Command-line Options
The general usage of the command line options is:
xfdesktop [OPTION...]
Only one instance of xfdesktop can be running at a time, and should be started by running xfdesktop without any arguments.
Here is a summary of all the options, grouped by type. Explanations are in the following sections.
- Help Options
- -h, --help; --help-all; --help-gtk; --help-sm-client
- Application Options
- -V; --version; --reload; --menu; --windowlist; --arrange; --quit; --display=DISPLAY
Help Options
- -h, --help
- Show help options and exit
- --help-all
- Show all help options and exit
- --help-gtk
- Show GTK+ Options and exit
- --help-sm-client
- Show session management options and exit
Application Options
- -V, --version
- Display version information and exit
- --reload
- Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to reload all its settings, including loading a new random backdrop if using a backdrop list
- --menu
- Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to pop up the applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor
- --windowlist
- Causes an already-running instance of xfdesktop to pop up the window list menu at the current position of the mouse cursor
- --arrange
- Automatically arrange all the icons on the desktop
- --quit
- Cause xfdesktop to quit
- --display=DISPLAY
- X display to use
GTK+ Options
- --class=CLASS
- Program class as used by the window manager
- --name=NAME
- Program name as used by the window manager
- --screen=SCREEN
- X screen to use
- --sync
- Make X calls synchronous
- --gtk-module=MODULES
- Load additional GTK+ modules
- --g-fatal-warnings
- Make all warnings fatal
Session management options
- --sm-client-id=ID
- Session management client ID
- --sm-client-disable
- Disable session management