swww-clear-cache(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, this is swww-clear-cache — and yep, we’re in the General Commands Manual. she’s the little cleanup command for swww’s cache. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

run it like this, fr fr:

swww clear-cache

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — print help; the page specifically says Print help (see a summary with '-h').

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this command deletes the swww cache directory. periodt. 🗑️✨

the cache lives at $XDG_CACHE_HOME/swww or $HOME/.cache/swww if $XDG_CACHE_HOME does not exist. for each monitor, there will be a file in those locations corresponding to the current image/animation being displayed. iykyk. 🖥️🦋

also, the cache keeps preprocessed versions of gifs. so if you load a large gif, you would have to pay the price for its processing the first time. 😭💸

⚠️ note bestie: swww will automatically delete any preprocessed animation created with a previous version of swww from the cache. no cap.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• swww-img(1) — go say hi to the image command too, bestie 🫶

💖 that’s the whole page — source/version: swww-clear-cache(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 2024-05-05. ✨