NAME

        icewm-session - X.Org session manager provider with IceWM

SYNOPSIS

       icewm-session [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       icewm-session is an implementation of X.Org session manager and can be run from X11
       session setup. It runs icewm as default window manager and handles the startup and life
       cycle control of the WM and all related support applications.

OPTIONS

   SPECIFIC OPTIONS
       -c, --config=FILE
           Let IceWM load preferences from FILE.

       -t, --theme=FILE
           Let IceWM load the theme FILE.

       -i, --icewm=FILE
           Use FILE as the IceWM window manager.

       -a, --alpha
           Use a 32-bit visual for translucency.

       -b, --nobg
           Do not start icewmbg.

       -n, --notray
           Do not start icewmtray.  This is only applicable if IceWM was explicitly configured to
           use an external icewmtray process.

       -s, --sound
           Also start icesound.

   GENERAL OPTIONS
       -d, --display=DISPLAY
           Use DISPLAY to connect to the X server.  If this option is missing then DISPLAY is
           read from the environment variable "DISPLAY".

       --sync
           Use a slower synchronous mode communication with X11 server.

       -h, --help
           Print a brief usage statement to stdout and exit.

       -V, --version
           Print the program version to stdout and exit.

       -C, --copying
           Print copying permissions to stdout for the program and exit.

USAGE

       On startup icewm-session executes the following steps.  From the file env in the
       configuration directory it loads additional environment variables, if that file exists.
       Then it will start icewmbg to manage root background colors and images.  It may also start
       icesound, if this was enabled at configuration time.  Then icewm is started.

       If there exists an executable script startup in the configuration directory, it will be
       executed. It may contain commands to initialize X11 settings with xset, load keyboard
       configuration, start a compositing manager like compton and load system tray applications.

       When icewm exits or is told to exit, icewm-session will execute a shutdown script, if it
       exists in the configuration directory.  When this finishes, icewm-session will terminate
       icewm, icewmbg and icesound. Finally icewm-session will exit.

       If the icewm process crashes then icewm-session will attempt to restart it. If two such
       crashes occur in a short period, then icewm-session will attempt to popup a dialog using
       either xmessage, kdialog or zenity.  This dialog asks if the user wishes to continue
       restarting icewm or abort execution of icewm-session.

SEE ALSO

       icewm(1), icewm-env(5), icewm-shutdown(5), icewm-startup(5), icewmbg(1).

BUGS

       icewm-session had no known bugs at the time of release.  Please report bugs for current
       versions to the source code repository at <https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues>.

AUTHOR

       Brian Bidulock <mailto:bidulock@openss7.org>.

       See --copying for full copyright notice and copying permissions.

LICENSE

       IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License.  See the COPYING file in
       the distribution or use the --copying flag to display copying permissions.