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 The method of choice for IPC in our case is a unix socket because it has very
 little overhead on both sides and is usually available without headaches in
 most languages. In the default configuration file, the ipc-socket gets created
-in +/tmp/i3-%u/ipc-socket.%p+ where +%u+ is your UNIX username and +%p+ is the
-PID of i3. You can get the socketpath from i3 by calling +i3 --get-socketpath+.
+in +/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
+filename character set (see mkdtemp(3)). You can get the socketpath from i3 by
+calling +i3 --get-socketpath+.
 
 All i3 utilities, like +i3-msg+ and +i3-input+ will read the +I3_SOCKET_PATH+
 X11 property, stored on the X11 root window.