Qtile missing optional python modules

[Melkor333]

Issue description

The qtile derivation doesn't include optional modules like python-dbus, which is necessary for widgets like the notification-daemon, according to the official documentation.

There are also other missing modules which are not mentioned in the documentation, the full list would be:

• dbus
• xdg
• mpd
• pythonwifi
• iwlib
• dateutil
• keyring

Steps to reproduce

• Install qtile
• Start it with the parameter -l DEBUG (the easiest way when using sddm is opening an xterm session and starting qtile from there)
• it will log the following for every mentioned module (plus a traceback):

  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ' modulename'

I think the best would be to add those modules as optional dependencies since they are not necessary for it to work but for some of the features.

[gagbo]

Would that explain why the SysTray widget does not appear ? I'm kind of confused right now.

[Melkor333]

That's possible. If you start qtile from a console in debug mode you will see if errors appear. And it's probably because of that...

[gagbo]

I had only an error about not being able to create the dbus object and I wasn't too suspicious, but having qtile working fine on Fedora confirms that I need to add the dependencies somehow in NixOS

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[Melkor333]

@kamilchm FYI since you are the current maintainer of this package: I currently don't use qtile so I don't know if this is still an issue. It doesn't look like it's fixed to me, so I'll just leave this Issue open.

[steveej]

Running my config on 19aac2413ae2810a47850f165a592cbe0d06f744 requires me to add psutil to the pythonPath. Also as a an update to the OP here's a list of python packages that I could identify:

  qtile = self.nixpkgs-master.qtile.overrideAttrs(oldAttrs: {
    pythonPath = oldAttrs.pythonPath ++ (with self.python37Packages; [
      psutil
      dbus-python
      pyxdg
      mpd2
      # python-wifi
      # iwlib
      dateutil
      keyring
    ]);
  });

I couldn't identify the ones which are commented, however my config doesn't seem to rely on them anyway.

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I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[Tanish2002]

iwlib and pythonwifi keyring are in nixpkgs now, and other modules have already been added. Can we these three final packages to qtile?

[Tanish2002]

iwlib and pythonwifi keyring are in nixpkgs now, and other modules have already been added. Can we these three final packages to qtile?

Tagging qtile maintainers @arjan-s @kamilchm

[Infinidoge]

Took care of iwlib in #258510

[arjan-s]

What part of Qtile needs pythonwifi? I can see in the docs that the ImapWidget needs keyring, but I can't find anything about pythonwifi, and the WlanWidget works just fine without it.

[Tanish2002]

@arjan-s I couldn't find anything as well. I guess I just looked at this and said it. iwlib and keyring were the only missing modules