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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...

Date: August 25, 2025

Today I gave modd <https://github.com/cortesi/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

[config]
  **/*.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.

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

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

[code]
  modd