.TH "POWERLINE-DAEMON" "1" "October 2014" "Powerline" "Powerline manual" .SH "NAME" powerline-daemon \- Daemon to improve the performance of powerline .SH "SYNOPSIS" \fIpowerline\-daemon\fR [\-h] [\-\-quiet] [\-\-socket SOCKET] [\-\-kill | \fB\-\-foreground\fR | \fB\-\-replace]\fR .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP powerline\-daemon ensures only one Python instance of powerline is launched for prompts and statuslines. .SH "OPTIONS" .SS "optional arguments:" .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR show this help message and exit .TP \fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-q\fR 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. .TP \fB\-\-socket\fR SOCKET, \fB\-s\fR SOCKET Specify socket which will be used for connecting to daemon. .TP \fB\-\-kill\fR, \fB\-k\fR Kill an already running instance .TP \fB\-\-foreground\fR, \fB\-f\fR Run in the foreground (dont daemonize) .TP \fB\-\-replace\fR, \fB\-r\fR Replace an already running instance .SH "SEE ALSO" \fBpowerline\fR(1), \fBpowerline-config\fR(1), \fBpowerline-lint\fR(1) .SH "AUTHORS" Kim Silkebækken, Nikolay Pavlov, Kovid Goyal and contributors. The glyphs in the font patcher are created by Fabrizio Schiavi.