dotfiles/awesome/widgets/battery-widget

Battery widget

Simple and easy-to-install widget for Awesome Window Manager.

This widget consists of:

• an icon which shows the battery level:
• a pop-up window, which shows up when you hover over an icon: Alternatively you can use a tooltip (check the code):
• a pop-up warning message which appears on bottom right corner when battery level is less that 15% (you can get the image here):

Note that widget uses the Arc icon theme, so it should be installed first under /usr/share/icons/Arc/ folder.

Customization

It is possible to customize widget by providing a table with all or some of the following config parameters:

Name	Default	Description
font	Play 8	Fond
path_to_icons	/usr/share/icons/Arc/status/symbolic/	Path to the folder with icons*
show_current_level	false	Show current charge level
margin_right	0	The right margin of the widget
margin_left	0	The left margin of the widget
display_notification	false	Display a notification on mouseover
notification_position	top_right	The notification position
timeout	10	How often in seconds the widget refreshes
warning_msg_title	Huston, we have a problem	Title of the warning popup
warning_msg_text	Battery is dying	Text of the warning popup
warning_msg_position	bottom_right	Position of the warning popup
warning_msg_icon	~/.config/awesome/awesome-wm-widgets/battery-widget/spaceman.jpg	Icon of the warning popup
enable_battery_warning	true	Display low battery warning

*Note: the widget expects following icons to be present in the folder:

• battery-caution-charging-symbolic.svg
• battery-empty-charging-symbolic.svg
• battery-full-charged-symbolic.svg
• battery-full-symbolic.svg
• battery-good-symbolic.svg
• battery-low-symbolic.svg
• battery-caution-symbolic.svg
• battery-empty-symbolic.svg
• battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg
• battery-good-charging-symbolic.svg
• battery-low-charging-symbolic.svg
• battery-missing-symbolic.svg

Installation

This widget reads the output of acpi tool.

• install acpi and check the output:

$ sudo apt-get install acpi
$ acpi
Battery 0: Discharging, 66%, 02:34:06 remaining

local battery_widget = require("awesome-wm-widgets.battery-widget.battery")

...
s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
	{ -- Right widgets
    	layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
		...
		battery_widget(),
		...