backdrop image. If you want to change it, just drop and image
on the dialog from a file manager, or edit the path, or click the
"Browse" button, and a classic file-browsing dialog will appear.
</p><p>Three Style options (Tiled, Scaled, and Centered) can be used to
specify the fitting of the backdrop image on the screen, depending
on its size. You can also select the "Automatic" item if you want to
let <b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> take care of this setting.
</p><p>You can create a list of backdrop images that will be randomly
used at startup. Click the "New list" button to open the list
editing dialog:
</p><div class="figure"><a name="xfdesktop-list-fig"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 3. Backdrop List</b></p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="images/xfdesktop-list.png" alt="Shows backdrop list manager."></div></div></div><p>You may want to change the default path and name of your
custom list of backdrops in the "List file" entry.
</p><p>You can easily add an image file by clicking the "plus" button.
That action will open a file-browsing window. You can remove a file,
if you select it in the list and click the "minus" button. When your
list is complete, click the "Save" button to save it. If you want to
modify its content later, use the "Edit list" button of the
Backdrop settings manager.
</p><p>You can recover an older list by dropping its name.list file on
the backdrop settings dialog from a file manager.</p><p>To refresh the backdrop with a new random image from the list
just run the <b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> command again, e.g. from a terminal or the run
dialog, or <b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> [-reload].
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Don't set backdrop</span></dt><dd><p>There are many programs that can set the backdrop image. If
you prefer to use one of those programs, you can check this option
and xfdesktop will refrain from setting the backdrop.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="xfdesktop-menu"></a><b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> root menu</h2></div></div></div><p><b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> provides a mouse menu that appears when you click on the
desktop backdrop with your right or middle mouse button.
</p><p>A right-click on the desktop backdrop opens a menu that allows you to
start some applications. Its configuration file, menu.xml, can be found
under the path <tt class="filename">$sysconfdir/xfce4/menu.xml</tt>. For binary
packages $sysconfdir is often <tt class="filename">/etc</tt> and for source
compiles it defaults to <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc</tt>.
</p><p>While it is possible to edit the file manually, the recommended method
for editing the menu.xml file is via the Xfce 4 Menu Editor, which can be
found by running <b class="application"><tt>xfce4-menueditor</tt></b>. The menu
editor also supports drag'n'drop from the file manager.
</p><p>NOTE: If you choose to edit the file manually, menu.xml has to be in
UTF-8 encoding for the toolkit to be able to display accented or other
non-ASCII characters. Therefore, you need an editor that supports UTF-8,
like <b class="application"><tt>gedit</tt></b>.
</p><div class="figure"><a name="root-menu-fig"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 4. <tt class="application">xfdesktop</tt> right-click mouse menu</b></p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="images/root_menu.png" alt="Shows xfdesktop right-click mouse menu.
"></div></div></div><p>A middle-click on the desktop backdrop shows a list of all opened
windows ordered by workspace. It also allows you to add or remove
a workspace.
</p><div class="figure"><a name="root-menu2-fig"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 5. <tt class="application">xfdesktop</tt> middle-click mouse menu</b></p><div class="screenshot"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="images/root_menu2.png" alt="Shows xfdesktop middle-click mouse menu.
"></div></div></div><p>You can open the menu or window list from the commandline as well.
This can be useful for keyboard shortcuts. To open the menu run the
command <b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> <b class="application"><tt>-menu</tt></b>, and for the windowlist use
<b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> <b class="application"><tt>-windowlist</tt></b>.
</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="xfdesktop-copyright"></a>About xfdesktop</h2></div></div></div><p><b class="application"><tt>xfdesktop</tt></b> was written by Jasper Huijsmans
(<tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:huysmans@users.sourceforge.net">huysmans@users.sourceforge.net</a>></tt>), Olivier Fourdan
(<tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:fourdan@xfce.org">fourdan@xfce.org</a>></tt>), Biju Chacko
(<tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:botsie@myrealbox.com">botsie@myrealbox.com</a>></tt>), and Brian Tarricone
(<tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:kelnos@xfce.org">kelnos@xfce.org</a>></tt>).
For more information, please visit the
<a href="http://www.xfce.org" target="_top">Xfce web site</a>.
</p><p>To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or
this manual, send an email to the
<a href="http://www.lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev/" target="_top">xfce4-dev</a> mailing list — this is the preferred
method — or use the Xfce's <a href="http://bugs.xfce.org/" target="_top">bug
tracking system</a>.
If you have questions about the use or installation of this package,
please ask on the
<a href="http://www.lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce/" target="_top">xfce</a> mailing list.
</p><p> This program is distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
</p><p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
USA.</p></div></div></body></html>
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