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shanbakay-arch

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Registered: 2013-06-03

Posts: 2

[solved] How to reload i3bar/i3status after changing i3status config?

Hi all,

I know that i3status is started by i3 and piped into i3bar, but so far I have failed to find out how to tell i3 (or i3bar?) to reload i3status after I've made changes to .i3status.conf

I can certainly do this from the command line (with

i3status reload

) but I don't know how to tell i3/i3bar to do it. If I run

i3status reload | i3bar --bar_id=<id of current i3bar session>

i can see the output of the new configuration appended to the i3bar. <mod>+SHIFT+C (the key binding for reloading i3) doesn't work.

So is there a way of reloading the i3status configuration without rebooting?

Thanks.

Last edited by shanbakay-arch (2013-06-03 11:53:29)

totolotto

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2012-11-13

Posts: 114

Re: [solved] How to reload i3bar/i3status after changing i3status config?

$mod + Shift + r

shanbakay-arch

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Registered: 2013-06-03

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] How to reload i3bar/i3status after changing i3status config?

Yes! Thank you.

altschuler

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Registered: 2014-09-02

Posts: 4

Re: [solved] How to reload i3bar/i3status after changing i3status config?

And if for some reason i3 crashes but you have a terminal open, then you can do

i3-msg restart

Last edited by altschuler (2015-04-15 11:26:01)

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: [solved] How to reload i3bar/i3status after changing i3status config?

Read the i3 User's Guide. If you have any questions about i3, they're probably answered there.

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