COMPIZ(1)

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💖 COMPIZ(1) — the glow-up era of window managers 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about compiz, and she is literally the icon, the moment, the blueprint. this is the manual page for the compiz command, straight out of the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

compiz — OpenGL window and compositing manager 💅

like, she manages your windows AND she composites them. on OpenGL. main character energy fr fr.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

compiz [options] [plugins]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options first, plugins after, go off 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so compiz is a compositing window manager that uses OpenGL for rendering. that's the whole deal, bestie — she draws your windows with your GPU and makes everything look expensive. iconic behaviour, honestly.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

every single flag, no skips, no gatekeeping:

  • --debug — turns on debug mode. for when you want her to tell you everything that's happening 🙈
  • --display DISPLAY — manages the display called DISPLAY instead of whatever name she'd normally pull from the $DISPLAY environment variable. so like, you can point her at a different screen and she'll just go with it 🫶
  • --help — shows a lil summary of the options and then exits. she's helpful and then she leaves. boundaries, we love to see it ✨
  • --keep-desktop-hints — retains the existing desktop hints. keeps the old ones around instead of tossing them 💜
  • --no-auto-add-ccp — do not automatically load the Compiz config plugin (ccp). so if you're a control freak about your config plugin, this one's for you 🧚
  • --replace — replaces any existing window managers on the given X display. she's not sharing the throne, periodt 👑
  • --send-startup-message — sends a message to all connected X clientd once startup is complete. (that's their spelling, not mine, and I'm keeping it exactly as written, bestie 😭)
  • --sm-disable — disables session management. no saving your session, no remembering your setup, we're just out here raw-dogging the session 🌈
  • --sm-client-id ID — uses the given ID as the client ID for session management. you hand her an ID, she uses it. simple as 🍓
  • --sync — makes all X calls synchronous. all of them. every single one. synchronous. 🔥
  • --version — prints the version of the program and exits. quick lil flex and then she's gone 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

compiz was written by David Reveman <davidr@novell.com> and others. shoutout to David and the mystery "others" — the unsung heroes, the group chat lurkers, the real ones 🫶✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and composite 💖

cute lil sign-off: this page comes from the Compiz source, dated 2015-07-17, and it lives at COMPIZ(1) in the manual. mwah, bye 🎀💅

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