KILLW(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the KILLW(1) page from the General Commands Manual ✨ the command is killw, and it means kill windows — no cap, that’s literally the whole vibe 🪟💀💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

killw [-p] wid [...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

killw will destroy the window you pass as an argument, and all its children too 😭 it’s giving “close the whole family tree,” bestie 💥🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -p — kill the parent application of the window instead of the window itself. super useful when you need to terminate frozen applications — and yes, this will close all the windows belonging to the applications 💀🔥

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

killw acts on the X display specified by the DISPLAY variable 🌈 that’s the display it’s acting on, periodt ✨

mwah 💋 this iconic page is from wmutils, dated December 13, 2014, and it’s the KILLW(1) page — byeee bestie 🫶🎀💖