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| author | Ingo Bürk <admin@airblader.de> | 2021-11-18 22:31:35 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-11-18 22:31:35 +0100 |
| commit | 52c831ca22753e351de921233001ed65ba498ef6 (patch) | |
| tree | ae16d3fb610328a1e2e56c9d7604a0c2e7a4abc6 /docs | |
| parent | b7056a82f44378c893e263939484a476b556f753 (diff) | |
| parent | 220144361adf02658686121e2ffaed764c1fc20f (diff) | |
| download | i3-52c831ca22753e351de921233001ed65ba498ef6.tar.gz i3-52c831ca22753e351de921233001ed65ba498ef6.zip | |
Merge pull request #4651 from orestisfl/docs-ipc-socket
docs: Make more clear that an IPC socket is always created
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/userguide | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/userguide b/docs/userguide index 264f6201..a05f12d3 100644 --- a/docs/userguide +++ b/docs/userguide @@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ 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 |