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@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ You must set the `output_format` to `i3bar` in the general section of your i3sta
## Installation (non Gentoo users)
Just clone the repository:
- $ git clone git@github.com:ultrabug/py3status.git .py3status
+ $ git clone git@github.com:ultrabug/py3status.git py3status
Get into the cloned directory:
- $ cd .py3status
+ $ cd py3status
And run the setup.py as root or via sudo:
@@ -58,9 +58,14 @@ You can see the help of py3status by issuing `py3status -h`:
-n INTERVAL polling interval in seconds (default 1 sec)
-t CACHE_TIMEOUT injection cache timeout in seconds (default 60 sec)
+## Control
+Just like i3status, you can force an update by sending a SIGUSR1 signal to py3status.
+
+ killall -USR1 py3status
+
## Update
Just pull on your local clone to get the latest py3status:
- $ cd .py3status
+ $ cd py3status
$ git pull
$ sudo python setup.py install