hidden(1)

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💖 hidden(1) — the manual, but make it group chat ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to hidden(1) — section 1 of the manual, the user commands girlies 🎀 — and honestly? this one is short, sweet, and completely iconic. let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

hidden — she lists your iconified windows. that's it. that's the whole job. lowkey queen behavior 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hidden [ -c ]

like. that's the whole thing. one optional flag. we love a low-maintenance icon 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so hidden goes and lists all the windows on an X server that have WM_STATE Iconic — iykyk, that means the ones you minimized/iconified 🪟✨ it's giving "where did all my windows go" but make it a command.

ngl it's not doing anything fancy, it's just telling you the truth about your window situation fr fr.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -c — prints a command suitable to get the window back again 🫶 so instead of just being like "yeah it's hidden bestie 😭" it hands you the actual command to un-hide it. main character energy honestly.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • $DISPLAY — hidden obeys it, periodt. wherever $DISPLAY points, that's the X server she's talking to. no cap 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Michael Cardell Widerkrantz <mc@hack.org> — the icon who made this happen 💖 give her a follow (do not actually, it's an email address, please be normal 🙈).

heads up bestie: this page doesn't promise anything about what happens if $DISPLAY isn't set — it just says hidden obeys the variable. so like, set it. respectfully. 💅

and that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 this was hidden(1), dated Mar 09, 2012 — a vintage classic, still serving ✨ mwah 💋

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