Disable itctrl_c=False, to make your interactivealive_barmuch smoother to use (there are no stack traces if you stop it), and/or if it is at the top-level of your program! Beware: If it is e.g. inside a for-loop, it will just continue to the next iteration, which may or may...
I tried lots of ways to turn it on and 3 or 4 time I was sucsses but after a few minutes it would die again