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 = "toggle track",   group = "cmus"}),
awful.key({                 }, "XF86AudioPlay",  function () cmus_widget:play()       end, {description = "play track",     group = "cmus"}),
awful.key({                 }, "XF86AudioPause", function () cmus_widget:play()       end, {description = "pause track",    group = "cmus"}),
awful.key({                 }, "XF86AudioNext",  function () cmus_widget:next_track() end, {description = "next track",     group = "cmus"}),
awful.key({                 }, "XF86AudioPrev",  function () cmus_widget:prev_track() end, {description = "previous track", group = "cmus"}),
awful.key({                 }, "XF86AudioStop",  function () cmus_widget:stop()       end, {description = "stop track",      group = "cmus"}),

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	beautiful.font	Font name and size, like Play 12
path_to_icons	/usr/share/icons/Arc/actions/symbolic/	Alternative path for the icons
timeout	10	Refresh cooldown
max_length	30	Maximum lentgh of title. Text will be ellipsized if longer.
space	3	Space between icon and track title