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sawfish(1)		     General Commands Manual		      sawfish(1)

NAME
     sawfish -- Sawfish window manager.

SYNOPSIS
     sawfish

DESCRIPTION
     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 as existing window man-
     agers.

OPTIONS
     --disable-nls
	       Disable internationalization of messages.

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

     --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, --quitTerminate the interpreter process.

     --5-buttons
	       Support	keyboard  layout switching, but drop mouse buttons 6 - 8
	       support.

     --replace Replace the running window manager with Sawfish.

   Display 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.

   Customization Files Options
     --custom-file FILE
	       Overrides the default custom file ~/.sawfish/custom.

     --window-history-file FILE
	       Overrides the default window history file  ~/.sawfish/window-his-
	       tory.

     --no-rc   Do not load the rc file.

   Session Management Options
     --sm-client-id ID

     --sm-prefix PREFIX

   Debugging Option
     --sync    Read src/display.c. Don't use it unless you're sure.

SEE ALSO
     Sawfish  is  documented  fully  by John Harper	  available via the Info
     system.

AUTHOR
     This manual page was written by Christian Marillat marillat@debian.org  for
     the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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