gnome-service-client(1)

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version 51.1 · 6 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

💖 gnome-service-client(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for gnome-service-client — that's GNOME Service Client to you and me, and it's section 1 of the User Commands manual. grab a boba, this one's short and slay 🧋✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gnome-service-client [option ...] -- COMMAND

like, that's the whole vibe: some options, a literal -- to stop the option party, then the command. periodt.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — gnome-service-client gives you a way to spawn a Wayland client, and, if you want, it can optionally set a default window tag for all of that client's windows. every single one. the whole squad gets the same tag. 💅

and uh, it's not just gonna work anywhere, bestie — it requires a compositor that supports the org.gnome.Mutter.ServiceChannel D-Bus API. so like, GNOME Shell or GNOME Kiosk. if your compositor doesn't speak that D-Bus API, it's giving… nothing. 🫠

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --help, -h — shows you a help message and then dips. exit stage left. 🎀
  • --tag, -t — optionally specifies the tag to set for all windows of the client. yes, optionally. it's giving optional. if you don't use it, no tag for you (🎵 no tag, no tag 🎵). if you do use it, every window that client opens gets that tag. iconic. 👑

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

start the client "gnome-calculator" with no tag at all — bare, unbothered, moisturized:

gnome-service-client -- gnome-calculator

start the client "gnome-tour" with the tag "demo" — main character energy, tagged and thriving:

gnome-service-client -t demo -- gnome-tour

see that --? that's the little bodyguard between your options and your command. always respect the --. 🤝

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? first of all, my condolences 😭. the bug tracker can be reached by visiting the website <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues>.

real talk though, before you send a bug report: please verify that you have the latest version of gnome-shell. many bugs (major and minor) are fixed at each release, and if yours is out of date, the problem may already have been solved. like, don't be out here filing reports from three releases ago bestie, that's not the move 🙈 please check first.

👑 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 👑

for further information, visit the website <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/blob/main/README.md>. it's the README, it's free, it's right there. go read it. 📖✨

and that's the whole page!! 🎉 this was gnome-service-client(1) from the User Commands corner of the manual — no version or date drama on the tin, just the name and the number, cute and simple. now go tag some windows bestie, you got this 🫶💜

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