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swww-daemon(1) General Commands Manual swww-daemon(1) NAME swww-daemon SYNOPSIS swww-daemon [OPTIONS] OPTIONS -f,--format <argb|abgr|rgb|bgr> Force the daemon to use a specific wl_shm format. By default, swww-daemon will use argb, because it is most widely supported. Generally speaking, formats with 3 channels will use 3/4 the memory of formats with 4 channels. Also, bgr formats are more efficient than rgb formats because we do not need to do an extra swap of the bytes when decoding the image (though the difference is unnoticiable). -l,--layer <background|bottom> Which layer to display the background in. Defaults to `background`. We do not accept layers `top` and `overlay` because those would make your desktoop unusable by simply putting an image on top of everything else. If there is ever a use case for these, we can re- consider it. -n,--namespace <namespace> Which wayland namespace to append to `swww-daemon`. The result namespace will the `swww-daemon<specified namespace>`. This also affects the name of the `swww-daemon` socket we will use to communicate with the `client`. Specifically, our socket name is ${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}-swww-daemon.<specified namespace>.socket. Some compositors can have several different wallpapers per output. This allows you to differentiate between them. Most users will probably not have to set anything in this option. --no-cache Don't search the cache for the last wallpaper for each output. Use- ful if you always want to select which image 'swww' loads manually using 'swww img' -q,--quiet Makes the daemon only log errors. -h, --help Print help (see a summary with '-h') -V, --version Print version DESCRIPTION The swww-daemon will run continuously, waiting for commands in ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/swww-${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}.socket (or /tmp/swww/swww-${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}.socket, if $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set). The daemon will take care of both creating and deleting that file when it is initialized or killed. SEE ALSO swww(1) 2025-11-01 swww-daemon(1)
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