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| author | Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de> | 2012-12-05 17:47:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de> | 2012-12-05 17:49:54 +0100 |
| commit | 0a608d4af67fe59390f2e8931f61b664f48660db (patch) | |
| tree | 89a7577bdf57512f1ab2313af9f7eb8d483b5c37 /man | |
| parent | 0eeded8bc013857a5e8a2efbc20002a22502897e (diff) | |
make SIGUSR1 do nothing, so that killall -USR1 i3status will force an update
Sending SIGUSR1 will interrupt the nanosleep() and thus force a new
iteration of i3status’s output loop. The signal handler itself is empty.
Based on the question by ttjjss at
http://faq.i3wm.org/question/854/how-to-force-status-bar-update/
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/i3status.man | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/i3status.man b/man/i3status.man index c14d8d2..3f7a924 100644 --- a/man/i3status.man +++ b/man/i3status.man @@ -378,6 +378,12 @@ Note that if you want to use the JSON output format (with colors in i3bar), you need to use a slightly more complex wrapper script. There are examples in the contrib/ folder, see http://code.i3wm.org/i3status/tree/contrib +== SIGNALS + +When receiving +SIGUSR1+, i3status’s nanosleep() will be interrupted and thus +you will force an update. You can use killall -USR1 i3status to force an update +after changing the system volume, for example. + == SEE ALSO +strftime(3)+, +date(1)+, +glob(3)+, +dzen2(1)+, +xmobar(1)+ |