quartz-wm(1) BSD General Commands Manual quartz-wm(1)NAMEquartz-wm — Aqua Window Manager for the X Window System on OS X
SYNOPSISquartz-wm [--prefs-domain domain]
DESCRIPTIONquartz-wm is a window manager for the X Window System. It provides title‐
bars for X11 windows that aim to match the look and feel of native Mac OS
X windows.
The following options are available:
--prefs-domain domain
This option can be used to override the domain used to read pref‐
erences from. This is useful if you want to have multiple
X11.apps running at the same time.
CUSTOMIZATIONquartz-wm can be customized using the defaults(1) command. Examples are
shown using the default org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 domain. If you use
another domain (either through the X11_PREFS_DOMAIN environment variable
or the --prefs-domain command line argument), then you need to substitute
that instead. quartz-wm can be forced to re-read these preferences by
sending it a SIGHUP using kill(1).
The available options are:
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 wm_ffm -bool true
Enables focus-follows-mouse mode. Windows belonging to the X
server may then be focused by moving the pointer over them, as
well as the default mode of clicking in them.
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 wm_click_through -bool true
Disables the default behavior of swallowing window-activating
mouse events.
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 wm_limit_size -bool true
Limit the size of each window to the size of the current head.
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.x11 wm_focus_on_new_window -bool
false
Don't tell X11.app to take focus when a new X11 window is cre‐
ated.
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 wm_window_shading -bool true
Enables double clicking on a titlebar to shade the window
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 wm_auto_quit -bool true
Automatically quit quartz-wm (thus shutting down the X11 server)
when the last window is closed.
defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 wm_auto_quit_timeout -int 3
Set the timeout for the auto-quit feature. If wm_auto_quit is
true, quartz-wm will wait this many seconds before attempting to
shutdown. If another window is created in that time, quartz-wm
will not shutdown.
LOGGINGquartz-wm sends messages to syslogd(8) using asl(3). These logs are sent
to the org.macosforge.xquartz facility, and you can watch these logs
using the following syslog(1) command:
$ syslog -w -k Facility eq org.macosforge.xquartz
By default, debugging logs are filtered out. You can adjust the filter
to print debugging information for the running quartz-wm with this syslog
1 command
$ syslog -cquartz-wm-d
See syslog(1) or asl(3) for more information on syslog filtering.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
DISPLAY
This variable is used to determine which X server to use.
X11_PREFS_DOMAIN
This variable is used as Ar domain if the Fl -prefs-domain com‐
mand line option is not given. If neither Fl -prefs-domain nor
X11_PREFS_DOMAIN are set, then the default value of org.macos‐
forge.xquartz.X11 is used instead.
DEBUG If this variable is set, debug logging will be printed to stderr
in addition to asl.
SEE ALSOX(7), Xquartz(1), xpbproxy(1), xrdb(1), twm(1)BSD May 13, 2011 BSD