WINDOWCHEF(1)

📦 version 0.5.2, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 WINDOWCHEF(1) — the Windowchef Manual, bestie edition 🍓

okay so picture this: it's the WINDOWCHEF(1) page, from the Windowchef Manual, and it's literally about to change your whole tiling-adjacent life. sit down, grab a snack, we're doing this 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

windowchef — a stacking window cooker 👑 (yes, cooker, not manager, she's quirky like that)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

windowchef [-hv] [-c config_path]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. three flags, one iconic little binary 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so windowchef is a stacking window manager that — and this is the main character twist — does not handle keyboard or pointer inputs. nope. not her job. 🙈

she is controlled and configured by waitron. that's the whole dynamic. windowchef stacks the windows, waitron tells her what to do. iykyk 💅

at startup, windowchef runs a script located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/windowchef/windowchefrc (and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is usually ~/.config, in case you were about to ask 🫶). the path of the configuration file can be overridden with the -c flag. slay. ✨

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • -h — print usage. short, sweet, helpful. the bare minimum and she delivers 💀
  • -v — print version information. for when you gotta know exactly which windowchef you're dealing with 👑
  • -c config_path — load the script from config_path instead of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/windowchef/windowchefrc. your config, your rules, your era 🌈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? not me being personally victimized by a window manager. take it here, the windowchef issue tracker: https://github.com/tudurom/windowchef/issues — the devs wanna hear it, no cap 📬

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Tudor Roman <tudurom at gmail dot com> — icon, legend, the moment ✨

also!! the default color scheme that comes with windowchef is 5725 — https://github.com/dkeg/crayolo#5725 by dkeg. obsessed with her aesthetic tbh 🎀

okay bestie real talk: windowchef handles zero keyboard and pointer input on her own. everything goes through waitron. don't come for her, that's literally the design 💅

and that's the whole page!! 🌈 this edition of the Windowchef manual is dated April 2020, from the WINDOWCHEF(1) pages — mwah, go configure something gorgeous 💖🌷🫶

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