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 The -F option takes a format string. In this string, every occurence of %s is
21 replaced by the user input.
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26 i3-input -F 'mark %s' -l 1 -P 'Mark: '
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33 i3-input handles the different sources of socket paths in the following order:
35 * I3SOCK environment variable
36 * I3SOCK gets overwritten by the -s parameter, if specified
37 * if neither are available, i3-input reads the socket path from the X11
38 property, which is the recommended way
39 * if everything fails, i3-input tries +/tmp/i3-ipc.sock+
41 The socket path is necessary to connect to i3 and actually issue the command.
49 Michael Stapelberg and contributors