icewm-shutdown(5)

icewm-shutdown5

Name

 icewm-shutdown - icewm shutdown configuration file

Synopsis

 $ICEWM_PRIVCFG/shutdown
 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/shutdown
 $HOME/.icewm/shutdown
 /usr/etc/icewm/shutdown
 /usr/share/icewm/shutdown

Description

Contains commands to be executed on icewm shutdown. This is an executable script with commands to be executed in the last stage of icewm termination. Typically they may undo some of the effects of the startup script. It is run by icewm-session(1) when icewm terminates.

Files

Locations for the shutdown file are as follows:

 $ICEWM_PRIVCFG/shutdown
 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icewm/shutdown
 $HOME/.icewm/shutdown
 /usr/etc/icewm/shutdown
 /usr/share/icewm/shutdown

The locations are searched in the order listed; the first file found is read and the remainder ignored.

See also

icewm-session(1), icewm-startup(5).

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

Author

Brian Bidulock <mailto:[email protected]>.

License

IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the COPYING file in the distribution.

From icewm 4.1.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.