WMANAGER(1) BSD General Commands Manual WMANAGER(1)NAMEwmanager — choose a window manager and launch it
SYNOPSISwmanager [OPTIONS ...]
DESCRIPTION
The wmanager program displays a choice of the window managers listed in
the ~/.wmanagerrc file. When one is picked, the related command is writ‐
ten to standard output, intended to be used by shell scripts. If the
program is exited without choosing a window manager, “-1” is written to
standard output.
-fg COLOR
Set the foreground color.
-bg COLOR
Set the background color.
-bg2 COLOR
Set the widget background color
-di[splay] host:n.n
Set the X display.
-dn[d], -nod[nd]
Enable/disable drag & drop, probably does nothing.
-g[eometry] WxH+X+Y
Set the window size and location.
-i[conic]
Start as iconified.
-k[bd], -nok[bd]
Enable/disable keyboard support.
-na[me] CLASSNAME
Set the X window class.
-s[cheme] SCHEME
Unknown, probably does nothing useful.
-ti[tle] WINDOWTITLE
Set the window title.
-to[oltips], -not[ooltips]
Enable/disable tooltips, probably does nothing.
EXAMPLE
To start using wmanager, create a ~/.wmanagerrc file - generally with
wmanagerrc-update(1) - and add something like the following at the end of
your ~/.xsession file:
WM="$(wmanager -geometry +570+585)"
...
exec $WM
See also wmanager-loop(1) for a nicer way to start wmanager.
SEE ALSOwmanager(1), wmanager-loop(1), wmanagerrc-update(1), X(7x)HISTORY
The wmanager program was written by Meik Tessmer in 1999. This manual
page was originally written in perldoc format by Tommi Virtanen in 2000,
and converted to mdoc format by Peter Pentchev in 2008.
AUTHORS
The wmanager program - Meik Tessmer ⟨fuller@daemogorgon.net⟩.
The manual page - Tommi Virtanen ⟨tv@debian.org⟩ and Peter Pentchev
⟨roam@ringlet.net⟩.
BSD May 22, 2008 BSD
