Media buttons not working about dotfiles HOT 33 CLOSED

Manually to force it appear and hard code it only control for spotify.

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Thanks once again. Haha i guess you managed to figure it out in the end.

This is kind of out of topic, but are you also encountering the eww bug where the log just keeps growing into insane amount of size? I currently have set rm -rf on each boot, but i imagine its unhealthy for the SSD/HDD.

Do you by any change know how to deactive the logs on eww?

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Same here, cant solve it :(

the log file, do you mean inside the .cache folder?

Im not sure it is or not, but for me, within this few day, that log file are empty and zero file size.

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Ah nice, it seems like you are not affected by the bug then :) Yeah that is the right file. For me it can reach like 30 GB in 1 day, and its a known bug

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i got modify the init file, but i dont think it is related.

You can try.
before

pkill eww
pkill myshell
eww daemon

after

pkill eww
pkill eww daemon
pkill myshell
eww daemon

before change/restart laptop, deleted all the .log file that related with eww

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You mean to just run all these commands in the terminal?
I just ran all of those commands, and restarted the computer, but still got the problem :/

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no, include in your init file. this file inside your ~/.config/eww/scripts/

deleted also your .log file that related with EWW

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Thanks for the clarification :)

Still doesnt solve the problem though. I hope the devs of eww fixes the bug soon... Seems like quite a few people have talked about it on their github

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Not sure, but i'm not facing eww .log file size increasing issue. :)

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type into a terminal

pkill myshell
~/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/myshell --eww

does any error popup?

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i got no popup error

as you can see from below image.

let me further explain.
If you pkill myshell, you only will get malfunction that related with function of .js script. (like apps_launcher not function)

.config/eww/scripts/myshell/myshell --eww, this one will reload the myshell and reload all the related directory in .cache/aylur

p/s : if you want to see myshell error, you can run gjs -m myshell in terminal (make sure dont pkill myshell). If you get no error by using gjs -m myshell, meaning that your .js script are fine and workable.

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I recommend pkilling myshell first so it won't complain about the notification daemon already running

# these are the same
~/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/myshell --eww
# and
cd ~/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/myshell
gjs -m myshell --eww

anyway I think I fixed the app launcher and I think this issue was also causing the media player to not show up

edit
I think if myshell is already running and you try to run it again nothing actually happens you just see the stdout of the process

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@Aylur Not sure how you make the media player show up, but here still cant see the media player show up on the eww bar

but thank you so much for your work, your eww bar are lovely.

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what is the output of eww get media when something is playing?

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@Aylur if i run the cli eww get media, the file for media.json are still empty as you can see from below image

as for the song result, you can see the the chinese song playing is appear on my conky at the right side

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@Aylur Not sure how is the .js structure design from you, but some how the file media.json never push into .cache and create it, it is different from what you done on others (ie: notification.json, network.json and etc)

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what is the output of this?

dbus-send --session \
  --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus \
  --type=method_call \
  --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus \
  org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep org.mpris.MediaPlayer2

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@Aylur Below is the output of the cli

dbus-send --session \
  --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus \
  --type=method_call \
  --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus \
  org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep org.mpris.MediaPlayer2

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is there no warning or error relating media.js if you do

~/.config/eww/scripts/init

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Below image show the init result.

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update .config/eww/scripts/myshell/apps.js first

git clone https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles.git
cp dotfiles/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/apps.js ~/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/apps.js

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Have to continue tomorrow, here already 2am, and thank you for your hard work

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@Aylur I already update the apps.js 2 hours ago after your post below.

I recommend pkilling myshell first so it won't complain about the notification daemon already running

# these are the same
~/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/myshell --eww
# and
cd ~/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/myshell
gjs -m myshell --eww

anyway I think I fixed the app launcher and I think this issue was also causing the media player to not show up

edit I think if myshell is already running and you try to run it again nothing actually happens you just see the stdout of the process

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@Aylur I noticed something as below might related with the media player not appear.

From the file ~/.config/eww/scripts/yuck/windows/vbar.yuck

line 26, 44, if remove the null, the media player will appear two icon next and previous. but not sure it is related or not.

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I pushed an update, can you try this again?

git clone https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles.git
cp dotfiles/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/apps.js ~/.config/eww/scripts/myshell/apps.js
~/.config/eww/scripts/init

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@Aylur New update is for the apps right? If yes, done.

but the media player still not appear.

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If there is no error or warning on myshell.js I have no idea what could be the problem.

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@Aylur After restart laptop and login, the media player wont appear, but if i manually re-run gjs -m myshell --eww before i start/fire up spotify, media player wont appear also. And by using this step, the media.json in .cache still empty.

if i restart laptop and login, the media player wont appear, but if i start spotify and re-run gjs -m myshell --eww, than the media player will appear, so what goes wrong here? And by using this step, the media.json in .cache will have all the info

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@Aylur Something to know, without open spotify, the media player will appear on the bar?

or

Need to open spotify first, than only the media player appear on the bar?

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by default if there is no media player, then the widget shouldn't be visible, it should only appear when there are 1 or more media players running

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@Aylur My current situation is after open spotify and manually trigger/run the command gjs -m myshell --eww one more time (even init already run) than only the media player visible.

So, where did my things goes wrong?

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Without any warnings or errors from the logs I can't help you

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@Aylur After your latest update for the async spawn, the right side icon appear faster and no need relogin to get the icon appear (sometime need it).

But for the media player automatically appear still not working, and of cause, there was no error, that why cant figure out why yours are possible to be automatically show out, and my was not? =.=

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