swww(1)

NAME
swww - A Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes

SYNOPSIS
swww <COMMAND>

COMMANDS

clear
    Fills the specified outputs with the given color

restore
    Restores the last displayed image on the specified outputs

clear-cache
    Fills the specified outputs with the given color

img
    Sends an image (or animated gif) for the daemon to display

kill
    Kills the daemon

query
    Asks the daemon to print output information (names and dimensions)

help [COMMAND]
    Print help or the help of the given command

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Print help (see a summary with '-h')

-V, --version
    Print version

DESCRIPTION
swww is a wallpaper manager that lets you change what your monitors display as a background by controlling the swww-daemon at runtime.

It supports animated gifs and putting different stuff in different monitors. I also did my best to make it as resource efficient as possible.

To start, begin by running swww-daemon. That will set up the swww-daemon. Then, you can send images to be displayed with swww img. To kill the daemon, use swww kill.

Note that swww only works in a compositor that implements the layer-shell protocol. Typically, wlr-roots based compositors.

FILES
swww will create the following files in your system:
    •   A socket in ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/swww-${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}.socket, or
/tmp/swww/swww-${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}.socket, if $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set.
    •   Cache files in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/swww or $HOME/.cache/swww if $XDG_CACHE_HOME does not exist. These are used to set the wallpaper to the previous image when a monitor is (re)connected or turned on.

SEE ALSO
swww-daemon(1) swww-clear(1) swww-img(1) swww-kill(1) swww-query(1)