SWITCHDESK(1)

📦 version 5.0.2, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 SWITCHDESK 💖

okay bestie, welcome to switchdesk from the General Commands Manual — she's a graphical and text mode interface for choosing your desktop environment, and she's about to change your whole login vibe ✨

✨ NAME ✨

switchdesk — graphical and text mode interface for choosing desktop environment 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

switchdesk [desktop name]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, switchdesk gives you a genuinely simple method of choosing between the various desktop environments available under Red Hat Linux, including GNOME, KDE, and FVWM2. no cap, that's the whole point 💅

if X Windows is running, switchdesk will bring up a dialog box which allows the user to choose between the available desktops installed on the system. and the way this dialog follows the appearance of the user's current desktop as closely as possible?? iconic behaviour, honestly. it's giving "I know your aesthetic and I respect it" 🫶

if a desktop name — KDE, GNOME, XFce4, FVWM, WINDOWMAKER — is supplied as an argument, or X is not running, switchdesk can be used from the command line. so either way, you're covered, bestie 🦋

💀 RETURN CODES 💀

  • 0 — success, we ate 🔥
  • 1 — error, not me crying 😭

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • ~/.Xclients, ~/.Xclients-default — stores the currently selected desktop. this is where the receipts live, iykyk 📝

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> — the main character who made all of this happen 🌈

and that's the whole page, babe 💜 this one came to you from the 4th Berkeley Distribution, dated Mon Feb 14 2000 — a whole legend. go pick a desktop and slay, periodt 💅✨

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