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Vicious
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Vicious is a modular widget library for window managers, but mostly
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catering to users of the "awesome" window manager. It was derived from
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the old "Wicked" widget library, and has some of the old Wicked widget
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types, a few of them rewritten, and a good number of new ones:
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- http://git.sysphere.org/vicious/about/
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Vicious widget types are a framework for creating your own
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widgets. Vicious contains modules that gather data about your system,
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and a few "awesome" helper functions that make it easier to register
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timers, suspend widgets and so on.
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For now Vicious doesn't depend on any third party Lua libraries, to
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make it easier to install and use. That means some system utilities
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are used instead, where available:
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- hddtemp for the HDD Temperature widget type
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- alsa-utils for the Volume widget type
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- wireless_tools for the Wireless widget type
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- curl for widget types accessing network resources
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Usage
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-----
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When provided by an operating system package, or installed from source
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into the Lua library path Vicious can be used as a regular Lua
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library, to be used stand-alone or to feed widgets of any window
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manager (ie. Ion, WMII). It is compatible with both Lua v5.1 and v5.2.
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$ lua
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> widgets = require("vicious.widgets")
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> print(widgets.volume(nil, "Master")[1])
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100
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Usage within Awesome
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To use Vicious with Awesome, install the package from your operating
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system provider, or download the source code and move it to your
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awesome configuration directory in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (usually ~/.config):
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$ mv vicious $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome/
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Vicious will only load modules for widget types you intend to use in
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your awesome configuration, to avoid having useless modules sitting in
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your memory.
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Then add the following to the top of your rc.lua:
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vicious = require("vicious")
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Once you create a widget (a textbox, graph or a progressbar) call
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vicious.register() to register it with Vicious:
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vicious.register(widget, wtype, format, interval, warg)
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widget
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- widget created with widget() or awful.widget() (in case of a
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graph or a progressbar)
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wtype
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- widget type or a function
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- any of the available (default, or custom) widget types can
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be used here, see below for a list of those provided by
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Vicious
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- function
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- custom functions from your own "awesome" configuration can
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be registered as widget types, see the "Custom widget types"
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section
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format
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- string argument or a function
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- $1, $2, $3... will be replaced by their respective value
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returned by the widget type, some widget types return tables
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with string keys, in that case use: ${key}
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- function
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- function(widget, args) can be used to manipulate data
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returned by the widget type, more about this below
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interval
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- number of seconds between updates of the widget, 2s by
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default, also read the "Power" section below
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warg
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- some widget types require an argument to be passed, for example
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the battery ID
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Other functions
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Unregister a widget:
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vicious.unregister(widget, keep)
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- if keep is true widget will be suspended, waiting to be
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activated
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Suspend all widgets:
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vicious.suspend()
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- example automation script for the "laptop-mode-tools" start-stop
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module: http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/local/sources/lmt-vicious.sh
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Restart suspended widgets:
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vicious.activate(widget)
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- if widget is provided only that widget will be activated
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Enable caching of a widget type:
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vicious.cache(wtype)
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- enable caching of values returned by a widget type
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Force update of widgets:
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vicious.force({ widget, })
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- widget argument is a table with one or more widgets that will be
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updated
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Widget types
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Widget types consist of worker functions that take the "format"
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argument given to vicious.register as the first argument, "warg" as
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the second, and return a table of values to insert in the format
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string.
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vicious.widgets.cpu
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- provides CPU usage for all available CPUs/cores
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- returns 1st value as usage of all CPUs/cores, 2nd as usage of
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first CPU/core, 3rd as usage of second CPU/core etc.
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vicious.widgets.cpuinf
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- provides speed and cache information for all available CPUs/cores
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- returns a table with string keys, using CPU ID as a base:
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{cpu0 mhz}, {cpu0 ghz}, {cpu0 kb}, {cpu0 mb}, {cpu1 mhz} etc.
