--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Watch widget. -- Here is an example of simple temperature widget which will update each 15 -- seconds implemented in two different ways. -- The first, simpler one, will just display the return command output -- (so output is stripped by shell commands). -- In the other example `sensors` returns to the widget its full output -- and it's trimmed in the widget callback function: -- -- 211 mytextclock, -- 212 wibox.widget.textbox(' | '), -- 213 -- one way to do that: -- 214 awful.widget.watch('bash -c "sensors | grep temp1"', 15), -- 215 -- another way: -- 216 awful.widget.watch('sensors', 15, function(widget, stdout) -- 217 for line in stdout:gmatch("[^\r\n]+") do -- 218 if line:match("temp1") then -- 219 widget:set_text(line) -- 220 return -- 221 end -- 222 end -- 223 end), -- 224 s.mylayoutbox, -- -- ![Example screenshot](../images/awful_widget_watch.png) -- -- @author Benjamin Petrenko -- @author Yauheni Kirylau -- @copyright 2015, 2016 Benjamin Petrenko, Yauheni Kirylau -- @widgetmod awful.widget.watch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- local setmetatable = setmetatable local textbox = require("wibox.widget.textbox") local timer = require("gears.timer") local spawn = require("awful.spawn") local watch = { mt = {} } --- Create a textbox that shows the output of a command -- and updates it at a given time interval. -- -- @tparam string|table command The command. -- -- @tparam[opt=5] integer timeout The time interval at which the textbox -- will be updated. -- -- @tparam[opt] function callback The function that will be called after -- the command output will be received. it is shown in the textbox. -- Defaults to: -- function(widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) -- widget:set_text(stdout) -- end -- @param callback.widget Base widget instance. -- @tparam string callback.stdout Output on stdout. -- @tparam string callback.stderr Output on stderr. -- @tparam string callback.exitreason Exit Reason. -- The reason can be "exit" or "signal". -- @tparam integer callback.exitcode Exit code. -- For "exit" reason it's the exit code. -- For "signal" reason — the signal causing process termination. -- -- @param[opt=wibox.widget.textbox()] base_widget Base widget. -- -- @return The widget used by this watch. -- @return Its gears.timer. -- @constructorfct awful.widget.watch function watch.new(command, timeout, callback, base_widget) timeout = timeout or 5 base_widget = base_widget or textbox() callback = callback or function(widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) -- luacheck: no unused args widget:set_text(stdout) end local t = timer { timeout = timeout } t:connect_signal("timeout", function() t:stop() spawn.easy_async(command, function(stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) callback(base_widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) t:again() end) end) t:start() t:emit_signal("timeout") return base_widget, t end function watch.mt.__call(_, ...) return watch.new(...) end return setmetatable(watch, watch.mt) -- vim: filetype=lua:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=8:softtabstop=4:textwidth=80