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π NAME π
/win β the Profanity /win command, bestie. Yes it's a real one. It's giving "I just want to be in the right window" energy and honestly? Same.
This page lives in the Profanity XMPP client manual, section 1. Welcome to it. π«Ά
πΈ DESCRIPTION πΈ
Move to the specified window.
That's it. That's the whole vibe. You point, it goes. navigation, but make it iconic. β¨
π SYNOPSIS π
/win console
/win <num>
/win <barejid>
/win <nick>
/win <roomjid>
/win <roomoccupantjid>
/win xmlconsole
/win <plugin>
Eight ways to get where you're going. Pick your fighter. π
π¦ ARGUMENTS π¦
consoleβ Focus the Console window. Like, the main one. Home base. π<num>β Focus specified window number. You know the number, it knows you. Just say it out loud and it happens.<barejid>β Focus chat window with contact by JID if open. Key words: if open. No window, no move. That's the whole deal, no cap.<nick>β Focus chat window with contact by nickname if open. Again β only if it's already open, bestie. π<roomjid>β Focus chat room window with roomjid if open. Same rule, different room. It's giving consistency. π<roomoccupantjid>β Focus private chat roomoccupantjid if open. Yes, that's a whole mouthful, but it does exactly what it says.xmlconsoleβ Focus the XML Console window if open. The forbidden little XML window. You either know or you don't. iykyk. π₯<plugin>β Focus the plugin window. Shoutout to the plugin devs out there, you're carrying. π§
Heads up bestie: every one of those "if open" ones is literally conditional. If the window isn't open, nothing happens. Not a bug, just how she runs. π
β EXAMPLES β
Hop into the Console, simple as:
/win console
Window number 4? Bet:
/win 4
Pull up a contact by their JID:
/win odin@valhalla.edda
Or just by nickname, casual:
/win Eddie
Room vibes:
/win bigroom@conference.chat.org
Specific occupant in that room:
/win bigroom@conference.chat.org/thor
And the plugin window, for the extra ones:
/win wikipedia
See? Not scary at all. You ate. π β¨
Sign-off time, babes π β this whole page is from the Profanity XMPP client manual, version 0.18.2, and it was dated 2026-06-08. So like, remember that date, because it's canon. bye bestie, go move some windows π
π¦ where this page comes from
- ubuntu stonking: profanity 0.18.2-1 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later WITH OpenSSL exception
- ubuntu stonking: profanity-light 0.18.2-1 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later WITH OpenSSL exception
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms