The first stab at a new widget was actually fairly straight forward and
easy. I'm loving qtile extensibility. I repurposed the Net widget and
trimmed it down. It seems to work when I refresh my config but it doesn't
automatically update when new interfaces are added as I would have presumed.
Thoughts?
J--
On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 12:55:56 PM UTC-5, J A wrote:
>
> Sorry to spam the list. Still working my head around qtile development.
>
> I would like to use the NET widget to show IP address on my title bar. But
> instead of using something as mundane as eth0 I'd like to have it
> dynamically added for the tun0 interface so that when I connect It appears
> and when I disconnect it disappears.
>
> I've done this in python before with a library but not sure where to plug
> this into the qtile framework. I suppose that I could have an external
> custom vpn connect and disconnect command that calls into qtile to make the
> necessary changes. But I'd love it to be a bit more dynamic and passive.
>
> So, I was thinking of mimicking the background changer with feh that I
> have where I start up a new thread that polls every 5 minutes. If i did it
> this way I could do a search for the tun0 interface once a minute and if
> it's there add widget and if it isn't remove the widget.
>
> If anyone can point me to relevant examples or documentation that would be
> great.
>
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import netifaces
from libqtile.log_utils import logger
from libqtile.widget import base
from typing import Tuple
from math import log
class NetIP(base.ThreadedPollText):
"""Displays interface status and IPv4 address"""
orientations = base.ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL
defaults = [
('interface', None, 'List of interfaces or single NIC as string to monitor, \
None to displays all active NICs combined'),
('update_interval', 10, 'The update interval.'),
]
def __init__(self, **config):
base.ThreadedPollText.__init__(self, **config)
self.add_defaults(NetIP.defaults)
if not isinstance(self.interface, list):
if self.interface is None:
ifaces = netifaces.interfaces()
#no one cares about loopback
ifaces.remove('lo')
self.interface = ifaces
elif isinstance(self.interface, str):
self.interface = [self.interface]
else:
raise AttributeError("Invalid Argument passed: %s\nAllowed Types: List, String, None" % self.interface)
def poll(self):
ret_stat = []
try:
for intf in self.interface:
addr = netifaces.ifaddresses(intf)
#Unable to get IP address
if not addr:
ret_stat.append("{0} : X.X.X.X".format(intf))
continue
ip_addrs = [ip['addr'] for ip in addr[netifaces.AF_INET]]
ret_stat.append("{0} : {1}".format(intf, ",".join(ip_addrs)))
return " | ".join(ret_stat)
except Exception as excp:
logger.error('%s: Caught Exception:\n%s',
self.__class__.__name__, excp)
