awesome-wm-widgets/BatteryWidget/README.md

Battery widget

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

Basically this widget consists of an icon which shows the battery status:

And a pop-up window, which shows up when you hover over it:

Installation

This widget uses the output of acpi tool.

• install acpi tool:

sudo apt-get install acpi

• clone/copy battery.lua file and battery-icons folder to your ~/home/username/.config/awesome/ folder;

• include battery.lua and add battery widget to your wibox in rc.lua:

require("battery")
...
right_layout:add(batteryIcon)