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

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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:
• 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	Font	Play 8
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
notification	false	Display a notification on mouseover
notification_position	top_right	The notification position
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/batteryarc-widget/spaceman.jpg	Icon of the warning popup

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(),
		...