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IPC interface (interprocess communication)
==========================================
Michael Stapelberg <michael+i3@stapelberg.de>
March 2010
October 2011
This document describes how to interface with i3 from a separate process. This
is useful for example to remote-control i3 (to write test cases for example) or
@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ 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.
PID of i3. 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.
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use IO::Socket::UNIX;
my $sock = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(Peer => '/tmp/i3-ipc.sock');
chomp(my $path = qx(i3 --get-socketpath));
my $sock = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(Peer => $path);
-------------------------------------------------------------
== Sending messages to i3