Command-line Options
The general usage of the application in the command-line is:
xfdesktop [OPTIONS...]
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. Detailed explanations are in the following section.
- Help Options
- -h, --help; --help-all; --help-gtk; --help-sm-client
- Application Options
- -V; --version; -R, --reload; -N, --next; -M, --menu; -W, --windowlist; -A, --arrange; -e, --enable-debug; -d, --disable-debug; -D, --disable-wm-check; -Q, --quit; --display
- GTK+ Options
- --class, --name, --display, --gdk-debug, --gdk-no-debug, --gtk-module, --g-fatal-warnings, --gtk-debug, --gtk-no-debug
- Session Management Options
- --sm-client-id, --sm-client-disable
Help Options
- -h, --help
- Show help options
- --help-all
- Show all help options
- --help-gtk
- Show GTK+ options
- --help-sm-client
- Show session management options
Application Options
- -V, --version
- Display version information
- -R, --reload
- Reload all settings
- -N, --next
- Advance to the next wallpaper on the current workspace
- -M, --menu
- Pop up the menu (at the current mouse position)
- -W, --windowlist
- Pop up the window list (at the current mouse position)
- -A, --arrange
- Automatically arrange all the icons on the desktop
- -e, --enable-debug
- Enable debug messages
- -d, --disable-debug
- Disable debug messages
- -D, --disable-wm-check
- Do not wait for a window manager on startup
- -Q, --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
- --display=DISPLAY
- X display to use
- --gdk-debug=FLAGS
- GDK debugging flags to set
- --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS
- GDK debugging flags to unset
- --gtk-module=MODULES
- Load additional GTK+ modules
- --g-fatal-warnings
- Make all warnings fatal
- --gtk-debug=FLAGS
- GTK+ debugging flags to set
- --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS
- GTK+ debugging flags to unset
Session Management Options
- --sm-client-id=ID
- Session management client ID
- --sm-client-disable
- Disable session management