UUCTL(1) General Commands Manual UUCTL(1)

uuctl - Menu for controlling systemd user units.

uuctl [-ah] [menu] [menu args ...]

Utilizing one of dmenu-like apps, presents a menu of user units, then actions to be performed on the selected one.

Supported actions include standard systemctl actions (applicabilty may vary with different units): start, reload, restart, stop, kill, reset-failed, enable, disable, freeze, thaw, mask, unmask.

There are also custom actions: silence, unsilence. These can be used to modify unit's logging behavior by selectively suppressing stdout or stderr writing to journal.

If daemon reload action is detected to be needed, it would be suggested before unit selection.

Supported menu apps:

  • walker
  • fuzzel
  • wofi
  • rofi
  • tofi
  • bemenu
  • wmenu
  • dmenu

Menu app is autoselected, but can be specified manually as a single argument.

If more arguments are given, they are used as full menu command line, so a custom menu command not limited to the predefined list may be given. The last argument is expected to be a prompt option (-p or analogous).

-a|--all Show all units without filtering out uwsm's compositor services.
-h|--help Show help and exit

uwsm(1), systemctl(1)

2025-12-29