[Request]Force Shell script to run

[ericlovesmath]

With release of 1.3.0, I can test out shell scripts on spacebar.

The first thing I tried is to make a keyboard layout script, but then I realized it only updated every 5 seconds, causing massive delay.

It would be nice to have some function like spacebar -m config --force-update right_shell

Maybe this could be supported in the future?

[cmacrae]

Hey @ericlovesmath 👋 Thanks for the request.
At the moment, I'm taking a break from implementing features/fixes on spacebar as I'm in the middle of a complete rewrite.

The good news is that I've already implemented per module refresh timers in the new version. For example, here's the clock module redrawing every second:

That said, you don't need a --force-update flag to achieve what you want in this manner (calling a command to update the shell output more frequently as a work around). The shell outputs are refreshed on a 5 second timer, but also when they are set. So, as a hack, you can do something like this:

while sleep 1 ; do spacebar -m config left_shell_command "date" ; done

Hopefully this is a satisfactory workaround until the new version is released :)