Chaining builtin commands and ! shell commands.

[dvogel]

I have a custom module providing a power menu with a suspend option. When the system resumes, the popup menu is still visible. I would like to make my on_click handler hide it before suspending. I see popup:close as a command. If I specify on_click: "popup:close" it does indeed close the popup. However I can't seem to chain commands together. The on_click documentation says this is a "oneshot" script and the oneshot script documentation says this is passed to sh -c but that seems to omit something about the translation of the builtin commands and the ! prefix because on_click: "popup:close; !systemctl suspend" does not execute either command.

[JakeStanger]

The built-in commands are special cases - it either looks for an exact match, passes it to the shell, or errors. It is an area I do want to address eventually but I don't have any plans currently.

What you can do in the meantime is use Ironbar's CLI instead and call that from the command. This does require your bars to be named,and you'll need to call it per bar:

ironbar bar DP-1 hide-popup

[dvogel]

Thank you for the workaround!

I was just noticing the mutual exclusive nature in the code for the custom module. And now I see how I misread the documentation. The custom module documents the on_click type specially as string [command] rather than as a script.

Also, thank you for making Ironbar. I've been finding it much more ergonomic than waybar!

[JakeStanger]

No probs, glad to help. It's the only case of the that string [command] format in the entire app, so easily confused. Will be glad when it's gone :p