An other suggestion: Update indicator (waybar)

[taschenlampe]

Hi!
This may be just a personal wish, not sure if anyone else wants this: May I suggest to include an update widget to waybar . I have something like this:

  "custom/zypper": {
        "format": "{} ",
        "interval": 3600,
        "exec": "zypper lu | grep 'v |' | wc -l",
        "exec-if": "exit 0",
        "on-click": "exec alacritty -e sudo  zypper update ; pkill -SIGRTMIN+8 waybar",
        "signal": 8
    }

I must confess that I copied -and slighty adapted- the code from waybar's wiki...I am not 100% about this SIGTMIN+signal function...but heyho, it seems to do what it should do.

Cheers

[denisok]

ha, cool suggestion!. zypper dup probably and I will check about the signal.
waybar needs some love for sure, on my AMD laptop temps don't work as well.

Thanks! BTW there will be openSUSE conference, I have submitted a talk about openSUSEway, if you would like to participate - would be awesome :) maybe some feedback during the talk.

[taschenlampe]

Hi!
Sure thing, I'd like to listen to your talk. Though I cannot guarantee that my feedback (if I gave any ) , will make a lot of sense though :-D

[taschenlampe]

Using
"exec": "zypper lu -a | grep 'v | ' | wc -l"
could be an option too (though there is some issues with it, when you have several repos proposing the same packages. For me this is fine as I know (mas o menos) why I cannot upate all listed pakages)
An other issue is, that after updating the system waybar will wait (up to) 3600s until it refreshes the zypper/widget status...somehow the widget should reload itself after executing the command. I am not sure how to deal with it.

As I prefer to update only when a new release is available I wrote this little script to check if a new release is available:

   "custom/release": {
        "format": "{} ",
        "exec" : "/usr/bin/sh /home/me/test.sh",
        "interval": 3600,
        "exec-if": "exit 0",
        "on-click": "exec alacritty -e sudo  zypper update ; pkill -SIGRTMIN+8 waybar",
        "signal": 8
    },

test.sh -> https://paste2.org/tADAWNbs

Please note: I am not a coder, I guess this script will make people laugh that actually know how to code :-D