POWERLINE-DAEMON(1)

💖 NAME 💖

hey bestie, welcome to POWERLINE-DAEMON(1) — the Powerline manual page for powerline-daemon, aka the daemon that improves powerline performance. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

          powerline-daemon [--quiet] [--socket=S] [--kill] [--foreground]
                           [--replace]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so powerline-daemon has a whole little flag lineup and every single one matters. no skips, no “we’ll come back to that later” — here’s the full tea:

• --quiet, -q — the “shhh” flag. With no other options: it won’t complain about an already running powerline-daemon instance, but it will still exit with 1. With --kill and --replace: it shows no messages at all. With --foreground: it’s ignored. And bestie, it does not silence exceptions in any case. periodt. 🤫
• --socket, -s S — tells it which socket S to use for connecting to the daemon. 💅
• --kill, -k — kill an already running instance. byeee 👋
• --foreground, -f — run in the foreground (don’t daemonize). no background sneakiness. ✨
• --replace, -r — replace an already running instance. out with the old, in with the new. 🔁
• -h, --help — display help and exit. the classic. 🫶

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Written by Kim Silkebækken, Nikolay Pavlov, Kovid Goyal and contributors. The glyphs in the font patcher are created by Fabrizio Schiavi. iconic. 👑

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💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

got a bug? Report powerline-daemon bugs to ‐ https://github.com/powerline/powerline/issues. don’t be shy. 🐛

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• powerline(1) — go read that one too, bestie. 🫶

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xoxo, this page is from the beta version dated Mar 11, 2025, and it’s literally POWERLINE-DAEMON(1) — bye bestie! 💅✨