fix widget updating, make all the picturebuttons go through one function and not define their own .buttons table

init.lua

@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ function switcherpopup.new(s)
     }
   })
   function clock.update(self)
-    local naughty = require("naughty")
-    for k,v in ipairs(self.widget.children[1]) do
-      naughty.notify({text=tostring(k)..": "..tostring(v.text)})
-    end
     self.widget.children[1].markup = string.format('<span size="xx-large">%s</span>',os.date("%H:%M"))
     self.widget.children[2].markup = os.date("%Y-%m-%d")
   end
@@ -56,7 +52,7 @@ function switcherpopup.new(s)
   local function updateSwitcherpopup()
     clock:update()
     tagindex.markup = '<span size="xx-large" color="'..tostring(beautiful.bg_normal)..'">'..tostring(awful.screen.focused().selected_tag.name)..'</span>'
-    for k,v in ipairs(indicators) do
+    for k,v in ipairs(indicators.children) do
      pcall(v.update, v)
     end
     tasklistWidget:reset()
@@ -88,51 +84,53 @@ function switcherpopup.new(s)
     end
   end
   screen.connect_signal("arrange",updateSwitcherpopup)
-  local function pictureButton(icon,text,fn,lfn)
+  local updateTimer = gears.timer{
+   timeout = 60,
+   callback = updateSwitcherpopup
+  }
+
+  local function pictureButton(icon,fn,lfn)
     local rc = wibox.container.constraint(wibox.widget({
       widget=wibox.widget.imagebox,
       forced_width = switcherpopup.buttonSize,
       forced_height = switcherpopup.buttonSize,
       image = switcherpopup.iconPath .. "/" .. icon
     }),nil,switcherpopup.buttonSize,switcherpopup.buttonSize)
+    longpress.add(rc,fn,lfn)
     return wibox.container.place(rc)
   end
-  local close_button = pictureButton("window-close.svg")
-  close_button:buttons(gears.table.join(
-    close_button:buttons(),
-    awful.button({}, 1, nil, function()
+
+  local close_button = pictureButton("window-close.svg",
+    function()
       if s.clients[1] then
         s.clients[1]:kill()
         popup.visible = false
       end
-    end)
-  ))
-  local create_tag_button = pictureButton("tag-create.svg")
-  create_tag_button:buttons(gears.table.join(
-    create_tag_button:buttons(),
-    awful.button({}, 1, nil, function()
+    end
+  )
+  local create_tag_button = pictureButton("tag-create.svg",
+    function()
       awful.tag.add(switcherpopup.nextTagName(s), {
         screen = s,
         layout = switcherpopup.defaultLayout
       }):view_only()
       popup.visible = false
-    end)
-  ))
-  local destroy_tag_button = pictureButton("tag-destroy.svg",s.selected_tag.name)
-  destroy_tag_button:buttons(gears.table.join(
-    destroy_tag_button:buttons(),
-    awful.button({}, 1, nil, function()
+    end
+  )
+  local destroy_tag_button = pictureButton("tag-destroy.svg",
+    function()
       if #s.tags > 1 then
         s.selected_tag:delete()
         popup.visible = false
       end
-    end)
-  ))
-  local prev_tag_button = pictureButton("go-previous.svg")
-  longpress.add(prev_tag_button, function()
+    end
+  )
+  local prev_tag_button = pictureButton("go-previous.svg",
+    function()
       awful.tag.viewprev(s)
       popup.visible = false
-  end, function()
+    end,
+    function()
       if s.clients[1] and s.selected_tag then
         local nextTag = s.selected_tag.index-1
         if nextTag < 1 then nextTag = #s.tags end
@@ -141,20 +139,23 @@ function switcherpopup.new(s)
         error("move attempted")
       end
       error("move failed?")
-  end)
-
-  local next_tag_button = pictureButton("go-next.svg")
-  longpress.add(next_tag_button, function()
+    end
+  )
+  local next_tag_button = pictureButton("go-next.svg",
+    function()
       awful.tag.viewnext(s)
       popup.visible = false
-  end, function()
+    end,
+    function()
       if s.clients[1] and s.selected_tag then
         local nextTag = s.selected_tag.index+1
         if nextTag > #s.tags then nextTag = 1 end
         s.clients[1]:move_to_tag(s.tags[nextTag])
         popup.visible = false
       end
-  end)
+    end
+  )
+
   local tagbuttons = wibox.widget({layout = wibox.layout.grid.horizontal, prev_tag_button,create_tag_button,wibox.widget{layout=wibox.layout.stack, destroy_tag_button, tagindex},next_tag_button,close_button})
   systray:set_screen(s)
   systray:set_horizontal(true)
@@ -169,13 +170,20 @@ function switcherpopup.new(s)
   function popup.show(self)
     updateSwitcherpopup()
     self.visible = true
+    updateTimer:again()
   end
   function popup.hide(self)
     self.visible = false
+    updateTimer:stop()
   end
   function popup.toggle(self)
     updateSwitcherpopup()
     self.visible = not self.visible 
+    if self.visible then
+      updateTimer:again()
+    else
+      updateTimer:stop()
+    end
   end
   return popup
 end