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vicious.widgets.cpufreq
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- provides freq, voltage and governor info for a requested CPU
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- takes the CPU ID as an argument, i.e. "cpu0"
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- returns 1st value as frequency of requested CPU in MHz, 2nd in
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GHz, 3rd as voltage in mV, 4th as voltage in V and 5th as the
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governor state
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vicious.widgets.thermal
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- provides temperature levels of ACPI and coretemp thermal zones
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- takes the thermal zone as an argument, i.e. "thermal_zone0", or a
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table with 1st field as thermal zone, 2nd as data source -
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available data sources are "proc", "core" and "sys" (which is the
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default when only the zone is provided) and 3rd optional argument
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as a temperature input file to read
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- returns 1st value as temperature of requested thermal zone
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vicious.widgets.uptime
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- provides system uptime and load information
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- returns 1st value as uptime in days, 2nd as uptime in hours, 3rd
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as uptime in minutes, 4th as load average for past 1 minute, 5th
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for 5 minutes and 6th for 15 minutes
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vicious.widgets.bat
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- provides state, charge, remaining time and wear for a requested
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battery
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- takes battery ID as an argument, i.e. "BAT0"
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- returns 1st value as state of requested battery, 2nd as charge
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level in percent, 3rd as remaining (charging or discharging)
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time and 4th as the wear level in percent
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vicious.widgets.mem
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- provides RAM and Swap usage statistics
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- returns 1st value as memory usage in percent, 2nd as memory usage,
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3rd as total system memory, 4th as free memory, 5th as swap usage
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in percent, 6th as swap usage, 7th as total system swap, 8th as
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free swap and 9th as memory usage with buffers and cache
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vicious.widgets.os
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- provides operating system information
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- returns 1st value as the operating system in use, 2nd as the
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release version, 3rd as your username, 4th the hostname, 5th as
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available system entropy and 6th value as available entropy in
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vicious.widgets.fs
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- provides file system disk space usage
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- takes an (optional) argument which, if true, includes remote file
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systems, only local file systems are included by default
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- returns a table with string keys, using mount points as a base:
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{/ size_mb}, {/ size_gb}, {/ used_mb}, {/ used_gb}, {/ used_p},
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{/ avail_mb}, {/ avail_gb}, {/ avail_p}, {/home size_mb} etc.
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vicious.widgets.dio
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- provides I/O statistics for all available storage devices
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- returns a table with string keys: {sda total_s}, {sda total_kb},
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{sda total_mb}, {sda read_s}, {sda read_kb}, {sda read_mb},
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{sda write_s}, {sda write_kb}, {sda write_mb}, {sdb1 total_s} etc.
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vicious.widgets.raid
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- provides state information for a requested RAID array
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- takes the RAID array ID as an argument
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- returns 1st value as the number of assigned, and 2nd as active,
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vicious.widgets.hddtemp
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- provides hard drive temperatures using the hddtemp daemon
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- takes the hddtemp listening port as an argument, or defaults to
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- returns a table with string keys, using hard drives as a base:
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{/dev/sda} and {/dev/sdc} for example
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- provides state and usage statistics of all network interfaces
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- returns a table with string keys, using net interfaces as a base:
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{eth0 carrier}, {eth0 rx_b}, {eth0 tx_b}, {eth0 rx_kb}, {eth0 tx_kb},
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{eth0 up_mb}, {eth0 down_gb}, {eth0 up_gb}, {eth1 rx_b} etc.
