From 801b795b450045604626d4995dbc024f505a9c50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Stapelberg Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:52:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] userguide: document signal handling caveat affecting at least dash(1) fixes #1741 --- docs/userguide | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/userguide b/docs/userguide index 2c90c50d..5af5f915 100644 --- a/docs/userguide +++ b/docs/userguide @@ -1143,7 +1143,10 @@ right hand side of the bar. This is useful to display system information like your current IP address, battery status or date/time. The specified command will be passed to +sh -c+, so you can use globbing and -have to have correct quoting etc. +have to have correct quoting etc. Note that for signal handling, depending on +your shell (users of dash(1) are known to be affected), you have to use the +shell’s exec command so that signals are passed to your program, not to the +shell. *Syntax*: ------------------------ @@ -1154,6 +1157,9 @@ status_command ------------------------------------------------- bar { status_command i3status --config ~/.i3status.conf + + # For dash(1) users who want signal handling to work: + status_command exec ~/.bin/my_status_command } ------------------------------------------------- -- 2.39.5