---
name: "sawfish"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sawfish"
version: "1:1.11.90-1.2+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sawfish"
---

# sawfish(1)

Sawfish window manager.

## NAME

sawfish — Sawfish window manager.

## SYNOPSIS

**sawfish** \[**--display** *\[=DPY\]* *\]  \[***--multihead** *\]  \[***--visual** *\[=VISUAL\]* *\]  \[***--depth** *\[=DEPTH\]* *\]  \[***--disable-nls** *\]  \[***FILE** *\]  \[***--batch** *\]  \[***--interp** *\]  \[***-f, --call** *FUNCTION* *\]  \[***-l, --load** *FILE* *\]  \[***--version** *\]  \[***--no-rc** *\]  \[***-q, --quit** *\]*

## 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 or faster*  *than existing window managers.*

## 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*.

- **--disable-nls**

  Disable internationalization of messages.

- **FILE**

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

- **--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, --quit-**

  Terminate the interpreter process.

## 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).