Gnome Shell Extension - Execute multiple shell commands periodically with separate intervals and display the output in gnome top bar.
Home Page: https://raujonas.github.io/executor
Execute multiple shell commands periodically with separate intervals and display the output in gnome top bar.
Hi, you can add "41" to metadata ;)
Hey there,
this looks like a really nice plugin. Sadly when I run it under gnome 40 on nixos, I get no errors, but no messages appear anywhere in the status bar no matter what I do. Is this plugin tested and supposed to be working on gnome 40?
Please update to Gnome 42.
Somehow #53 returned.
Jan 06 19:58:38 mk gnome-shell[3098]: Unhandled promise rejection. To suppress this warning, add an error handler to your promise chain with .catch() or a try-catch block around your await expression. Stack trace of the failed promise:
execCommand@/home/mk/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:247:27
handleCurrentQueue@/home/mk/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:233:10
handleCurrentQueue/<@/home/mk/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:238:22
It looks like it only happens for commands that include the <executor.markup.true> string in output, whether or not any markup is actually used.
EDIT: After further fiddling, it also happens sometimes for commands that don't contain <executor.markup.true>. I can't tell anymore what exactly causes this to happen. But <executor.markup.true> causes it 100% of the time.
Move documentation to https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book
Please update the extension with support for Gnome 43
Thanks!
The bug occurs on Gnome 46. It did not occur on Gnome 45.
This is a very odd bug that's a bit hard to describe.
To reproduce:
... will replace it, or part of it.
The ... on the right side is the output from a command echo 'aa'.
The weird stuff starts happening when there are multiple commands.
It the multiple commands produce output of the same length, the last output will be truncated.
This is output from two echo 'new command' commands. The last one gets the ....
However, if the command outputs are of differing lengths, the longest will be truncated.
Here, there are two echo 'new command' commands, and one echo 'new commandaaaaaaaaaaaa' command. the longest is truncated.
You can also see that the truncation is not dependant on the length of the output itself. No matter how long or short it is, part of it will be cut off.
The truncation also doesn't depend on the position of the Executor panel on the right side of the top bar.
Also, and I don't know if it's related, in the logs there's this getting spammed:
Unhandled promise rejection. To suppress this warning, add an error handler to your promise chain with .catch() or a try-catch block around your await expression. Stack traceof the failed promise:
execCommand@file:///home/mk/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:239:22
handleCurrentQueue@file:///home/mk/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:223:14
checkQueue@file:///home/mk/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:209:18
checkQueue/<@file:///home/mk/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:213:26
@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/init.js:21:20
But it doesn't depend on the truncated commands being shown or not.
Multimonitor extension is really helpful to have several status areas available. I don't see any way to make use of that with executor unfortunately, it works on one monitor only. Any idea how to make use of more than one of them?
Hello!
For outputs that are wide but not too tall, would there be a way to “stack” the outputs?
I tried inserting a new line (\n) or line break (<br />) in the command output, but they are printed as text.
For example, the two lines below take quite a bit of horizontal space, and it would be nice if they could be printed on two lines
(i.e. line 1: weather / line 2: speedtest)
Thanks for this neat piece of software 👍
Hi,
thanks for the extension. I'd like to share my config for a SteelSeries Arctis 7 headset, which shows either 'Off' or "battery | chat-mix-dial level'. Since, to my best knowledge, there is no proper integration for this headset into Gnome, I used the HeadsetControl (https://github.com/Sapd/HeadsetControl) tool from @Sapd which works without issues.
Headset On:
Headset On (battery critical):
Headset Off:
The command is likt his:
echo "" | awk '{if (battery > 0) { printf icon" "; printf " "battery"%"; if(battery < 10) { printf "<executor.css.red>"} print " | "vcm} else { print icon, "Off<executor.css.gray>"} }' vcm="`headsetcontrol -c -m`" battery="`headsetcontrol -b -c`" icon="`echo -e '\U1f3a7'`"
And finally this is the custom.css I used:
.red {
color: red;
}
.white {
color: white;
}
.gray {
color: gray;
}
Maybe somebody else finds this useful.
Cheers
I am using executor to run a script that in some cases returns output, and in some cases just exits with status code 0. If the scripts output changes from a state in which it did give output to a state in which it just exits without output, executor does not update it's view.
As a workaround I made my script print an empty string using echo "". This seems to resolve the problem.
