WMNAME(1)

📦 version 49, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ WMNAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to wmname — she's a tiny little suckless-tools queen and she is literally here to print or set your window manager's name 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wmname [-v] [ WM_NAME ]

that's it. that's the whole thing. short and iconic, no cap ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, wmname prints or sets the window manager name property of the root window. think of it as hostname(1) but for your window manager instead of your network identity — same energy, different vibe, iykyk 💖

if you call it with no argument, she recovers the EWMH name and prints it out for you. free info, slay 🌈

now here's where she really eats: wmname is a nice little utility that fixes problems with JDK versions and other broken programs that are out here assuming you're running a reparenting window manager 😭 (they're wrong bestie, they're just wrong). so you run wmname and suddenly the vibes are correct again. main character problem-solving fr fr 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -v — feeds you wmname's version. that's the whole option. she's not complicated, she's just herself 💅

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

wmname uses DISPLAY to figure out which display she's supposed to act on. so if she's acting up, check where you're pointing her, bestie 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Homepage <http://www.suckless.org/> — go say hi to the suckless girlies 🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

wmname was written by Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@gmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). iconic behavior tbh 💖

no cap, that's genuinely the entire page. she's small, she's mighty, she fixes your JDK drama. periodt ✨🦋

okay and for the cute sign-off: this is version 0.1 from 2008-08-03, shipped under the suckless-tools umbrella — still serving looks after all these years, we love to see it 💅💖🎀

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