Merge pull request #2177 from dcoppa/next

[i3/i3] / man / i3-msg.man

diff --git a/man/i3-msg.man b/man/i3-msg.man
index 6b548d363bb01d5beea1c13835d35b76da429995..911fc995c47bd1b7acaddecaa428fe1d7b895118 100644 (file)
--- a/man/i3-msg.man
+++ b/man/i3-msg.man
@@ -9,7 +9,30 @@ i3-msg - send messages to i3 window manager
 
 == SYNOPSIS
 
-i3-msg [-t type] [message]
+i3-msg  [-q] [-v] [-h] [-s socket] [-t type] [message]
+
+== OPTIONS
+
+*-q, --quiet*::
+Only send ipc message and suppress the output of the response.
+
+*-v, --version*::
+Display version number and exit.
+
+*-h, --help*::
+Display a short help-message and exit.
+
+*-s, --socket* 'sock_path'::
+i3-msg will use the environment variable I3SOCK or the socket path
+given here. If both fail, it will try to get the socket information
+from the root window and then try /tmp/i3-ipc.sock before exiting
+with an error.
+
+*-t* 'type'::
+Send ipc message, see below.
+
+*message*::
+Send ipc message, see below.
 
 == IPC MESSAGE TYPES
 
@@ -24,7 +47,8 @@ workspaces.
 
 get_outputs::
 Gets the current outputs. The reply will be a JSON-encoded list of outputs (see
-the reply section).
+the reply section of docs/ipc, e.g. at
+http://i3wm.org/docs/ipc.html#_receiving_replies_from_i3).
 
 get_tree::
 Gets the layout tree. i3 uses a tree as data structure which includes every