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swww-kill(1) General Commands Manual swww-kill(1)

NAME

swww-kill

SYNOPSIS

swww kill

OPTIONS

-a,--all

Send this command to all active `swww-daemon` namespaces.

-n,--namespace <namespace>

Which wayland namespace to send this command to.

You can specify this option multiple times to send commands to multiple namespaces at once: `swww kill -n <namespace1> -n <namespace 2>`.

This affects the name of the `swww-daemon` socket we will use to communicate with. 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.

-h, --help

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

DESCRIPTION

Kills the daemon. This is the recommended way of doing it, since we wait to make sure the socket file was deleted, thus confirming the daemon exited.

Note that sending SIGTERM to the daemon would work correctly, but sending SIGKILL would make daemon leave behind the socket file. This is not a big problem; it would only cause a warning to be printed next time the daemon is initialized.

SEE ALSO

swww-daemon(1)

2025-09-21