WLOPM(1)

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💅 WLOPM — bestie's guide to Wayland output power management 💅

okay so. this is the wlopm page, from the General Commands Manual section (section 1, obvi). it's a tiny lil command but it does exactly one thing and it slays at it. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wlopm — Wayland output power management 🌙⚡

like... it turns your monitors on and off. that's the whole vibe. iconic behaviour honestly.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wlopm [-j] [--json] [--on output-name] [--off output-name]
      [--toggle output-name]

wlopm [-h] [--help]

wlopm [-v] [--version]

three whole moods. do the thing, get help, or get the version. pick your fighter 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

wlopm is a simple client implementing zwlr-output-power-management-v1. no cap, that's genuinely the entire personality. it talks to that protocol so you don't have to 💅

and here's the cute part: if you define no operations at all, wlopm will just list all outputs and their current power modes. it's giving "i'm not doing anything today, just observing" 😌 and honestly? valid.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — print help and dip. exit immediately, no notes 🙈
  • -v, --version — print version and exit. the receipts, bestie 📜✨
  • -j, --json — enable JSON formatting for listing outputs and for errors encountered while trying to set their power modes. yes, even the oopsies come out as JSON. so organized 💀
  • --on output-name — set the power mode of the output to on. wakey wakey 🌞
  • --off output-name — set the power mode of the output to off. nap time 😴
  • --toggle output-name — toggle the power mode of the output. chaos mode, flip the switch 🔄

🌈 OUTPUT NAMES 🌈

okay important tea ☕ — output names are compositor dependent. so like, don't come for me if your names look different than someone else's, every compositor names its babies differently. iykyk.

and here's the ✨ magic ✨: if instead of an output name you pass * as the parameter to an operation, wlopm will do the operation for all discovered outputs. one lil star and every single display obeys. main character energy fr fr 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Leon Henrik Plickat

give them their flowers 💐 periodt.

lowkey reminder bestie: names come from your compositor, and * hits everything, so double-check before you toggle a whole wall of monitors into the void 💀

and that's the page!! written by git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/wlopm, dated 2021-07-17 — go drink some water and power-cycle responsibly 💜✨

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