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.TH XFDESKTOP 1 "Version 4.5.x" "2 December 2007"

.SH NAME
xfdesktop \- The Xfce 4 Desktop Environment's desktop manager

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xfdesktop
.br
.B xfdesktop
.I [options]
.br

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBxfdesktop\fP 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 \fBxfdesktop\fP without any arguments.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \--reload
Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to reload all its
settings, including loading a new random backdrop if using a backdrop list.
.TP
.B \--menu
Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to pop up the
applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
.TP
.B \--windowlist
Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to pop up the window
list menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.

.SH ENVIRONMENT
\fBxfdesktop\fP's behavior is affected by the following environment variables.
.PP
.TP
.B XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files.  If this
environment variable is not present, it defaults to
.I ~/.config
.TP
.B 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
.I /etc/xdg

.SH FILES
\fBxfdesktop\fP searches for a menu description file in
.IR $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/menus/xfce-applications.menu .
\fBxfdesktop\fP can also use a user-customized menu in
.IR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/menus/ .

.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs to
.IR http://bugzilla.xfce.org/ .
Development discussion should be conducted on the
.IR xfce4-dev@xfce.org
mailing list.  Usage-related questions should be directed to the
.IR xfce@xfce.org
mailing list.

.SH HOMEPAGE
.I http://xfce.org/

.SH AUTHOR
Jasper Huijsmans <huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>, Benedikt Meurer
<benny@xfce.org>, and Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cornell.edu>.

This manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone
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<bjt23@cornell.edu>.