man ionflux (Commandes) - remote control ion3
NAME
ionflux - remote control ion3
SYNOPSIS
ionflux [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the ionflux command.
ionflux is a program to send Lua-code to the ion3(1) window manager and can remote control it that way. The return value of evaluated expressions are printed to standard output, error messages go to standard error output.
mod_ionflux has to be loaded in Ion in order for ionflux to work.
OPTIONS
If no options are given, ionflux reads code from standard input.
- -e code
- executes the Lua code given by code.
EXAMPLE
- ionflux -e 'ioncore.restart()'
- remotely starts ion3
- ionflux -e 'return ioncore.version()'
- prints the version of ion3 in use
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
ionflux and mod_ionflux are written by Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@iki.fi>.
This manual page was written by Rene van Bevern <rvb@pro-linux.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).