Help with getting this working with sway

If I use the status bar config block below, I just get the bar (which does show up) with in the right corner “[error reading from status command]”. This works perfectly in i3. What am I missing here? I couldn’t locate anything of clear use in the sway docs.

And of course there is the obvious cause – brain damage.

My bar section (slightly redacted):

bar {
  status_command bumblebee-status \
            -m sensors2 spacer load spacer memory \
                 spacer pasink pasource spacer spacer weather \
                 spacer indicator spacer time system \
            -p weather.location=redact,ed weather.showcity=true \
                weather.unit=imperial \
                weather.apikey=redacted \
            sensors2.chip_field_include=coretemp-isa-0000.temp1,amdgpu-pci-0100.temp1 \
            time.format="%d %b %Y - %I:%M:%S %P" \
            indicator.include=capslock,numlock,scrolllock \
            -t dracula-powerline
  
  position top
  
  font pango: Liberation Mono Bold 9
}

Thanks much! Andrew.

[andrewschott]

Your comment made me try something – the full damn path to the bb-status binary. That fixed things.

And for the record, pip userinstall.

Must be a sway thing that wants the full path for this. Noticed while tinkering around, a few things that are just … different. That said, thanks so much for putting up with this nonsense with me!

Must say, I am impressed with how well things are going with sway now that I can toy around and get stuff finished up.

[gkeep]

Hmm… Works just fine on my machine.

I’m guessing this is either an installation issue or an environment issue.

Can you tell how did you install bumblebee-status (git, AUR, PyPI)? And what Python version do you have installed?