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WMANAGER-LOOP(1)	    General Commands Manual	      WMANAGER-LOOP(1)

NAME
       wmanager-loop --	loop running window managers chosen with wmanager

SYNOPSIS
       wmanager-loop [OPTIONS ...]

DESCRIPTION
       The  wmanager-loop  program  starts  the	first window manager listed in
       ~/.wmanagerrc (or an X terminal emulator	if none), and when  it	exits,
       runs  wmanager(1)  to  prompt the user for the next window manager.  It
       loops doing  this  until	 the  user  chooses  "Exit  this  session"  in
       wmanager(1).   Any  options given to wmanager-loop will be passed on to
       wmanager(1).

       As mentioned above, if no window	manager	is found in the	 ~/.wmanagerrc
       file,  the wmanager-loop	program	attempts to start an X terminal	emula-
       tor.  If	the WMTERM environment variable	is set,	the wmanager-loop pro-
       gram uses it as the path	to the emulator.  Otherwise  it	 searches  the
       user's path for a program named "x-terminal-emulator", "urxvt", "rxvt",
       or "xterm" in this order, and starts the	first one found	using its full
       path.   If  none	 of the	common terminal	emulators on the above list is
       found, the wmanager-loop	program	just runs "xterm"  in  the  hope  that
       something will come up on the user's display.

ENVIRONMENT
       The wmanager-loop program uses the following environment	variables:

       WMTERM  The  name  of  the  X terminal emulator to execute if no	window
	       manager could be	found in the ~/.wmanagerrc file.  If not spec-
	       ified, the wmanager-loop	program	searches the  user's  path  as
	       described above.

EXAMPLE
       To  start  using	wmanager-loop, create a	~/.wmanagerrc file - generally
       with wmanagerrc-update(1) - and add something like the following	at the
       end of your ~/.xsession file:

	     exec wmanager-loop	-geometry +570+585

SEE ALSO
       wmanager(1), wmanagerrc-update(1)

HISTORY
       The wmanager-loop program was written by	Tommi  Virtanen	 in  2000  and
       later  modified	by  Peter  Pentchev.   This manual page	was originally
       written in perldoc format by Tommi Virtanen in 2000, and	 converted  to
       mdoc format and updated by Peter	Pentchev in 2008.

AUTHORS
       Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
       Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>

FreeBSD	Ports 14.quarterly	 May 22, 2008		      WMANAGER-LOOP(1)

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