Using the latest version from Gnome Extensions (labeled 'version 1') on Ubuntu 20.04 on Gnome 3.36.3
Hello, as you may have noticed, it has stopped working in Gnome 46, thank you very much, we hope, as in every damn Gnome update, for your effort and we greatly appreciate it.
The extensions now supports translations, PRs for new languages or updates are very welcome! 😊
Currently supported:
English -> up to date ✔️
French -> up to date ✔️
German -> up to date ✔️
It would be really useful to be able to be able to run a custom command when clicking on one of the command outputs in the toolbar. For example, I have a script which shows if my office heater is on or off, if I could click the 'heater is on' text to launch a custom command then I could toggle it on/off straight from the shell.
From what I see it should be fairly easy to implement - another column in the extension prefs to declare the command to run and an onclick action (or whatever gnome-shell uses) for the item in the toolbar
First: Thank you Jonas. So practical and flexible.
If you choose to implement #60 first, I'm willing to provide a PR for this use case.
I'm using this in place of (discontinued) Beep Timer extension for short (20-30 sec) cycle of "Stay on track" alerts (not replacing, but in addition to Pomodoro).
Install mplayer, or any other player that can be started from shell.
Get the sounds you like. For example, download from https://github.com/gnome-pomodoro/gnome-pomodoro/tree/master/data/sounds or clone that repo:
mkdir GIT
cd GIT
git clone https://github.com/gnome-pomodoro/gnome-pomodoromplayer -ao pulse -nolirc -volume 60 GIT/gnome-pomodoro/data/sounds/bell.ogg > /dev/null.If you like fine grain sound volume control, use -ao pulse. That applies the given volume, multiplied (divided) by the overall System Volume (as shown in the standard GNOME Settings application).
To the contrary, -ao alsa takes the given volume, and resets the System Volume to that value!
Of course, if you use it at the same time as Pomodoro extension, you may want them to use different sounds.
Thank you for Executor. I confirm it runs on GNOME 45 (on current Manjaro x64 = stable Arch Linux).
Only once (today) I've received the below error. It was after I clicked at the Executor's icon on my panel. I couldn't reproduce it since then.
Error: gettext can only be called from extensions
Stack trace:
#lookupExtension@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensions/sharedInternals.js:219:19
#gettext@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensions/sharedInternals.js:224:48
getPreferencesWidget@file:///home/pkehl/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/prefs.js:15:16
fillPreferencesWindow@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensions/prefs.js:36:29
_loadPrefs@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:36:18
async*_init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:21:14
ExtensionPrefsDialog@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionPrefsDialog.js:12:4
OpenExtensionPrefsAsync@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:139:33
async*_handleMethodCall@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:373:35
_wrapJSObject/<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:408:34
_init/GLib.MainLoop.prototype.runAsync/</<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GLib.js:266:34
Installed from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2932/executor. GNOME reports the extension version as 25.
Please advise on any commands/steps for me to take, if needed.
When disabling Executor:
../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2736: instance '0x558f1fce2c30' has no handler with id '241808'
../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2736: instance '0x558f1fce2c30' has no handler with id '241848'
../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2736: instance '0x558f1fce2c30' has no handler with id '241863'
Executor stopped
Currently a row is only selected if one clicks the small gap between command entry and interval -> it should be selected if one clicks on one of these to elements
When I opened the configuration window for Executor, I modified, added and removed commands. I then clicked the "x" button to close the window. To my surprise, the configuration did not take effect.
This is what I expected to happen. I expected one of these two outcomes:
I also expected there to be one save button for the entire configuration, rather than having to save each configuration ("right", "center", "left") separately.
Hello! It will be excellent idea to add tooltip (over cursor) or popup menu with some info from script.
For example: I check Server status. And If it online, main text on toolbar is "ON" and on popup / tooltip - users online list.
p.s. By popup i mean program menu
p.s.2 - Sorry for my English
It would be absolutely fantastic if Executor could utilise panel on every monitor which provides https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel extension. I need more data available on panels, there is no enough space! :-)
home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel#2038 - might be related?
Using executor in combination with programs that have frequently-clicked elements near Gnome's top bar causes annoyance when misclicking on executor output, which opens the extension's settings window.
An example: tabs in a web browser with no title bar.
Half my top bar is executor output, so this happens often enough that it's a nuisance.
