Don’t process autostart when restarting (new parameter -a)

man/asciidoc.conf

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ template::[header-declarations]
 <refentrytitle>{mantitle}</refentrytitle>
 <manvolnum>{manvolnum}</manvolnum>
 <refmiscinfo class="source">i3</refmiscinfo>
-<refmiscinfo class="version">alpha</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class="version">beta</refmiscinfo>
 <refmiscinfo class="manual">i3 Manual</refmiscinfo>
 </refmeta>
 <refnamediv>

man/i3.man

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 i3(1)
 =====
 Michael Stapelberg <michael+i3@stapelberg.de>
-v3.alpha-bf1, May 2009
+v3.beta, May 2009
 
 == NAME
 
@@ -9,7 +9,15 @@ i3 - an improved dynamic, tiling window manager
 
 == SYNOPSIS
 
-i3 [-c configfile]
+i3 [-c configfile] [-a]
+
+== OPTIONS
+
+-c::
+Specifies an alternate configuration file path
+
+-a::
+Disables autostart.
 
 == DESCRIPTION
 

src/commands.c

@@ -731,6 +731,29 @@ static void travel_focus_stack(xcb_connection_t *conn, const char *arguments) {
         }
 }
 
+/*
+ * Goes through the list of arguments (for exec()) and checks if the given argument
+ * is present. If not, it copies the arguments (because we cannot realloc it) and
+ * appends the given argument.
+ *
+ */
+static char **append_argument(char **original, char *argument) {
+        int num_args;
+        for (num_args = 0; original[num_args] != NULL; num_args++) {
+                LOG("original argument: \"%s\"\n", original[num_args]);
+                /* If the argument is already present we return the original pointer */
+                if (strcmp(original[num_args], argument) == 0)
+                        return original;
+        }
+        /* Copy the original array */
+        char **result = smalloc((num_args+2) * sizeof(char*));
+        memcpy(result, original, num_args * sizeof(char*));
+        result[num_args] = argument;
+        result[num_args+1] = NULL;
+
+        return result;
+}
+
 /*
  * Parses a command, see file CMDMODE for more information
  *
@@ -763,6 +786,9 @@ void parse_command(xcb_connection_t *conn, const char *command) {
         /* Is it <restart>? Then restart in place. */
         if (STARTS_WITH(command, "restart")) {
                 LOG("restarting \"%s\"...\n", start_argv[0]);
+                /* make sure -a is in the argument list or append it */
+                start_argv = append_argument(start_argv, "-a");
+
                 execvp(start_argv[0], start_argv);
                 /* not reached */
         }

src/mainx.c

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ int num_screens = 0;
 int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *env[]) {
         int i, screens, opt;
         char *override_configpath = NULL;
+        bool autostart = true;
         xcb_connection_t *conn;
         xcb_property_handlers_t prophs;
         xcb_window_t root;
@@ -85,8 +86,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *env[]) {
 
         start_argv = argv;
 
-        while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "c:v")) != -1) {
+        while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "c:va")) != -1) {
                 switch (opt) {
+                        case 'a':
+                                LOG("Autostart disabled using -a\n");
+                                autostart = false;
+                                break;
                         case 'c':
                                 override_configpath = sstrdup(optarg);
                                 break;
@@ -270,10 +275,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *env[]) {
 
         /* Autostarting exec-lines */
         struct Autostart *exec;
+        if (autostart) {
                 TAILQ_FOREACH(exec, &autostarts, autostarts) {
                         LOG("auto-starting %s\n", exec->command);
                         start_application(exec->command);
                 }
+        }
 
         /* check for Xinerama */
         LOG("Checking for Xinerama...\n");