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).