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README.md
Radical menu system for AwesomeWM
=======================================
This is Radical, one of the largest Awesome extension module. It provide un unified interface to generate multiple types of menus.
Installation
Installing Radical is simple, just move to ~/.config/awesome and clone the repository
cd ~/.config/awesome
git clone https://github.com/Elv13/radical.git
The require it at the top of your rc.lua:
local radical = require("radical")
Usage
Unlike awful.menu, radical act like other Awesome 3.5 layouts. You need to add items one by one. This have the benefit of letting you interact with the items themselves programatically.
The most simple kind of menus, contexts one, can be created like this:
local menu = radical.context{}
menu:add_item {text="Screen 1",button1=function() print("Hello World! ") end}
menu:add_item {text="Screen 9",icon=beautiful.path.."Icon/layouts/tileleft.png"}
menu:add_item {text="Sub Menu",sub_menu = function()
local smenu = radical.context{}
smenu:add_item{text="item 1"}
smenu:add_item{text="item 2"}
return smenu
end}
-- To add the menu to a widget:
local mytextbox = wibox.widget.textbox()
mytextbox:set_menu(menu,3) -- 3 = right mouse button, 1 = left mouse button
-- To add a key binding on a "box" menu (and every other types)
menu:add_key_binding({"Mod4"},",")
In this example, a simple 3 item menu is created with a dynamically generated submenu. Please note that generating submenus using function will generate it every time it is being shown. For static menus, it is faster to simply create them once and passing the submenu object to the "sub_menu" item property.
:set_menu
can also take a lazy-loading function instead of a
menu. The second parameter is not mandatory, the default is 1
.
:add_key_binding
will add a key binding. It can also take a function as 3rd
parameter. However, it wont correctly place "context" menu as it have no idea
where you expect them. It work better with "box" menus.
Menu types
The current valid types are:
- Context: Regular context menu
- Box: Centered menus (think Windows alt-tab menu)
- Embed: Menus in menus. This can be used as subsections in large menus
Menu style
Each menus come in various styles for various applications. New style can also be created by beautiful themes. The current ones are:
- Arrow: Gnome3 and Mac OSX like menus with border radius and an arrow
- Classic: Replicate awful.menu look
Arrow also have a few types:
- radical.base.arrow_type.NONE
- radical.base.arrow_type.PRETTY
- radical.base.arrow_type.CENTERED
Item style
Like menus, items can have their own style. Valid values:
- Basic: The most simple kind of items, no borders or special shape
- Classic: 1px border at the end of each items
- Rounded: A 3px border radius at each corner
Menu layouts
On top of each styles, menu can also have different layouts to display items:
- Vertical: Items are displayed on top of each other
- Horizontal: Items are displayed alongside each other
- Grid: Items are displayed as a 2D array
Item layout
Item layouts are how widgets (icons, label, prefix) are disposed in the item
- horizontal: Default layout used by the context style
- icon: Look like a desktop icon, used by horizontal menus
- centerred: Align widgets at the center instead of using all space
Using styles and layouts
local radical = require("radical")
local m = radical.context {
style = radical.style.classic ,
item_style = radical.item_style.classic ,
layout = radical.layout.vertical }
Tooltip
Radical also have its own styled tooltip widget. It can be used in menus, but
also in every widgets using the set_tooltip
method:
local mytextbox = wibox.widget.textbox()
mytextbox:set_tooltip("foo bar")
Options
Radical offer a (very, very) wide range of options to allow the creation of rich and novel menus. The options are available in 2 formats: menu wide and item specific. Menu wide options will take effect on all items and on the way the menu itself is being displayed while items ones apply only to a specific item. Multiple items can have multiple sets of options.
