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.TH XFDESKTOP 1 "Version 4.11.0" "29 September 2013"

.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.
.TP
.B \--arrange
Automatically arrange all the icons on the desktop
.TP
.B \--quit
Cause \fBxfdesktop\fP to quit

.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
.br
<bjt23@cornell.edu>.