Yay Polybar

A script that shows the total available updates for Arch Linux using yay. Includes optional click actions to display a notification of available updates and another to display a GUI list of available packages and trigger the update of those the user selects.

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Module

Package Update GUI

Dependencies

Requires yay.

Optional left and right click actions required:

• i3wm, window manager
• notify-send, broadcast notifcation
• zenity, display table for package selection
• termite, terminal to execute updates with output

Module

 [module/updates]
 type = custom/script
 exec = ~/code/yay-polybar/updates-arch-yay.sh
 interval = 600
 click-left = i3-msg exec ~/code/yay-polybar/notify-updates.sh
 click-right = i3-msg exec ~/code/yay-polybar/prompt-updates.sh

Notify Updates

Left clicking on the module will trigger a system notifcation with a list of package names for which there are currently updates available.

Prompt for Updates

Right clicking on the module will trigger the display of a table to allow the selection of which packages to upgrade, and automatically start their upgrade through yay.

i3 Configuration

Show package updates from Polybar in floating window

 for_window [instance="^package-update$" class="^Termite$"] floating enable, move position center