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- provides wireless information for a requested interface
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- takes the network interface as an argument, i.e. "wlan0"
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- returns a table with string keys: {ssid}, {mode}, {chan}, {rate},
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- similar to vicious.widgets.wifi, but uses iw instead of iwconfig
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- provides wireless information for a requested interface
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- provides the subject of last e-mail in a mbox file
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1st field as path, 2nd as maximum length and 3rd (optional) as
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- provides the count of total, old and new messages in mbox files
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- takes a table with full paths to mbox files as an argument
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- returns 1st value as the total count of messages, 2nd as the count
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- provides the number of new and unread messages in Maildir
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- takes a table with full paths to Maildir structures as an argument
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- provides count of new and subject of last e-mail on Gmail
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- takes an (optional) argument, if it's a number subject will be
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- keeps login information in the ~/.netrc file, example:
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and then "allowed access to your account for less secure apps" (https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps)
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- provides agenda statistics for Emacs org-mode
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- takes a table with full paths to agenda files, that will be
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parsed, as an argument
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- returns 1st value as count of tasks you forgot to do, 2nd as count
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of tasks for today, 3rd as count of tasks for the next 3 days and
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4th as count of tasks to do in the week
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vicious.widgets.pkg
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- provides number of pending updates on UNIX systems
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- takes the distribution name as an argument, i.e. "Arch"
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- takes a table as an argument, 1st field should be the password (or
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- returns a table with string keys: {volume}, {state}, {Artist},
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- provides volume levels and state of requested ALSA mixers
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- takes the ALSA mixer control as an argument, i.e. "Master",
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- returns 1st value as the volume level and 2nd as the mute state of
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the requested channel
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- takes the ICAO station code as an argument, i.e. "LDRI"
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- returns a table with string keys: {city}, {wind}, {windmph},
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Custom widget types
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in. How data will be formatted, will it be red or blue, should be
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functions as widget types. By providing them as the second argument to
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vicious.register. Your function can accept "format" and "warg"
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Power and Caching
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of wake-ups and also be very expensive for system resources. This is
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especially important when running on battery power. It was a big
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Lua is an extremely fast and efficient programming language, and
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Vicious takes advantage of that. But suspending Vicious widgets is one
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Update intervals also play a big role, and you can save a lot of power
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with a smart approach. Don't use intervals like: 5, 10, 30, 60... to
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avoid harmonics. If you take the 60-second mark as an example, all of
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your widgets would be executed at that point. Instead think about
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using only prime numbers, in that case you will have only a few
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widgets executed at any given time interval. When choosing intervals
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also consider what a widget actually does. Some widget types read
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files that reside in memory, others call external utilities and some,
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like the mbox widget, read big files.
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Vicious can also cache values returned by widget types. Caching
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enables you to have multiple widgets using the same widget type. With
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caching its worker function gets executed only once - which is also
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great for saving power.
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- Some widget types keep internal data and if you call one multiple
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times without caching, the widget that executes it first would
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modify stored values. This can lead to problems and give you
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inconsistent data. Remember it for widget types like CPU and
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Network usage, which compare the old set of data with the new one
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to calculate current usage.
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- Widget types that require a widget argument to be passed should be
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handled carefully. If you are requesting information for different
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devices then caching should not be used, because you could get
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inconsistent data.
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Security
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--------
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At the moment only one widget type (Gmail) requires auth. information
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in order to get to the data. In the future there could be more, and
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you should give some thought to the issue of protecting your data. The
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Gmail widget type by default stores login information in the ~/.netrc
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file, and you are advised to make sure that file is only readable by
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the owner. Other than that we can not force all users to conform to
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one standard, one way of keeping it secure, like in some keyring.
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First let's clear why we simply don't encrypt the login information
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and store it in ciphertext. By exposing the algorithm anyone can
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reverse the encryption steps. Some claim even that's better than
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plaintext but it's just security trough obscurity.
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Here are some ideas actually worth your time. Users that have KDE (or
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parts of it) installed could store their login information into the
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Kwallet service and request it via DBus from the widget type. It can
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be done with tools like "dbus-send" and "qdbus". The Gnome keyring
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should support the same, so those with parts of Gnome installed could
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use that keyring.
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Users of GnuPG (and its agent) could consider encrypting the netrc
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file with their GPG key. Trough the GPG Passphrase Agent they could
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then decrypt the file transparently while their session is active.
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Usage examples
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---------------------------------
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Start with a simple widget, like date. Then build your setup from
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there, one widget at a time. Also remember that besides creating and
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registering widgets you have to add them to a wibox (statusbar) in
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order to actually display them.
