labwc(1) General Commands Manual labwc(1)

labwc - a wayland stacking compositor

labwc [options...]

Labwc is a wlroots-based stacking compositor for wayland.

It is light-weight and independent with a focus on simply stacking windows well and rendering some window decorations. Where practicable it uses clients for wall-paper, panels, screenshots and so on.

The compositor will exit or reload its configuration upon receiving SIGTERM and SIGHUP respectively. For example:

kill -s <signal> $LABWC_PID
killall -s <signal> labwc

Each running instance of labwc sets the environment variable `LABWC_PID` to its PID. This is useful for sending signals to a specific instance and is what the `--exit` and `--reconfigure` options use.

-c, --config <config-file>

Specify a config file with path

-C, --config-dir <config-directory>

Specify a config directory

-d, --debug

Enable full logging, including debug information

-e, --exit

Exit the compositor

-h, --help

Show help message and quit

-m, --merge-config

Merge user config/theme files in all XDG Base Directories

-r, --reconfigure

Reload the compositor configuration

-s, --startup <command>

Run command on startup

-v, --version

Show the version number and quit

-V, --verbose

Enable more verbose logging

labwc-config(5), labwc-theme(5), labwc-actions(5)

2024-04-01