How come this would only be the case for cal? I can open htop or calcurse
no problem but not cal...
The snippet that you sent doesn't seem to do anything on my machine
On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 at 20:34:39 UTC Tycho Andersen wrote:
> 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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