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Battery widget

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

This widget consists of:

  • an icon which shows the battery level:
    Battery Widget
  • a pop-up window, which shows up when you hover over an icon:
    Battery Widget
    Alternatively you can use a tooltip:
    Battery Widget
  • a pop-up warning message which appears on bottom right corner when battery level is less that 15%:
    Battery Widget

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

Also it's worth mentioning that if the charge is more that 95% the widget is hidden. This is done intentionally in order to save some space on wibox when laptop is plugged in dock station or power socket. You can edit this behaviour here

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

  • clone/copy battery.lua file to ~/.config/awesome/ folder;

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

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