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swww — Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland. More information: <https://github.com/LGFae/swww#us

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How to use the swww command: Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland. More information: <https://github.com/LGFae/swww#usage>.

swww — Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland. More information: <https://github.com/LGFae/swww#usage>.

Set wallpaper:

swww img {{path/to/image}}

Set wallpaper to specified outputs:

swww img {{[-o|--outputs]}} {{output1,output2,...}} {{path/to/image}}

Restore last wallpaper:

swww restore

Kill daemon:

swww kill

Display output information:

swww query

Set wallpaper

swww img {{path/to/image}}

Set wallpaper to specified outputs

swww img {{[-o|--outputs]}} {{output1,output2,...}} {{path/to/image}}

Restore last wallpaper

swww restore

Kill daemon

swww kill

Display output information

swww query

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