How to call a custom function with a keybinding? #2213

sirakai-pc · 2021-02-12T16:59:26Z

sirakai-pc
Feb 12, 2021

Issue description

I have this function

def togglexscreensaver(switch):
    if(switch):
        qtile.cmd_spawn('pkill disablexscreens'), #kill by pkill(killing all pids by this pattern)
    else:
        #subprocess.call([home+'/.bin/disablexscreensaver']),
        qtile.cmd_spawn("bash "+home+'/.bin/disablexscreensaver'),
    switch=not(switch),

switch is a global bool var.
This function is called trough:

    Key([mod], "F7", togglexscreensaver(xscreenswitch)),
#   Key([mod], "F7", lazy.function(togglexscreensaver(xscreenswitch))),

Which doesn't seem to work. Is there a simple and official way to do this? Because I didn't find any in the documentation.

Qtile version

0.16.2.dev210+gd68819e6

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elParaguayo · 2021-02-13T13:09:21Z

elParaguayo
Feb 13, 2021
Maintainer

Can you be more specific. What does "doesn't seem to work" mean?

What's xscreenswitch? If it's the global variable that you mentioned then surely there's no need to pass it as an argument.

Are you seeing any error messages in your log file?

You should be using the lazy.function way of doing this. The syntax is lazy.function(function, *args, **kwargs) so, in your case, you'd write lazy.function(togglexscreensaver, xscreenswitch).

However, you should note that this will pass the qtile object as the first argument so your function needs to expect that as well.

I can write something in the docs for this as I agree it's not currently included (EDIT: see #2214).

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