I have come across this as well. At the moment the widget updates in predefined intervals. So if you wait a "little" (mine updates every 15 minutes), the display will be changed accordingly.
I'll have a look at the code, maybe the update can be triggered after the "execute"-command is finished. On Thursday, 5 November 2020 at 22:47:53 UTC+1 Justine Smithies wrote: > Thanks for your reply. A code modification was what I was thinking but > wondered if I could avoid that. Possibly not though. > > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, 21:36 el Paraguayo, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Looking at the code, the button press just runs the "execute" command but >> doesn't trigger a refresh of the widget (see: >> https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/master/libqtile/widget/check_updates.py#L71 >> ). >> >> You could either modify the code in the widget to trigger a refresh or >> write a shell script that runs your update command and then refreshes the >> widget, and use that shell script in your "execute" field. >> >> However, I'm not sure how you can trigger the refresh from a shell script >> but it feels like it should be possible! >> >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 11:08, Justine Smithies <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Wondering if anyone has an issue with widget.CheckUpdates. I'm using >>> Arch with yay and have that set in the distro field and in the custom >>> command I have checkuodates+aur which runs fine and shows updates. I have >>> kitty -e yay -Syu in the execute field so when I click on the updates bar >>> when there are some showing it opens the terminal and updates. The issue I >>> have is that after this when the terminal window closes it still says the >>> updates are available when I think it should re run the widget.CheckUpdates >>> so it sees none are now available and clears the update widget. >>> >>> PS I'm loving Qtile and learning a new language at the same time after >>> spending a long time jumping from KDE to xfce and back. >>> >>> Justine >>> >>> -- >>> 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/CADrRWNY2O0NyYDo%2BkNy8%2BR6tYeBm%3DumcxUWbJ_wHdhC4G%2BtXpA%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/CADrRWNY2O0NyYDo%2BkNy8%2BR6tYeBm%3DumcxUWbJ_wHdhC4G%2BtXpA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> 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/CADPQLhDBoSnp2bXdoONex6SHkBXWxLnhqkOUmUJVDYuSgXpy_A%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/CADPQLhDBoSnp2bXdoONex6SHkBXWxLnhqkOUmUJVDYuSgXpy_A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/3fbe80ec-4fbe-482c-a0d2-048ebada2d65n%40googlegroups.com.