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Date widget
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datewidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
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vicious.register(datewidget, vicious.widgets.date, "%b %d, %R")
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- updated every 2 seconds (the default interval), uses standard
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date sequences as the format string
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Memory widget
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memwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
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vicious.cache(vicious.widgets.mem)
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vicious.register(memwidget, vicious.widgets.mem, "$1 ($2MB/$3MB)", 13)
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- updated every 13 seconds, appends "MB" to 2nd and 3rd returned
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values and enables caching of this widget type
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HDD temperature widget
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hddtempwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
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vicious.register(hddtempwidget, vicious.widgets.hddtemp, "${/dev/sda} °C", 19)
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|
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||||||
- updated every 19 seconds, requests the temperature level of the
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||||||
{/dev/sda} key/disk and appends "°C" to the returned value, does
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not provide the port argument so default port is used
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||||||
|
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Mbox widget
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||||||
mboxwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
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vicious.register(mboxwidget, vicious.widgets.mbox, "$1", 5, "/home/user/mail/Inbox")
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||||||
|
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||||||
- updated every 5 seconds, provides full path to the mbox as an
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|
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argument
|
|
||||||
|
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||||||
Battery widget
|
|
||||||
batwidget = awful.widget.progressbar()
|
|
||||||
batwidget:set_width(8)
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||||||
batwidget:set_height(10)
|
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||||||
batwidget:set_vertical(true)
|
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||||||
batwidget:set_background_color("#494B4F")
|
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||||||
batwidget:set_border_color(nil)
|
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||||||
batwidget:set_color({ type = "linear", from = { 0, 0 }, to = { 0, 10 },
|
|
||||||
stops = {{ 0, "#AECF96" }, { 0.5, "#88A175" }, { 1, "#FF5656" }}})
|
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||||||
vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat, "$2", 61, "BAT0")
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- updated every 61 seconds, requests the current battery charge
|
|
||||||
level and displays a progressbar, provides "BAT0" battery ID as an
|
|
||||||
argument
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
CPU usage widget
|
|
||||||
cpuwidget = awful.widget.graph()
|
|
||||||
cpuwidget:set_width(50)
|
|
||||||
cpuwidget:set_background_color("#494B4F")
|
|
||||||
cpuwidget:set_color({ type = "linear", from = { 0, 0 }, to = { 50, 0 },
|
|
||||||
stops = { { 0, "#FF5656" }, { 0.5, "#88A175" }, { 1, "#AECF96" }})
|
|
||||||
vicious.cache(vicious.widgets.cpu)
|
|
||||||
vicious.register(cpuwidget, vicious.widgets.cpu, "$1", 3)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- updated every 3 seconds, feeds the graph with total usage
|
|
||||||
percentage of all CPUs/cores and enable caching of this widget
|
|
||||||
type
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Format functions
|
|
||||||
----------------
|
|
||||||
You can use a function instead of a string as the format parameter.
|
|
||||||
Then you are able to check the value returned by the widget type and
|
|
||||||
change it or perform some action. You can change the color of the
|
|
||||||
battery widget when it goes below a certain point, hide widgets when
|
|
||||||
they return a certain value or maybe use string.format for padding.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- Do not confuse this with just coloring the widget, in those cases
|
|
||||||
standard pango markup can be inserted into the format string.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The format function will get the widget as its first argument, table
|
|
||||||
with the values otherwise inserted into the format string as its
|
|
||||||
second argument, and will return the text/data to be used for the
|
|
||||||
widget.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Example
|
|
||||||
mpdwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
|
|
||||||
vicious.register(mpdwidget, vicious.widgets.mpd,
|
|
||||||
function (widget, args)
|
|
||||||
if args["{state}"] == "Stop" then return ""
|
|
||||||
else return '<span color="white">MPD:</span> '..
|
|
||||||
args["{Artist}"]..' - '.. args["{Title}"]
|
|
||||||
end
|
|
||||||
end)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- hides the mpd widget when no song is playing, updated every 2
|
|
||||||
seconds (the default interval)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Example
|
|
||||||
uptimewidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
|
|
||||||
vicious.register(uptimewidget, vicious.widgets.uptime,
|
|
||||||
function (widget, args)
|
|
||||||
return string.format("Uptime: %2dd %02d:%02d ", args[1], args[2], args[3])
|
|
||||||
end, 61)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- uses string.format for padding uptime values to a minimum amount
|
|
||||||
of digits, updated every 61 seconds
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
When it comes to padding it is also useful to mention how a widget can
|
|
||||||
be configured to have a fixed width. You can set a fixed width on your
|
|
||||||
textbox widgets by changing their .width field (by default width is
|
|
||||||
automatically adapted to text width).
