From 220144361adf02658686121e2ffaed764c1fc20f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Orestis Floros Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 21:46:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] userguide: Make more clear that an IPC socket is always created Follow-up from #4647 --- docs/userguide | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/userguide b/docs/userguide index f3162264..c683f105 100644 --- a/docs/userguide +++ b/docs/userguide @@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ i3 uses Unix sockets to provide an IPC interface. This allows third-party programs to get information from i3, such as the current workspaces (to display a workspace bar), and to control i3. -The IPC socket is enabled by default and will be created in +By default, an IPC socket will be created in +$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/i3/ipc-socket.%p+ if the directory is available, falling back to +/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