userguide: Make more clear that an IPC socket is always created

Follow-up from #4647
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Orestis Floros 2021-11-04 21:46:23 +01:00
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@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ i3 uses Unix sockets to provide an IPC interface. This allows third-party
programs to get information from i3, such as the current workspaces
(to display a workspace bar), and to control i3.
The IPC socket is enabled by default and will be created in
By default, an IPC socket will be created in
+$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/i3/ipc-socket.%p+ if the directory is available, falling back
to +/tmp/i3-%u.XXXXXX/ipc-socket.%p+, where +%u+ is your UNIX username, +%p+ is
the PID of i3 and XXXXXX is a string of random characters from the portable