Do I have to close this post or mark it as solved as we have to so in the
arch Linux forum ?
On Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 1:26:31 AM UTC+5:30 Piyush Chaudhary wrote:
> Got it. Thanks Everyone for all your help.
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 1:18:33 AM UTC+5:30 Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:00:35PM -0700, Piyush Chaudhary wrote:
>> >what do these parameters indicate here like "bash", "-c" ?
>> >Key([], "XF86AudioMute", lazy.spawn(["bash", "-c", "pactl set-sink-mute
>> 0
>> >toggle && /home/Odd/.config/qtile/dunst_volume_monitor.sh"])),
>>
>> bash is a shell and -c is a option to bash to run commands inside the
>> bash
>> shell.
>> I recommend reading "man bash" and check out the option "-c" if you want
>> to know
>> more.
>>
>>
>> >and how the above function call is different from the this one:
>> >Key([], "XF86AudioMute", lazy.spawn("pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle &&
>> >/home/Odd/.config/qtile/dunst_volume_monitor.sh", shell=True)),
>>
>> When you use shell=True Qtile add the "bash -c" for you.
>> (to be technically correct "shell=True" uses "sh -c" and not "bash -c",
>> but
>> for you in this case the result is the same)
>>
>>
>> >is the spawn function overloaded.
>>
>> I wouldn't say that, but Linux have many ways to do the same thing.
>> So which of them you use is up to you, both work and in the end they do
>> the
>> same thing.
>>
>> --
>> Kai Stian
>>
>
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