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 !
