Open ehula opened 9 months ago
I would suggest you to use the line exec = "uairctl listen";
in your polybar config and then create a user service for the 'main' uair instance using your init system. If you're using systemd you may use this service file.
[Unit]
Description=Uair
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/uair -q
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Alternatively, you can start the main instance when your window manager starts, but then the process is unsupervised and you can't start or stop it using your init system.
This is a great tool!
I am using it in my waybar, but I am having a problem. I would like to be able to kill waybar and still have uair running in the background, and when I start waybar, I would like to be able to connect to the running uair.
In waybar, if I use the following
exec
line:exec = "uair";
then when I kill waybar, uair also is killed. Makes sense.However, I tried this:
exec = "pgrep -x uair > /dev/null && uairctl listen || nohup uair &";
which I thought would do it, but not quite. When I kill waybar, uair is still running. That's great. I can see output from the terminal usinguairctl listen
. However, when I restart waybar, I see the output fromuairctl listen
for about a second, then it disappears from waybar.