i3-input(1) - Linux man page

Name

i3-input - interactively take a command for i3 window manager

Synopsis

i3-input [-s <socket>] [-p <prefix>] [-l <limit>] [-P <prompt>] [-f <font>] [-v]

Description

i3-input is a tool to take commands (or parts of a command) composed by the user, and send it/them to i3. This is useful, for example, for the mark/goto command.

Example

i3-input -p 'mark ' -l 1 -P 'Mark: '

Environment

I3SOCK

If no ipc-socket is specified on the commandline, this variable is used to determine the path, at wich the unix domain socket is expected, on which to connect to i3.

See Also

i3(1)

Author

Michael Stapelberg and contributors