powerline-daemon(1)

powerline-daemon1

Daemon that improves powerline performance.

Usage

powerline-daemon [--quiet] [--socket=S] [--kill] [--foreground]
                 [--replace]

Overview

--quiet, -q

Without other options: do not complain about already running powerline-daemon instance. Will still exit with 1. With --kill and --replace: do not show any messages. With --foreground: ignored. Does not silence exceptions in any case.

--socket, -s S

Specify socket which will be used for connecting to daemon.

--kill, -k

Kill an already running instance.

--foreground, -f

Run in the foreground (don't daemonize).

--replace, -r

Replace an already running instance.

-h, --help

Display help and exit.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Author

Written by Kim Silkebækken, Nikolay Pavlov, Kovid Goyal and contributors. The glyphs in the font patcher are created by Fabrizio Schiavi.

Reporting bugs

Report powerline-daemon bugs to <https://github.com/powerline/powerline/issues>.

From powerline 2.8.4-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.