awesome-wm-widgets/BatteryWidget

Battery widget

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

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

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

Installation

This widget ueses the output of acpi tool.

• install acpi tool:

{% highlight bash %} sudo apt-get install acpi {% endhighlight %}

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

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

{% highlight lua%} right_layout:add(batteryIcon) {% endhighlight %}