And you're certain that's not caused by your changes? If not, how about you 
open a PR?
(When doing certain things in the main thread, it freezes up. It's pretty 
easy to get there.)

On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 14:19:36 UTC+1 elParaguayo wrote:

> Thanks. I guess there's something wrong with my setup then as that doesn't 
> work for me. Process is still spawning in the background.
>
> The system also gets stuck when the update check is being run (hadn't 
> noticed the default 60 second interval).
>
> On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 12:59, tcld <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm doing this:
>>
>>         widget.CheckUpdates(distro='Arch_checkupdates', 
>> display_format='Updates: {updates}',
>>                             execute='alacritty --title "updates" 
>> --command ' + home + '/.config/qtile/do_update.sh',
>>                             update_interval=900),
>> With the script being called containg this code:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> echo "Installing updates..."
>> sudo pacman -Syyu
>> read -n 1 -p "Press any key to quit..."
>>
>> I'll give the widget code another look, since it might teach me something 
>> about threads in Python. :)
>>
>> On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 12:42:22 UTC+1 elParaguayo wrote:
>>
>>> I'm drawing a complete blank here as I can't get the widget to spawn the 
>>> update process in a visible terminal. I've tried using kitty as per 
>>> Justine's original post to see if the issue was with me using alacritty but 
>>> that's not working either.
>>>
>>> The process spawns in the background and makes qtile unresponsive. I 
>>> have to switch to a different TTY to kill the process to unlock qtile.
>>>
>>> I'd be *fairly *optimistic that the changes I've made would work but 
>>> it's impossible for me to test.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 10:16, elParaguayo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> May have been over-confident!
>>>>
>>>> I've cloned it but I can't actually get the widget to create a terminal 
>>>> to run the update command. The window doesn't display so it's just trying 
>>>> to run in the background (my execute command calls alacritty and the 
>>>> update 
>>>> command).
>>>>
>>>> Need to understand what the issue here is before I can test.
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 10:01:04 UTC tcld wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Then please go for it. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 10:57:56 UTC+1 elParaguayo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a pretty simple edit to the code, I think. I don't currently 
>>>>>> have the repository cloned because I'm running the version from the Arch 
>>>>>> repos but I'm happy to clone and make a pull request for this. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll need to run against the 0.16.1 tag rather than the latest commit 
>>>>>> but assume that's ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 09:04, tcld <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have come across this as well. At the moment the widget updates in 
>>>>>>> predefined intervals. So if you wait a "little" (mine updates every 15 
>>>>>>> minutes), the display will be changed accordingly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll have a look at the code, maybe the update can be triggered 
>>>>>>> after the "execute"-command is finished.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday, 5 November 2020 at 22:47:53 UTC+1 Justine Smithies 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for your reply. A code modification was what I was thinking 
>>>>>>>> but wondered if I could avoid that. Possibly not though.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, 21:36 el Paraguayo, <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Looking at the code, the button press just runs the "execute" 
>>>>>>>>> command but doesn't trigger a refresh of the widget (see: 
>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/master/libqtile/widget/check_updates.py#L71
>>>>>>>>> ).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You could either modify the code in the widget to trigger a 
>>>>>>>>> refresh or write a shell script that runs your update command and 
>>>>>>>>> then 
>>>>>>>>> refreshes the widget, and use that shell script in your "execute" 
>>>>>>>>> field.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> However, I'm not sure how you can trigger the refresh from a shell 
>>>>>>>>> script but it feels like it should be possible! 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 11:08, Justine Smithies <
>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Wondering if anyone has an issue with widget.CheckUpdates. I'm 
>>>>>>>>>> using Arch with yay and have that set in the distro field and in the 
>>>>>>>>>> custom 
>>>>>>>>>> command I have checkuodates+aur which runs fine and shows updates. I 
>>>>>>>>>> have 
>>>>>>>>>> kitty -e yay -Syu in the execute field so when I click on the 
>>>>>>>>>> updates bar 
>>>>>>>>>> when there are some showing it opens the terminal and updates. The 
>>>>>>>>>> issue I 
>>>>>>>>>> have is that after this when the terminal window closes it still 
>>>>>>>>>> says the 
>>>>>>>>>> updates are available when I think it should re run the 
>>>>>>>>>> widget.CheckUpdates 
>>>>>>>>>> so it sees none are now available and clears the update widget.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> PS I'm loving Qtile and learning a new language at the same time 
>>>>>>>>>> after spending a long time jumping from KDE to xfce and back.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Justine
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