SYNOPSIS
[OPTIONS ... ]DESCRIPTION
The program starts either the window manager specified by the WM variable or the first window manager listed in ~/.wmanagerrc (or an X terminal emulator if none), and when it exits, runs wmanager(1) to prompt the user for the next window manager. It loops doing this until the user chooses ``Exit this session'' in wmanager(1). Any options given to will be passed on to wmanager(1).If the WM environment variable is set, the program tries to interpret it as a window manager specification in the following ways in the specified order:
- a full path to an executable file to run as the window manager;
-
the name of a window manager listed in the
/.wmanagerrc
file; e.g.
``fluxbox''
would match the following line:
fluxbox=/usr/bin/startfluxbox
- the program name of a window manager listed in the /.wmanagerrc file; e.g. ``startfluxbox'' would match the above example.
- the start of such a program name; e.g. ``start'' would match the above example.
- the end of such a program name; e.g. ``box'' would match the above example.
If the WM variable is set and there is more than one line in ~/.wmanagerrc that matches the specification, will exit with an error message.
As mentioned above, if no window manager is specified in the WM environment variable or found in the ~/.wmanagerrc file, the program attempts to start an X terminal emulator. If the WMTERM environment variable is set, the program uses it as the path to the emulator. Otherwise it searches the user's path for a program named ``x-terminal-emulator'' ``urxvt'' ``rxvt'' or ``xterm'' in this order, and starts the first one found using its full path. If none of the common terminal emulators on the above list is found, the program just runs ``xterm'' in the hope that something will come up on the user's display.
ENVIRONMENT
The program uses the following environment variables:- WM
- The name, path, or partial path to the first window manager to execute.
- WMTERM
- The name of the X terminal emulator to execute if no window manager could be found in the ~/.wmanagerrc file. If not specified, the program searches the user's path as described above.
EXAMPLE
To start using , create a ~/.wmanagerrc file - generally with wmanagerrc-update1 - and add something like the following at the end of your ~/.xsession file:
exec wmanager-loop -geometry +570+585