Great - and sorry, looks like I pasted some bits of the code twice in that email!
On Sunday, 28 March 2021 at 21:47:20 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Thank you that was exactly what I was looking for and worked a treat. ;) > > On Sunday, 28 March 2021 at 21:35:29 UTC+1 elParaguayo wrote: > >> OK so a couple of things here: >> >> 1) That $(cat...) syntax is really shell syntax so I don't think works in >> python. Even if it could, I'd recommend writing this in a more pythonic >> (sorry, hate that word) way. >> 2) You don't need notify-send as qtile has a notification utility >> >> So... this is untested but hopefully will get you on your way: >> >> from libqtile.utils import send_notification >> >> >> def right_clicked(): >> # Read your file and store contents in a variable >> with open("/tmp/network.tmp", "r") as tmpfile: >> tmp = tmpfile.read() >> >> # Send the notification - you could replace this with subprocess >> calling "notify-send" if you'd prefer! >> send_notification("Title here", tmp)from libqtile.utils import >> send_notification >> >> >> def right_click(): >> with open("/tmp/network.tmp", "r") as tmpfile: >> tmp = tmpfile.read() >> send_notification("Title here", tmp) >> >> >> Your mouse_callback could then just be "Button3": right_clicked >> >> >> Probably lots of bugs here but that's how I'd look to do it. >> >> On Sunday, 28 March 2021 at 21:16:58 UTC+1 Justine Smithies wrote: >> >>> I've created a widget which works fine but now I'm adding mouse >>> callbacks. Button1 works as expected for testing but button3 is driving me >>> made as that notify line works from the command line but in qtile it >>> literally echoes "$(cat /tmp/network.tmp)" via notify-send instead of the >>> output that i get doing the same in a terminal like below. >>> >>> notify-send "$(cat /tmp/network.tmp)"' >>> >>> The line in my config is >>> >>> widget.GenPollText(update_interval=1, **widget_defaults, func=lambda: >>> subprocess.check_output(os.path.expanduser("~/.local/bin/network.sh")).decode(), >>> >>> mouse_callbacks = {'Button1': lambda: qtile.cmd_spawn("dunstify 'Left'"), >>> 'Button3': lambda: qtile.cmd_spawn('notify-send "$(cat >>> /tmp/network.tmp)"')}), >>> >>> Someone please help i'm pulling my hair out lol >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/6f320554-f189-47a7-827c-c5c1035440a3n%40googlegroups.com.
