awww-pause(1) General Commands Manual awww-pause(1)

awww-pause

awww pause

-a,--all

Send this command to all active awww-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: awww pause -n <namespace1> -n <namespace 2>.

This affects the name of the awww-daemon socket we will use to communicate with. Specifically, our socket name is ${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}-awww-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')

Toggles the pause state of the daemon. A animating gif will become frozen on the last rendered frame until the command is run again.

Note that this will only pause the animation rendering of the daemon. It will still respond to awww client commands.

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2026-03-24