WINWATCH(1)

📦 version 0_git20260208, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🦋 winwatch(1) — monitor rio windows 🦋

💖 NAME 💖

winwatch — monitor rio windows. That's the whole vibe: it watches rio(1) windows for you, bestie ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

winwatch [ -e exclude ] [ -f font ] [ -n ] [ -s ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so winwatch displays the labels of all current rio(1) windows, and it refreshes that display every second 🕐✨ No cap, it just keeps the window-label tea fresh.

Right clicking a window's label unhides, raises, and gives focus to that window 👑🖱️ Typing q or DEL quits winwatch, periodt.

The flags are giving options, so here's the full set 🎀:

  • -e exclude — if this flag is given, windows matching the regular expression exclude are not shown 🙈
  • -f font — this one appears in the synopsis with a font argument, but the original page does not explain what it does, so I'm not inventing extra lore 🫶
  • -n — with this option, the label is defined as the window's name instead of its class 🏷️
  • -s — with this one, the labels are sorted by alphabet (case insensitive) instead of by order of appearance 🔤

winwatch is unicode aware 💜

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

Excluding winwatch and stats from being shown:

% winwatch -e '^(winwatch|stats)$'

🦋 SOURCE 🦋

/src/cmd/winwatch.c

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

rio(1), regexp(7).

And that's the page, bestie 🫶 It's from the General Commands Manual, and the footer is just WINWATCH(1) — there's literally no separate version or date printed down there, so I'm not making one up 💅

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