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Battery widget

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

This widget consists of

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

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

Installation

This widget reads the output of acpi tool.

  • install acpi and check the output:

{% highlight bash %} $ sudo apt-get install acpi $ acpi Battery 0: Discharging, 66%, 02:34:06 remaining {% endhighlight %}

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

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

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