NAME

       backstep - Backstep is a program that draws icons for minimized windows on your desktop.

SYNOPSIS

       backstep [options]...

DESCRIPTION

       Backstep  is  a  program that draws icons for minimized windows on your desktop. It doesn't depend on the
       window manager or on a desktop-drawing program (for example, I use it with Nautilus). It is meant to work
       with  window  managers that are EWHM compliant. However, I only know for sure that it works with Metacity
       and Xfwm4. And I know that it doesn't work with Fluxbox and  that  it  only  partially  works  with  Kwin
       (hopefully this will be corrected soon). I haven't yet tested it with other window managers.

       Drawing  icons  for  minimized windows on the desktop might be considered a step backwards by many people
       (hence the name), but I find it useful to identify minimized windows by position rather than by name.

FEATURES

       1)  Simple to use. You do not have to configure anything - just run 'backstep'.

       2)  Session management support - at least to the extent that backstep adds itself to the session so  that
       it will be started automatically the next time you log in to your desktop environment.

       3)  Grouping. Windows can be grouped together (by right clicking on their icons and selecting a group) so
       that when one window from the group is shown or hidden, all windows in the group are shown or hidden.

       4)  Configurable. You can make some adjustments to the way the icons look. This is done through a  simple
       configuration dialog launched by right-clicking on an icon.

OPTIONS

         -?, --help               Show these help options
         -c, --client=ID          Client id for session management
         -n, --no-daemon          Do not run as a daemon
         -v, --version            output version information and exit
         --display=DISPLAY        X display to use

AUTHOR

       Backstep was written by Christopher Carroll <christopher@salbot.com>.

       This manual page was written by Mario Limonciello <superm1@gmail.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be
       used by others).

                                               September 27, 2006                                    BACKSTEP(1)