NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       icewm-session [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       icewm-session is an implementation of a X.Org session manager and can be run from a X11 session setup. It
       runs icewm as default window manager and controls the life cycle of 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.

       -o, --output=FILE
           Redirect all output to FILE.

       -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 the X11 server.

       -h, --help
           Give a list of all supported options and exit.

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

       -C, --copying
           Print copying permissions and exit.

   DEBUGGING OPTIONS
       -v, ---valgrind
           Let "/usr/bin/valgrind" run icewm.  Thoroughly examines the execution of icewm.

       -g, ---catchsegv
           Let "/usr/bin/catchsegv" run icewm.  Gives a backtrace if icewm segfaults.

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, 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 yad, xmessage, kdialog  or
       zenity.   This dialog presents a choice between restarting icewm, starting a terminal, or abort execution
       of icewm-session.

ENVIRONMENT

       ICEWM_OPTIONS
           A space separated list of options which will be added to the command line invocation of  icewm.  This
           can be set in the env file.

SEE ALSO

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

BUGS

       Please report bugs 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.

icewm 2.9.6                                        2022-02-23                                   ICEWM-SESSION(1)