Async

awesome/background_widget.lua

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ end
 
 function add_background_widget(s)
 
+    awful.spawn.easy_async_with_shell(":", function()
+
         local f = io.open(todo_path, "rb")
 
         if f ~= nil then
@@ -78,5 +80,7 @@ function add_background_widget(s)
 
         end
 
+    end)
+
 end