3 Michael Stapelberg <michael+i3@stapelberg.de>
8 i3-input - interactively take a command for i3 window manager
12 i3-input [-s <socket>] [-F <format>] [-l <limit>] [-P <prompt>] [-f <font>] [-v]
16 i3-input is a tool to take commands (or parts of a command) composed by
17 the user, and send it/them to i3. This is useful, for example, for the
20 You can press Escape to close i3-input without sending any commands.
25 Specify the path to the i3 IPC socket (it should not be necessary to use this
26 option, i3-input will figure out the path on its own).
29 Every occurence of "%s" in the <format> string is replaced by the user input,
30 and the result is sent to i3 as a command. Default value is "%s".
33 Set the maximum allowed length of the user input to <limit> characters.
34 i3-input will automatically issue the command when the user input reaches that
38 Display the <prompt> string in front of user input text field.
39 The prompt string is not included in the user input/command.
42 Use the specified X11 core font (use +xfontsel+ to chose a font).
45 Show version and exit.
49 Mark a container with a single character:
50 ------------------------------------------------
51 i3-input -F 'mark %s' -l 1 -P 'Mark: '
52 ------------------------------------------------
54 Go to the container marked with above example:
55 -----------------------------------------------------
56 i3-input -F '[con_mark="%s"] focus' -l 1 -P 'Go to: '
57 -----------------------------------------------------
63 i3-input handles the different sources of socket paths in the following order:
65 * I3SOCK environment variable
66 * I3SOCK gets overwritten by the -s parameter, if specified
67 * if neither are available, i3-input reads the socket path from the X11
68 property, which is the recommended way
69 * if everything fails, i3-input tries +/tmp/i3-ipc.sock+
71 The socket path is necessary to connect to i3 and actually issue the command.
79 Michael Stapelberg and contributors