awww-restore(1)

🎀 awww-restore(1) 🎀

okay so this is the awww-restore(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and we're gonna make it make sense, bestie. Slay. No cap. 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

awww-restore — that's the name. Literally it. Iconic minimalism, periodt. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

awww restore

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay bestie, here are the flags. Every single one, no skipping. 🫶

• -a, --all — Send this command to all active awww-daemon namespaces. 💖
• -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 restore -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. 🦋

• -o, --outputs — Comma separated list of outputs to restore. Use awww query to know which outputs are currently being used.

If it isn't set, all outputs will be restored. 🎀

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Restores the last displayed image on the specified outputs. 💖

This can be used to split initialization (with awww init --no-daemon) and cache loading into different steps, in order to avoid race condition traps. 🪤✨

You can also use this command to restore the last displayed image when reconnecting a monitor. 🖥️💫

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

awww-clear-cache(1) — go check that one out too, bestie. 💅

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