Menu options
Name | Description | Type |
---|---|---|
bg | Background color | String/gradient/pattern |
fg | Foreground (text) color | String/gradient/pattern |
bg_focus | Background of focussed items | String/gradient/pattern |
fg_focus | Foreground of focussed items | String/gradient/pattern |
bg_alternate | Alternate background color | String/gradient/pattern |
bg_highlight | Highlight background color | String/gradient/pattern |
bg_header | Header (see widgets section) color | String/gradient/pattern |
bg_prefix | Prefix background for item_styles that support it | String/gradient/pattern |
border_color | Border color | String/gradient/pattern |
border_width | Border width | number |
item_height | Default height of items | number |
item_width | Default width of items | number |
width | Original width | number |
default_width | Default menu width | number |
icon_size | Icon size | number |
auto_resize | Resize menu if items are too large | boolean |
parent_geometry | Set the menu parent | geometry array |
arrow_type | Set the arrow type when use arrow style | see "arrow_type" enum |
visible | Show or hide the menu | boolean |
direction | The direction from which the arrow will point | "left","right","top","bottom" |
row | Number of row (in grid layout) | number |
column | Number of columns (in grid layout) | number |
layout | The menu layout (default:vertical) | see "Menu layouts" section |
style | The menu style (default:arrow) | see "Menu style" |
item_style | The item style (default:basic) | see "Item style" |
filter | Filter the menu when the user type | boolean |
show_filter | Show a filter widget at the bottom | boolean |
filter_string | Default filter string | string |
fkeys_prefix | Display F1-F12 indicators for easy navigation | boolean |
underlay_alpha | Underlay (see item options) opacity | 0-1 |
filter_prefix | Text to be shown at begenning of the filter string | string |
max_items | Maximum number of items before showing scrollbar | number |
enable_keyboard | Enable or disable keyboard navigation / hooks | boolean |
disable_markup | Disable pango markup in items text | boolean |
x | X position (absolute) | number |
y | Y position (absolute) | number |
sub_menu_on | Show submenu on selection or when clicking | see "event" enum |
select_on | The event used to trigger item selection | see "event" enum |
###Item options
Name | Description | Type |
---|---|---|
text | The item text | string |
height | The item height | number |
icon | The item icon | string or pattern |
bg | See menu options | see menu options |
fg | See menu options | see menu options |
fg_focus | See menu options | see menu options |
bg_focus | See menu options | see menu options |
sub_menu | Add a submenu to this item | menu or function |
selected | Select this item | boolean |
checkable | Is the item dual state (a checkbox) | boolean |
checked | Is the item checked or not | boolean |
underlay | Text to render at the far-right of the item | [array of] string |
prefix_widget | Widget to append at the begenning of the item | widget |
suffix_widget | Widget to append at the end of the item | widget |
item_style | Custom item_style for this item | item_style |
item_layout | Custom item_layout for this item | item_layout |
tooltip | A tooltip shown on the side or bottom | string |
button1 | Left mouse button action | function |
button2 | Mid mouse button action | function |
button3 | Right mouse button action | function |
button4 | Scroll up action | function |
button5 | Scroll down action | function |
###Common methods
All menus provide a bunch of methods. Most of them have been coverred above, but here is the list:
Name | Description | Arguments | Return |
---|---|---|---|
add_item | Add new item to a menu | array of options | item |
add_widget | Add a new widget instead of an item | a widget, args | --- |
add_embeded_menu | Add an inline menu to another menu | an "embed" menu | --- |
add_key_binding | Add a global key binding to a menu | mod array, key | --- |
add_key_hook | Add a callback when a key is pressed | mod, key, event, func | --- |
clear | Remove all items | --- | --- |
scroll_down | If the menu is cropped, scroll down | --- | --- |
scroll_up | If the menu is cropped, scroll up | --- | --- |
swap | Swap 2 items | both items | --- |
move | Move an item | the item, the new idx | --- |
remove | Remove the item | the item | --- |
append | Append an existing (but unused) item | the item | --- |
Menu also emit many signals, the syntax is usually PROPERTY_NAME::changed
. The
exeptions are item::moved
, item::swapped
, item::removed
, item::appended
###Beautiful options
Radical also use the some of the same theme options as awful.menu, plus some:
Name | Description | Type |
---|---|---|
menu_height | Menu height | String/Gradient/Pattern |
menu_width | Menu default/minimum width | Number |
menu_border_width | Border width | Number |
menu_border_color | Border color | String/Gradient/Pattern |
menu_fg_normal | Text/Foreground color | String/Gradient/Pattern |
menu_bg_focus | Selected item color | String/Gradient/Pattern |
menu_bg_header | Header widget background color | String/Gradient/Pattern |
menu_bg_alternate | Scrollbar and other widget color | String/Gradient/Pattern |
menu_bg_normal | Default background | String/Gradient/Pattern |
menu_bg_highlight | Highlighted item background | String/Gradient/Pattern |
menu_submenu_icon | Sub menu pixmap (aka >) | Path/Pattern |
menu_separator_color | Menu separator color | String/Gradient/Pattern |
draw_underlay | Function returning the underlay pixmap | Function |