swww-init(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Hey bestie 💖 welcome to the swww-init(1) page — yep, that’s the manual name, from the General Commands Manual. And listen: this command is DEPRECATED 🫶. Still iconic for history reasons, but deprecated.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

swww init [--no-daemon] [--no-cache] [--format <xrgb|xbgr|rgb|bgr>]

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --no-daemon — Don’t fork the daemon. This keeps it running in the current terminal.

The only reason you’d do this is to see the daemon’s logs 👀. Note that in release builds we only log info, warnings, and errors, so you won’t be seeing much (ideally 💀). This is mostly useful for debugging and developing.

• --no-cache — Don’t load the cache during initialization (it still loads on monitor (re)connection).

If you want to always pass an image for swww to load, this option can help make the results some reliable: swww init --no-cache && swww img <some img> 🎀

• --format <xrgb|xbgr|rgb|bgr> — Force the daemon to use a specific wl_shm format.

⚠️ IMPORTANT: make sure this is a value your compositor actually supports! swww-daemon will automatically select the best format for itself during initialization; this is only here for fallback, debug, and workaround purposes.

• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with -h).

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Initializes the daemon. This used to be the recommended way of doing it, but that is no longer the case, bestie 😭. You should call swww-daemon directly instead. Periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

swww-daemon(1)

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That’s the whole page, bestie 🫶. Cute sign-off: this one is from the General Commands Manual, its manual name is swww-init(1), and it’s dated 2024-05-05. Mwah 💋✨