awesome-wm-widgets

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

Installation

Install lua socket - to make HTTP calls to get the weather information.
```
$ sudo apt-get install lua-socket
```
Download json parser for lua from github.com/rxi/json.lua and place it under ~/.config/awesome/ (don't forget to star a repo ):
```
wget -P ~/.config/awesome/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rxi/json.lua/master/json.lua
```

Clone this repo under ~/.config/awesome/:

git clone https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets.git ~/.config/awesome/

Get Open Weather Map app id here: openweathermap.org/appid and place it in ~/.config/awesome/awesome-wm-widgets/secrets.lua, or directly in the widget. Don't forget to set also your city and units - C/F.

Require weather widget at the beginning of rc.lua:

local weather_widget = require("awesome-wm-widgets.weather-widget.weather")

Add widget to the tasklist:

s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
    { -- Right widgets
        layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
        ...
        weather_widget,
        ...

You can read how it works in more details here