profanity-close(1)

profanity-close1

Usage

/close

/close <num>

/close <barejid>

/close <nick>

/close <roomjid>

/close <roomoccupantjid>

/close xmlconsole

/close all|read

Overview

Close windows. Passing no argument closes the current window.

Arguments

<num>

Close specified window number.

<barejid>

Close chat window with contact by JID if open.

<nick>

Close chat window with contact by nickname if open.

<roomjid>

Close chat room window with roomjid if open.

<roomoccupantjid>

Close private chat roomoccupantjid if open.

xmlconsole

Close the XML Console window if open.

all

Close all windows.

read

Close all windows that have no unread messages.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From profanity 1:0.19.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by profanity-gtk. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.