It's a pretty simple edit to the code, I think. I don't currently have the
repository cloned because I'm running the version from the Arch repos but
I'm happy to clone and make a pull request for this.

I'll need to run against the 0.16.1 tag rather than the latest commit but
assume that's ok.

On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 09:04, tcld <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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