From 9e865b34abd3ee7c94fad9f32b7ed4d6dd9c4941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: marco candrian Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:42:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] an emtpy line flushes data into awesome (in awesome-client) --- awesome-client.1.txt | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/awesome-client.1.txt b/awesome-client.1.txt index 82232a5c..bc051549 100644 --- a/awesome-client.1.txt +++ b/awesome-client.1.txt @@ -20,12 +20,17 @@ via a socket located in the users's HOME directory. USAGE ----- To determine which socket is to be used, it read the DISPLAY environment variable. -awesome-client read commands from standart input. The command format is: +awesome-client read commands from standard input. + +When you pipe multiple lines into awesome-client, an empty line will flush already +collected lines into awesome with an according immediate execution. + +The command format is: screen_number command argument For example, to change statusbar text on screen 0, you can do the following: - echo 0 statusbar_set_text Hello, world | awesome-client + echo 0 widget_tell Hello, world | awesome-client To view tag number 3 on screen 1: @@ -38,7 +43,7 @@ To zoom focused window on screen 0: SEE ALSO -------- -awesome(1) +awesome(1) awesomerc(1) AUTHORS -------