BTW, this extension is great, thank you for making/maintaining it.
Hi Jonas,
I'd be happy to create a PR for "documentation", but I don't know ho wit's generated, or what the formatting/generator technology is.
Please provide README.md with steps to re-generarate, and with basic links about how it's written or what it uses, so that people can contribute PR's.
Currently the specified index can break due to other symbols in the status bar. Should be checked from time to time like for e.g. every 10 seconds).
E.g. with extra button in command row
Clicking on any output string does not bring the settings up. Should it?
Wow to your original use case as at https://raujonas.github.io/executor/docs/use-cases/.
However, even though I consider myself an intermediate Linux user, it would take me a while to come up with this (especially if it's made efficient). Could you share your command, please?
Hi,
thank you for this very useful extension!
I have one little complain, which might be simple to solve: My systemd user log shows for each command executor executes the following message...
Unhandled promise rejection. To suppress this warning, add an error handler to your promise chain with .catch() or a try-catch block around your await expression. Stack trace of the failed promise:
setOutput@/home/simon/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:333:25
callback@/home/simon/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:323:14
execCommand/</<@/home/simon/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:272:26
Executor itself works quite well but as I fire off multiple commands every couple of minutes my systemd log is littered by this message.
Hence it would be very helpful if you could insert some kind of error handling in your code!
Thanks in advance!
Simon
Remove pasting the commands as a JSON string
Implement better GUI solution
I have a command that I have set to run every 600 seconds. It would be nice if I could click the widget where the output is displayed in order to force the command to be re-run.
Right now, I click on the widget, the settings open, I disable the widget and then re-enable it. That's how I force a refresh currently.
Any chances to change font colour of parts of the output? It would be very helpful to spot some anomalies.
Please add support for gnome v45
french.zip
It's my first try to create a french translation using poedit.
I modified the main fr.po (using example.txt) and I produced the corresponding new fr.mo. I had a message about unavailable current directory probably because I downloaded main extension git repository as a zip file and worked on the unzip content.
I renamed the new fr.mo produced file as [email protected] and I copied it in my ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES directory.
It works perfectly.
I enclosed the new fr.po and the new fr.mo renamed to [email protected]
I'm new in develping extension.It's hard to find an api of showing text.I need help.
Hi,
First of all thank a lot for your work, this extension is awesome.
My goal was a little bit different, I wanted to show alternatively some infos (ip, cpu load, ram etc...)
So I use your extension to do that and keep profit of the other features.
As explain here for using custom.css, it's better to put your scripts in ~/.config/executor...
This way your custom css will NOT be overwritten by extension updates
mkdir ~/.config/[email protected]/scripts
#! /bin/bash
ping -W 1 -4 -c 1 ifconfig.me > /dev/null 2>&1
if [[ "$?" == "0" ]]; then
WAN_IP=$(curl -s ifconfig.me)
else
WAN_IP="Not connected"
fi
# Auto detect lan interface based on the default route.
LAN_INTERFACE=$(ip route show default | awk '/default/ {print $5}')
# IPV4 Address
LAN_IP=$(ip a show dev $LAN_INTERFACE | grep --color=none inet | grep -v inet6 | awk '{ print $2; }' )
echo "LanIP: $LAN_IP WanIP: $WAN_IP" | tr '\n' ' '
~/.config/[email protected]/executor.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
WORKDIR=$(dirname $0)
INDEX_FILE="$WORKDIR/executor.index"
SCRIPTS_DIR="$WORKDIR/scripts"
for e in $(ls $SCRIPTS_DIR); do
if [ -x "$SCRIPTS_DIR/$e" ]; then
SCRIPTS_LIST=("${SCRIPTS_LIST[@]}" "$e")
fi
done
if [[ -f $INDEX_FILE ]]; then
source $INDEX_FILE
$SCRIPTS_DIR/${SCRIPTS_LIST[$INDEX]}
INDEX=$(( $INDEX + 1 ))
if [[ $INDEX = ${#SCRIPTS_LIST[@]} ]];
then INDEX=0
fi
echo "INDEX=$INDEX" > $INDEX_FILE
else
echo "INDEX=0" > $INDEX_FILE
fi
~/.config/[email protected]/executor.sh from executor config window.It's maybe not the optimal or beautiful way to do that but it work's. ;-)
I just wanted to share if someone need the same feature.
Edit:
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