awww-pause(1)

hey bestie 👋💖 you're looking at awww-pause(1) from the General Commands Manual — manual name folded in near the top like a lil name tag, cute. This is the page for the pause command, and yes it's iconic. Let's get into it. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

awww-pause

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

awww pause

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -a, --all — send this command to all active awww-daemon namespaces. Every single one, no cap. 💅
• -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 pause -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 allows you to differentiate between them. Most users will probably not have to set anything in this option. iykyk 🦋

• -h, --help — print help (see a summary with -h).

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Toggles the pause state of the daemon. An animating gif will become frozen on the last rendered frame until the command is run again. Literally a freeze-frame moment 😭✨

Note that this will only pause the animation rendering of the daemon. It will still respond to awww client commands. So it's paused, not asleep at the wheel, bestie. 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

awww-daemon(1)

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mwah 💋 — source/version: awww-pause(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 2026-05-07. bye bestie 🫶