wayback-session(1)

💖 wayback-session — the manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay so bestie, this is wayback-session, a session launcher for Xwayback(1). yes that's the whole vibe. it launches your session. it's giving ✨ startx but for Xwayback ✨.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wayback-session -sesscmd sessioncmd args

like, that's the shape of it. one flag, one command, some args. slay.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so wayback-session is a session launcher that uses Xwayback(1). its behaviour is similiar to that of startx(1) — no cap, that's literally in the source, typos are iconic — and the same xinitrc files are used. 🫶

that's it. that's the job. it starts your session and lets you live your main character era.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

wayback-session optionally takes the command to launch a session. and if you don't specify a command? it will try to launch ~/.xinitrc. and if ~/.xinitrc is not found? it will launch /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. the fallback chain is real, bestie. 🔥

• -help — show help page. the "help me help me" button. 💀
• -sesscmd — path to session command. this is where you tell it what to actually run.
• -version, -showconfig — show wayback-session version. two flags, one job, they're twins. 👑

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🌈 ENVVARS 🌈

• XWAYBACK_PATH — path to Xwayback. that's where Xwayback lives, tell the session launcher where to find it. 🦋

for other supported environment variables, see Xwayback(1) (section ENVVARS). go read that one too, i'm not doing its homework for it.

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🔮 FUTURE DIRECTIONS 🔮

heads up, bestie: this command will be deprecated and replaced by xinit(1) in the future. 😭

so enjoy it while it's here. it's on its farewell tour. not me getting emotional about a session launcher.

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📜 LICENSE 📜

MIT — free to use, remix, and be obsessed with. periodt.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Xwayback(1), startx(1), Xserver(1), Xorg(1) — the whole friend group, go say hi.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this manual page is dated 2025-12-31 and it came from the General Commands Manual, so like, that's the source and version and date — consider yourself signed off on. 💜✨ bye mwah 🎀