awww(1)                     General Commands Manual                    awww(1)

NAME
       awww - An Answer to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes

SYNOPSIS
       awww <COMMAND>

COMMANDS
       clear
           Fills the specified outputs with the given color

       restore
           Restores the last displayed image on the specified outputs

       clear-cache
           Deletes the awww cache directory

       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
       awww is a wallpaper manager that lets you change what your monitors
       display as a background by controlling the awww-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 awww-daemon. That will set up the awww-
       daemon. Then, you can send images to be displayed with awww img. To
       kill the daemon, use awww kill.

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

FILES
       awww will create the following files in your system:
           o   A socket in ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}-awww-
               daemon.<specified
       namespace>.socket,  or
           /tmp/awww/${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}-awww-daemon.<specified
           namespace>.socket, if $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set.
           o   Cache files in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/awww or $HOME/.cache/awww 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
       awww-daemon(1) awww-clear(1) awww-img(1) awww-kill(1) awww-query(1)

                                  2026-03-24                           awww(1)