apt widget not working because icon does not show in bar

[radiodee1]

Hi,

I've been using the apt-widget. It has gone back and forth between working and not working. Presently the version on the repository does not work. The icon for the widget does not appear. I changed line 362 to read ' return apt_widget ' when it formerly read ' return apt_widget_button '. Now the icon shows up on the bar. I don't know if this is the only change needed to make the widget work.

diff --git a/apt-widget/apt-widget.lua b/apt-widget/apt-widget.lua
index a28a42c..2a4c683 100644
--- a/apt-widget/apt-widget.lua
+++ b/apt-widget/apt-widget.lua
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ local function worker(user_args)
                end
        end)

-       return apt_widget_button
+       return apt_widget -- apt_widget_button
 end

 return setmetatable(apt_widget, {

[radiodee1]

Hi. The return statement has changed since the widget was originally written. Maybe you could look at one of the early commits? Somewhere along the line return apt_widget was changed to return apt_widget_button. I don't know exactly how or why. There may be versions where apt_widget_button works. The unfortunate thing is that you have to be running a debian based system to test this. I'm using Ubuntu 23.10, but I know that's not the most popular distro. I hope I'm being clear. Maybe look at 8929269

[streetturtle]

@radiodee1, could you please check if it works now?

[radiodee1]

Hi. It seems to work. The icon does show up in the bar. Thanks.