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. 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