sawfish(1)

sawfish1

Sawfish window manager.

Usage

sawfish [--display [=DPY]] [--multihead] [--visual [=VISUAL]] [--depth [=DEPTH]] [--disable-nls] [FILE] [--batch] [--interp] [-f, --call FUNCTION] [-l, --load FILE] [--version] [--no-rc] [-q, --quit]

Overview

Sawfish is a lisp-extensible window manager for X11. Its aim is to allow all areas of window management (decoration, manipulation) to be customized as far as is possible, yet still remain as fast or faster than existing window managers.

Options

--display=DPY

Connect to X display DPY.

--multihead

Fork a copy of sawfish for each screen.

--visual=VISUAL

Preferred VISUAL type.

--depth=DEPTH

Preferred color DEPTH.

--disable-nls

Disable internationalization of messages.

FILE

Load the Lisp file FILE (from the cwd if possible, implies --batch mode).

--batch

Batch mode: process options and exit.

--interp

Interpreted mode: don't load compiled Lisp files.

-f, --call FUNCTION

Call Lisp function FUNCTION.

-l, --load FILE

Load the file of Lisp forms called FUNCTION.

--version

Print version details.

--no-rc

Don't load rc or site-init files.

-q, --quit-

Terminate the interpreter process.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0–8
  5. 9–10
  6. 11–13

--quit- since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

--5-buttons until Debian 10 (Buster); --custom-file until Debian 10 (Buster); --quit until Debian 10 (Buster); --replace until Debian 10 (Buster); --sm-client-id until Debian 10 (Buster); --sm-prefix until Debian 10 (Buster); --sync until Debian 10 (Buster); --window-history-file until Debian 10 (Buster).

Author

This manual page was written by Christian Marillat [email protected] for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From sawfish 1:1.11.90-1.2+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.