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.TH XFDESKTOP 1 "Version 4.1.90" "October 25, 2004"

.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.  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_CACHE_HOME
Specifies the root for all user-specific cache data.  If this environment
variable is not present, it defaults to
.I ~/.cache

.SH FILES
\fBxfdesktop\fP reads the contents of the applications menu from the
file
.IR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml .
\fBxfdesktop\fP also keeps some menu cache data in
.IR $XDG_CACHE_HOME/xfce4/desktop/ .

.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>.