swww-daemon(1)

💅 swww-daemon — like, the wallpaper daemon herself

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for swww-daemon, and no I'm not gonna make you read a boring header line first, we're jumping straight in 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

swww-daemon — the little background gremlin that actually makes your wallpapers happen 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

swww-daemon [-q|--quiet] [-f|--format <xrgb|xbgr|rgb|bgr>] [--no-cache]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. run it and she runs forever 🦋

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -f, --format <xrgb|xbgr|rgb|bgr> — forces the daemon to use one specific wl_shm format, no negotiating.

⚠️ IMPORTANT bestie, listen to me: make sure this is a value your compositor actually supports! swww-daemon picks the best format for itself automatically during initialization — this flag is only here for fallback, debug, and workaround purposes. it's giving last-resort, not first-choice 💀

• --no-cache — don't search the cache for the last wallpaper for each output. super useful if you always wanna pick which image swww loads manually, with swww img. main character energy: you choose, not the cache 🫶
• -q, --quiet — makes the daemon only log errors. that's it. silent mode. she's at peace 😌
• -h, --help — print help (see a summary with -h) 🌈
• -V, --version — print version ⭐

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so the swww-daemon will run continuously — like, forever, no cap — just waiting for commands in:

${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/swww-${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}.socket

or, if $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set, in:

/tmp/swww/swww-${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}.socket

and the daemon takes care of both creating and deleting that file when she's initialized or killed. she cleans up after herself, unlike some people 💅✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• swww-init(1) — go hang out with her too, iykyk 🧚

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that's the whole page bestie, go forth and wallpaper 💜

this iconic little page is from the General Commands Manual, dated 2024-05-05 — swww-daemon(1), periodt. 🌸💖