cowident(1)

📦 version 0.3, in fedora 44

💖 cowident(1) — the girlies' guide to identifying a window 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for cowident, living in section 1 of the manual. it's the little tool that tells you what a window actually is, and it's giving detective energy fr fr 🔍✨

✨ NAME ✨

cowident — identify a window managed by cow 🐄

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cowident

no flags, no args, no drama. she just runs. periodt 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

cowident shows properties about the selected window. like, the whole tea ☕ about whatever window you point at.

When invoked, cowident presents a fullscreen overlay with a crosshair cursor 🎯. You can select a window with the mouse — that's the whole vibe. point, click, get info, slay.

🎀 CANCELLATION 🎀

ngl sometimes you change your mind, and that's valid 💜. The targeting overlay can be dismissed without selecting a window by:

  • pressing Escape;
  • pressing the right or middle mouse button.

Also, the cow window itself can be closed by clicking on the main window with the mouse. bye bestie 👋🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole cow cinematic universe, iykyk 🐮👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org> — iconic behavior, no cap 💖

and that's the whole page!! version 0.3, dated 2026-09-07 — so if you're reading this, hi from the future, mwah 💋✨

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