On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 12:29:48PM -0800, David Budzynski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm experimenting with mouse callbacks so I wanted to get calendar when I
> click on the clock widget. For some reason I cannot get cal to be opened.
> other commands that I tested it on like htop, plain terminal(alacritty),
> and calcurse seem to be working fine. I use this to get the callback:
>
> widget.Clock(
> format = '%b %d %A %H:%M:%S',
> mouse_callbacks = {"Button1": lambda: qtile.cmd_spawn("alacritty -e cal -3"
> )}
> )
>
> when I click on the clock it looks like alacritty opens for a split of a
> second and quickly disappears. Any reasons why I cannot get cal command to
> open?
It is probably working just fine: alacritty opens, cal runs, exits,
and then alacritty closes since the process `cal' exited.
Try the equivalent of "sh -c 'cal && sleep 200'".
Tycho
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