awesomerc.5.txt with Kai Grossjohann's improved shell-script

+ making the AUTHOR's section more homogeneous.
+ some other minor corrections

Signed-off-by: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
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2. Create ~/.awesome/bottom-status-bar
statusbar "bottom" {
statusbar "bottom"
{
position = "bottom"
textbox "clock" {
}
textbox "clock" { }
}
3. Check the configuration file for errors
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4. Create ~/bin/awesome-clock
#!/bin/bash
emitClock()
{
ctime=`date '+%A %d %B %Y %H:%M:%S'`;
echo "0 widget_tell clock text ${ctime}" | awesome-client
}
while true; do
emitClock
sleep 1;
done
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
echo "0 widget_tell clock text `date`"
echo "" # a empty line flushes data inside awesome
sleep 1
done | awesome-client
Note: What we're saying is "awesome-client, tell widget 'clock' to set
it's 'text' property to '${ctime}'".
it's 'text' property to date's output".
5. Make your ~/bin/awesome-clock executable
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7. Restart awesome
8. If your didn't get what you were expecting, take a look at
~/.xsession-errors
~/.xsession-errors or the terminal where X got started.
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AUTHORS
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This man page was written by Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> and Marco Candrian <mac@calmar.ws>.
Chris Ciulla <chris dot ciulla at gmail dot com> modified and "enhanced" the
"Simple Clock" example by anonymous for the "Simple Textbox Example".
This man page was written by Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>, Marco Candrian <mac@calmar.ws>
and Chris Ciulla <chris.ciulla at gmail.com> (Simple textbox example).
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