sapphire — minimal but configurable window manager
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Description
This manual page documents briefly the sapphire command.
This manual page was written for the DebianGNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
have a manual page.
sapphire is a minimal but configurable window manager for X11R6. It supports themes in the form of X
resource files, and has a customisable menu.
The Debian version receives Debian menu entries automatically in a "Debian" submenu by default, you can
add entries specifically to sapphire (in the rest of the menu) in the default-menu file. For more
information, see update-menus (1) and the FILES section below.
Users can also set their own options in $HOME/.sapphire/wmconf (an X resource file).
Files
/etc/X11/sapphire/menu/default-menu
menu entries specific to sapphire (you can edit this one, it's a conffile)
/etc/X11/sapphire/menu/menudefs.hook
Debian menu entries in sapphire's format, not read directly, do not edit (edit default-menu
instead)
/etc/X11/sapphire/menu/default
this menu file is the one sapphire actually reads, it is automatically generated from the other
two by update-menus, do not edit (edit default-menu instead)
$HOME/.sapphire/wmconf
user-specific options
/usr/share/sapphire/themes
themes directory, all of the above may refer to themes from here (the files themselves are X
resource files)
History
Sapphire was originally developed from Decklin Foster's aewm, and also uses some code from Blackbox (for
gradients).
Name
sapphire — minimal but configurable window manager
Options
-displaydisplayname
Use the X-server display 'displayname'.
-version Show version of program.
See Also
XFree86 (1), update-menus (1).
Synopsis
sapphire [-displaydisplayname|-version]
