From 7728c35401cf53dc87832c9bb1b0bfe32fa1ed92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:21:35 +0200
Subject: correctly auto-detect the output format with zsh (Thanks mist)
---
src/auto_detect_format.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/auto_detect_format.c b/src/auto_detect_format.c
index 2df13f5..299614a 100644
--- a/src/auto_detect_format.c
+++ b/src/auto_detect_format.c
@@ -74,6 +74,19 @@ char *auto_detect_format() {
if (!parentname)
goto out;
+ /* Some shells, for example zsh, open a pipe in a way which will make the
+ * pipe target the parent process of i3status. If we detect that, we set
+ * the format and we are done. */
+ if (strcasecmp(parentname, "i3bar") == 0)
+ format = "none";
+ else if (strcasecmp(parentname, "dzen2") == 0)
+ format = "dzen2";
+ else if (strcasecmp(parentname, "xmobar") == 0)
+ format = "xmobar";
+
+ if (format)
+ goto out;
+
rewinddir(dir);
while ((entry = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
--
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