awesome-wm-widgets/_widgets/cmus-widget.md

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Cmus widget

Cmus widget that shows the current playing track.

Left click toggles playback.

Installation

Clone the repo under ~/.config/awesome/ and add widget in rc.lua:

local cmus_widget = require('awesome-wm-widgets.cmus-widget.cmus')
...
s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
    { -- Right widgets
    	layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
        ...
        -- default
        cmus_widget(),
        -- customized
        cmus_widget{
            space = 5,
            timeout = 5
        },

Shortcuts

To improve responsiveness of the widget when playback is changed by a shortcut use corresponding methods of the widget:

awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "p", function () cmus_widget:play_pause() end, {description = "play/pause cmus", group = "custom"}),

Customization

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

Generic parameter

Name	Default	Description
font	Play 9	Font used for the track title
path_to_icons	/usr/share/icons/Arc/actions/symbolic/	Alternative path for the icons
timeout	10	Refresh cooldown
space	3	Space between icon and track title