Well, you made my day. I'll also take a look at your createwidget function. It looks like a nice way to handle your widgets
Thanks ! Mathias 2015-02-17 17:21 GMT+01:00 Benoît Zugmeyer <ben...@zugmeyer.com>: > Hi Mathias, > > I have the same usecase. I spawn the terminal with something like "-e > ~/.config/awesome/bin/update" (see [0]). The script bin/update (see [1]): > > - launches the update (apt-get dist-upgrade in your case) > - updates the awesome widget so it displays the right count (0 if > everything goes right) > - waits for an input from the user (so the terminal stays open) > > [0] > https://github.com/BenoitZugmeyer/dotfiles/blob/290f33235d1ff7d0ebdb8e04aa3d505e6856ed2e/.config/awesome/rc.lua#L276 > [1] > https://github.com/BenoitZugmeyer/dotfiles/blob/290f33235d1ff7d0ebdb8e04aa3d505e6856ed2e/.config/awesome/bin/update > > > -- > Benoît Zugmeyer > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Mathias Brulatout < > mathias.brulat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm trying to change my awesome setup so that clicking on an icon will >> spawn a terminal (terminator) with the command "apt-get dist-upgrade" . I >> tried many things to get a nice widget tracking packages updates, but I'm >> stuck here. >> >> Basically, I have a textbox showing the amount of updates (and hovering >> it displays packages to update) after parsing the output of >> "apt-show-versions -u -b", so that's nice. >> >> I also have an imagebox, which spawns a terminal when I click it. I'd >> like to spawn a terminal and start the "apt-get dist-upgrade" command in >> this spawned terminal foreground (I already made the right changes in >> /etc/sudoers to use apt-get without sudo) so that I can watch the update >> process. After the command has returned, the temrinal should still be >> opened. >> The "-e" option doesn't seem to be the answer. >> >> Here is the imagebox snippet: >> >> apticon = wibox.widget.imagebox() >> apticon:set_image(beautiful.widget_apt) >> apticon:buttons(awful.util.table.join( >> awful.button({ }, 1, function () awful.util.spawn(terminal,false) end))) >> >> where terminal, as you might have guessed, refers to my terminal name >> (terminator) :) >> >> Thanks in advance ! >> >> >> > >
