MUFFIN(1)

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🎀 MUFFIN(1) — General Commands Manual 🎀

okay bestie, buckle up, we're reading a manual page and honestly? it's giving ✨iconic✨. this is the man page for MUFFIN, living in the General Commands Manual section of your system.

🌸 NAME 🌸

MUFFIN — a Clutter based compositing GTK2 Window Manager 💅

like. that's the whole name line. short, sweet, ate.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

MUFFIN [--display=DISPLAY] [--replace] [--sm-client-id=ID]
[--sm-disable] [--sm-save-file=FILENAME] [--version] [--help]

this is the whole vibe, laid out. every flag below, exactly like this, no cap. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this manual page documents MUFFIN, briefly. that's literally what the original says, "briefly", and honestly we respect the brevity era.

MUFFIN is a minimal X window manager aimed at nontechnical users, and it's designed to integrate really well with the Cinnamon desktop. 💜

not me about to tell you the tea though: MUFFIN lacks some features that traditional UNIX users or other technical users might expect. the original page literally says these users "may want to investigate other available window managers for use with Cinnamon or standalone." so like… it's not for everyone, and it knows that. no drama, just honesty. 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

here's the full lineup, every single one, bestie. don't skip, there's no filler.

  • --display=DISPLAY — connect to the X display DISPLAY. like, which screen are we even talking to? this one. 👀
  • --replace — if a window manager is already running, MUFFIN replaces it. and the original page has a whole moment here: users are encouraged to change the Cinnamon window manager by running the new WM with the --replace or -replace option, and then subsequently saving the session. that's the whole ritual. do it in that order. 🎀
  • --sm-client-id=ID — specify a session management ID. you're telling it who you are in the session-management group chat. 🫶
  • --sm-disable — disable the session management. completely. no session management era for you today. 🚫
  • --sm-save-file=FILENAME — load a session from FILENAME. it's loading, not saving, despite the name. read it again. loading. 😭
  • --version — print the version number. that's it. that's the tweet. ⭐
  • -?, --help — show summary of options. your lil rescue flag when you forget everything above. 💖

🌈 CONFIGURATION 🌈

MUFFIN configuration can be found under Preferences->Windows and Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts on the menu-panel. yes, through the GUI, bestie, you don't have to touch a terminal for the basics.

and for the advanced stuff? advanced configuration can be achieved directly through gsettings. that's where the real ones live. 🔥

💀 SEE ALSO 💀

(go read it. it's the sibling page. family.) 👑

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

okay this one has lore and we're respecting it fully:

the original manual page was written by Thom May <thom@debian.org>. it was updated by Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (with permission to use by others), and then updated by Luke Morton and Philip O'Brien for inclusion in MUFFIN.

four whole humans carried this page across decades. that's main character energy from all of them. 🫶💜

and that's a wrap on MUFFIN(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 11 February 2006 — yeah, this page has been serving since 2006 and it still looks good. periodt. 💅✨🎀
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