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| author | Orestis Floros <orestisflo@gmail.com> | 2021-11-04 21:46:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Orestis Floros <orestisflo@gmail.com> | 2021-11-04 21:47:55 +0100 |
| commit | 220144361adf02658686121e2ffaed764c1fc20f (patch) | |
| tree | 95861baee234f3d17e5bdd115272f8f0562daea3 /docs | |
| parent | 3e0fc25b6b6ba92ed9e8acd4ba9ef64201b313ca (diff) | |
| download | i3-220144361adf02658686121e2ffaed764c1fc20f.tar.gz i3-220144361adf02658686121e2ffaed764c1fc20f.zip | |
userguide: Make more clear that an IPC socket is always created
Follow-up from #4647
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diff --git a/docs/userguide b/docs/userguide index f3162264..c683f105 100644 --- a/docs/userguide +++ b/docs/userguide @@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ i3 uses Unix sockets to provide an IPC interface. This allows third-party programs to get information from i3, such as the current workspaces (to display a workspace bar), and to control i3. -The IPC socket is enabled by default and will be created in +By default, an IPC socket will be created in +$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/i3/ipc-socket.%p+ if the directory is available, falling back to +/tmp/i3-%u.XXXXXX/ipc-socket.%p+, where +%u+ is your UNIX username, +%p+ is the PID of i3 and XXXXXX is a string of random characters from the portable |