swww-restore(1)

💖 swww-restore(1) 💖

okay so this is the swww-restore page from the General Commands Manual — welcome, bestie 🫶. It's short, it's useful, and it's about to make your outputs look cute again ✨.

🌸 NAME 🌸

• swww-restore — the restore command, obviously 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

swww restore

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -o, --outputs — a comma separated list of outputs to restore. Wanna know which outputs are currently being used? Run swww query, bestie 🔍. If it isn't set, all outputs will be restored — every single one, periodt.
• -h, --help — prints help (see a summary with '-h') ✨. No notes.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Restores the last displayed image on the specified outputs. That's the whole vibe 🖼️.

This can be used to split initialization (with swww init --no-daemon) and cache loading into different steps, in order to avoid race condition traps. Lowkey iconic for dodging those little timing gremlins 😭.

You can also use this command to restore the last displayed image when reconnecting a monitor. Monitor back? Image back. Periodt 🖥️✨.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• swww-clear-cache(1) — go check it out, bestie 🧚

mwah 💋 this page is swww-restore(1), dated 2024-05-05. now go restore something cute 🌈.