---
name: "sapphire"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sapphire"
version: "0.15.8-9.1"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sapphire"
---

# sapphire(1)

minimal but configurable window manager

## NAME

sapphire — minimal but configurable window manager

## SYNOPSIS

**sapphire** \[**-display** *displayname  \|* **-version** *\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **sapphire** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian GNU/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).

## OPTIONS

- **-display** *displayname*

  Use the X-server display 'displayname'.

- **-version**

  Show version of program.

## 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).

## SEE ALSO

XFree86 (1), update-menus (1).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Chris Boyle \<cmb@debian.org\> for  the **Debian GNU/Linux** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU Free Documentation  License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free  Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover  Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.