Hey Sean, Thanks for the prompt response! I hadn't upgraded for a long time, so I upgraded from 0.7.x. It's definitely possible that the changes in 0.8 are relevant.
On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 12:59:25 PM UTC-4, Sean Vig wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > Which version did you upgrade from? There have been some changes in spawn > behavior since 0.8.0, but I don't think much has changed since 0.9. > > Sean > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Evans <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I have been happily using Qtile for the last year or two, and I recently >> upgraded to 0.10. One of my previously valid key commands is now failing. >> >> # Screenshot >> Key([mod], "Insert", lazy.spawn("sleep 0.2; scrot -e 'mv $f >> /home/jonathan/Pictures/screenshots' -s")), >> >> >> This allowed me to select a region of the screen and screenshot it. The >> `sleep` section of the command was to deal with Qtile taking time to >> release control of the mouse to scrot. >> >> I have confirmed that the command works correctly when called directly >> from the shell. However, in the latest version of Qtile, the command fails, >> both with and without the sleep call. Has anyone experienced any similar >> problems? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jon >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
