waybar module for Arch to show system updates available

Shows updates from official repositories and AUR packages.

Reason

Why not just exec checkupdates in custom waybar module?

• This module will provide relevant local information constantly and periodically update data from the network in backgroud. Direct "checkupdates" will only give you one of two things: updating the information with a long delay or having the module constantly active on the network.
• This module has 2 states which gives you the ability to display different icons depending on status.
• Waybar expects JSON in an infinite loop from modules. So we have this.
• See updates list in tooltip.
• NEW: Includes AUR packages updates (uses pacman -Qm + AUR API, no AUR helper required).

This small program will give you fast updates with less network usage. After you have installed all the updates, the module will immediately go into the Updated state. You don't need to send signals to waybar to update this module state.

How to use

• install binary waybar-module-pacman-updates to your PATH
• add to ~/.config/waybar/config

"custom/updates": {
    "format": "{} {icon}",
    "return-type": "json",
    "format-icons": {
        "has-updates": "󱍷",
        "updated": "󰂪"
    },
    "exec-if": "which waybar-module-pacman-updates",
    "exec": "waybar-module-pacman-updates --interval-seconds 5 --network-interval-seconds 300"
}

• add "custom/updates" to one of modules-left, modules-center or modules-right
• install nerd font to see icons or change icons as you like and restart waybar

Options

--no-zero-output - don't print "0" if there are no updates available.

--no-aur - disable checking for AUR updates.

--interval-seconds - interval to run checkupdates without network usage.

--network-interval-seconds - interval to run checkupdates and AUR updates with network usage.

--tooltip-align-columns - format tooltip as a table using given monospaced font.

--color-semver-updates - color each package update in a color corresponding to the type of update (major, minor, patch, pre)

How to hide the module when there are no updates available

waybar config

"custom/updates": {
    "format": "{} {icon}",
    "return-type": "json",
    "format-icons": {
        "has-updates": "󱍷",
        "updated": ""
    },
    "exec-if": "which waybar-module-pacman-updates",
    "exec": "waybar-module-pacman-updates --no-zero-output"
}

style.css

#custom-updates {
	background-color: transparent;
}

installation options

Install from cargo crates

cargo install waybar-module-pacman-updates

Make sure you have $HOME/.cargo/bin in your PATH env variable.

Install from AUR

yay -S waybar-module-pacman-updates-git

Install from source

sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coffebar/waybar-module-pacman-updates/master/installer.sh)"

Make sure you have $HOME/.local/bin in your PATH env variable.