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docs/ipc: update socket path section

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Michael Stapelberg 2011-07-24 14:39:15 +02:00
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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, no ipc-socket path is
specified and thus no socket is created. Alternatively you can set the
environment-variable +I3SOCK+. Setting a path in the configfile will override
+I3SOCK+.
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.
+i3-msg+ and +i3-input+ will use +I3SOCK+ to connect to i3, unless -s is passed.
If neither is given, they will default to +/tmp/i3-ipc.sock+.
All i3 utilities, like +i3-msg+ and +i3-input+ will read the +I3_SOCKET_PATH+
X11 property, stored on the X11 root window.
== Establishing a connection