i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:17:34 +0000How do you get a list of all available commands?https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3439/how-do-you-get-a-list-of-all-available-commands/There must be a better way than looking at the error message from `i3-msg foo`: ERROR: Your command: foo ERROR: ^^^ ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: <end>, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar' In the end a new command like `i3-msg help`, or `i3-msg --help` might provide this, with a short description of each one. There is a [list of commands](http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_list_of_commands) section in the userguide, but that is not compact enough for reference. (btw: `open` is only meant to be used by the test suite for example)Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:54:23 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3439/how-do-you-get-a-list-of-all-available-commands/Comment by Michael for <p>There must be a better way than looking at the error message from <code>i3-msg foo</code>:</p> <pre><code>ERROR: Your command: foo ERROR: ^^^ ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: &lt;end&gt;, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar' </code></pre> <p>In the end a new command like <code>i3-msg help</code>, or <code>i3-msg --help</code> might provide this, with a short description of each one.</p> <p>There is a <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_list_of_commands">list of commands</a> section in the userguide, but that is not compact enough for reference.</p> <p>(btw: <code>open</code> is only meant to be used by the test suite for example)</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3439/how-do-you-get-a-list-of-all-available-commands/?comment=3682#comment-3682Agreed. Documentation improvements are typically accepted.Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:17:34 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3439/how-do-you-get-a-list-of-all-available-commands/?comment=3682#comment-3682Comment by joepd for <p>There must be a better way than looking at the error message from <code>i3-msg foo</code>:</p> <pre><code>ERROR: Your command: foo ERROR: ^^^ ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: &lt;end&gt;, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar' </code></pre> <p>In the end a new command like <code>i3-msg help</code>, or <code>i3-msg --help</code> might provide this, with a short description of each one.</p> <p>There is a <a href="http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_list_of_commands">list of commands</a> section in the userguide, but that is not compact enough for reference.</p> <p>(btw: <code>open</code> is only meant to be used by the test suite for example)</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3439/how-do-you-get-a-list-of-all-available-commands/?comment=3539#comment-3539I guess the chances are pretty high that a patch will be accepted ;)Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:42:10 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3439/how-do-you-get-a-list-of-all-available-commands/?comment=3539#comment-3539