Replacing deprecated IPC hooks with IPC actions

polybar/launch.sh

@@ -9,12 +9,9 @@ killall -q polybar
 while pgrep -u $UID -x polybar >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
 
 for m in $(polybar --list-monitors | cut -d":" -f1); do
-    MONITOR=$m polybar top -c ~/.config/polybar/config-top.ini > top.log &
-    MONITOR=$m polybar bottom -c ~/.config/polybar/config-bottom.ini > bottom.log &
+    MONITOR=$m polybar top -c ~/.config/polybar/config-top.ini > ~/.config/polybar/top.log &
+    MONITOR=$m polybar bottom -c ~/.config/polybar/config-bottom.ini > ~/config/polybar/bottom.log &
 done
 
 exit 0
 
-# Launch bar1 and bar2
-#polybar top -c ~/.config/polybar/config-top.ini &
-#polybar bottom -c ~/.config/polybar/config-bottom.ini &

polybar/spotify/py_spotify_listener.py

@@ -58,18 +58,21 @@ def event_handler(*args, **kwargs):
     """arg[1] contains metadata"""
     """arg[1][1] contains PlaybackStatus"""
     data = unwrap(args)
-    if 'spotify' in data[1]['Metadata']['mpris:trackid']:
+    #if 'spotify' in data[1]['Metadata']['mpris:trackid']:
+    if 'PlaybackStatus' in data[1]:
         if data[1]['PlaybackStatus'] == "Playing":
             print("Music is playing")
-            system("polybar-msg hook playpause 2")
             """ Send IPC hook 2 to all bars for module playpause """
+            #system("polybar-msg hook playpause 2")
+            system("polybar-msg action '#playpause.hook.1'")
         if data[1]['PlaybackStatus'] == "Paused":
             print("Music is paused.")
             """ Send IPC hook 3 to all bars module playpause """
-            system("polybar-msg hook playpause 3")
+            #system("polybar-msg hook playpause 3")
+            system("polybar-msg action '#playpause.hook.2'")
             """ Send IPC hook 2 to all bars for module spotify """
-        system("polybar-msg hook spotify 2")
-        #system("polybar-msg action spotify 2")
+    #system("polybar-msg hook spotify 2")
+    system("polybar-msg action '#spotify.hook.1'")
 
 def unwrap(val):
     if isinstance(val, dbus.ByteArray):