awww-kill(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so welcome to awww-kill(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual — the command itself is awww-kill, and she is here to shut that daemon down the correct way. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

awww kill

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -a, --all — send this command to all active awww-daemon namespaces. yes, every single one, bestie 💖
• -n, --namespace <namespace> — which wayland namespace to send this command to.

You can specify this option multiple times to send commands to multiple namespaces at once: awww kill -n <namespace1> -n <namespace 2>.

This affects the name of the awww-daemon socket we will use to communicate with. Specifically, our socket name is ${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}-awww-daemon.<specified namespace>.socket.

Some compositors can have several different wallpapers per output. This lets you differentiate between them. Most users will probably not have to set anything in this option. no cap 🦋

• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with '-h'). your little map, bestie 🗺️

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Kills the daemon. This is the recommended way of doing it, since we wait to make sure the socket file was deleted, thus confirming the daemon exited. slay, clean exit behavior ✨

Note that sending SIGTERM to the daemon would work correctly, but sending SIGKILL would make daemon leave behind the socket file. This is not a big problem; it would only cause a warning to be printed next time the daemon is initialized. so maybe don’t go full chaos gremlin with SIGKILL unless you’re ready for that warning 💀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• awww-daemon(1) — go say hi to the daemon page too 🫶

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⭐ that’s the whole page, bestie: awww-kill(1), dated 2026-05-07. mwah 💋