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WMANAGER(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       WMANAGER(1)

NAME

     wmanager -- choose a window manager and launch it

SYNOPSIS

     wmanager [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
     written 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 ALSO

     wmanager(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>.

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								   May 22, 2008 							       BSD

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WMANAGERRC-UPDATE(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				      WMANAGERRC-UPDATE(1)

NAME

     wmanagerrc-update -- update your wmanager settings automatically

SYNOPSIS

     wmanagerrc-update

DESCRIPTION

     The wmanagerrc-update program creates or updates the ~/.wmanagerrc file with a list of X11 window managers currently installed on the system.
     On systems that do not have a convention for registering X window managers, wmanagerrc-update simply copies the contents of the
     ~/.wmanagerrc.user file to ~/.wmanagerrc.

     On systems that register the installed X window managers, the wmanagerrc-update program adds all of them to the wmanager(1) configuration so
     that they are available soon after installation.  Currently, only Debian GNU/Linux and similar systems that use the update-alternaties(8)
     mechanism are supported.  Locally installed window managers and things not registered as alternatives for x-window-manager(1) can be added to
     the file ~/.wmanagerrc.user in the .wmanagerrc format; see the wmanager(1) README file, usually /usr/share/doc/wmanager/README.gz, for more
     information.  The wmanagerrc-update program uses the entries first from ~/.wmanagerrc.user, then from the the registered window managers, in
     the order of update-alternatives(8) priorities.  You can override this by listing entries in wanted order in ~/.wmanagerrc.order, separated
     by whitespace.

BUGS

     Concurrent wmanagerrc-update processes may clobber the .wmanagerrc file.

SEE ALSO

     wmanager(1), wmanager-loop(1), update-alternatives(8)

HISTORY

     The wmanagerrc-update program was written by Tommi Virtanen in 2000 and later modified by Peter Pentchev.	This manual page was originally
     written in perldoc format by Tommi Virtanen in 2000, and converted to mdoc format and updated by Peter Pentchev in 2008.

AUTHORS

     Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
     Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>

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								   May 22, 2008 							       BSD
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