Today I gave modd a try, and it seems like a good file watcher executor. I tried using libnotify to send desktop notifications, but all I got was modd, I might not have notifications setup right on the awesomewm machine.

config goes in modd.conf


**/*.py {
  # check formatting via ruff
  prep: ruff format --check .

  # check docstring formatting
  prep: pydocstyle .
  #
  # # check type hints via ty
  prep: ty check .
  #
  # # run linter via ruff
  prep: ruff check .
}

I installed it using installer from jpillora, pulling pre-built binaries right out of the github repo.


curl https://i.jpillora.com/cortesi/modd | bash

Then you can install it, and on file change it will run the commands you configured.


modd