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Example
|
|
||||||
uptimewidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
|
|
||||||
uptimewidget:set_align("right")
|
|
||||||
vicious.register(uptimewidget, vicious.widgets.uptime, "$1 $2:$3", 61)
|
|
||||||
uptimewidget = wibox.layout.constraint(uptimewidget, "exact", 50, nil)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- forces a fixed width of 50px to the uptime widget, and aligns its
|
|
||||||
text to the right
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Another use case are stacked graphs (aka multigraphs) which Vicious
|
|
||||||
does not handle on its own at the moment, as it's hard to pass on
|
|
||||||
color index arguments elegantly. But they are not unusable, far from
|
|
||||||
it.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Example
|
|
||||||
ctext = wibox.widget.textbox()
|
|
||||||
cgraph = awful.widget.graph()
|
|
||||||
cgraph:set_width(100):set_height(20)
|
|
||||||
cgraph:set_stack(true):set_max_value(100)
|
|
||||||
cgraph:set_background_color("#494B4F")
|
|
||||||
cgraph:set_stack_colors({ "#FF5656", "#88A175", "#AECF96" })
|
|
||||||
vicious.register(ctext, vicious.widgets.cpu,
|
|
||||||
function (widget, args)
|
|
||||||
cgraph:add_value(args[2], 1) -- Core 1, color 1
|
|
||||||
cgraph:add_value(args[3], 2) -- Core 2, color 2
|
|
||||||
cgraph:add_value(args[4], 3) -- Core 3, color 3
|
|
||||||
end, 3)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- enables graph stacking/multigraph and plots usage of all three CPU
|
|
||||||
cores on a single graph, the textbox "ctext" is just an empty
|
|
||||||
placeholder, graph is updated every 3 seconds
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
A lot of users are not happy with default symbols used in volume,
|
|
||||||
battery, cpufreq and other widget types. You can use your own symbols
|
|
||||||
without any need to modify modules.
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
volumewidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
|
|
||||||
vicious.register(volumewidget, vicious.widgets.volume,
|
|
||||||
function(widget, args)
|
|
||||||
local label = { ["♫"] = "O", ["♩"] = "M" }
|
|
||||||
return "Volume: " .. args[1] .. "% State: " .. label[args[2]]
|
|
||||||
end, 2, "PCM")
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- uses a custom table map to modify symbols representing the mixer
|
|
||||||
state; on or off/mute
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Other
|
|
||||||
-----
|
|
||||||
Read "awesome" manual pages:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- awesome(1) awesomerc(5)
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Awesome widgets explained:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Widgets_in_awesome
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Example "awesome" configuration:
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
- http://git.sysphere.org/awesome-configs/
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Authors
|
|
||||||
-------
|
|
||||||
Wicked written by:
|
|
||||||
- Lucas de Vries <lucas glacicle.com>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Vicious written by:
|
|
||||||
- Adrian C. (anrxc) <anrxc sysphere.org>
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Vicious major contributors:
|
|
||||||
- Benedikt Sauer <filmor gmail.com>
|
|
||||||
- Greg D. <jabbas jabbas.pl>
|
|
||||||
- Henning Glawe <glaweh debian.org>
|
|
||||||
- Rémy C. <shikamaru mandriva.org>
|
|
||||||
- Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo codemadness.org>
|
|
||||||
- Hagen Schink <troja84 googlemail.com>
|
|
||||||
- Jörg Thalheim <jthalheim gmail.com>
|
|
||||||
- Arvydas Sidorenko <asido4 gmail.com>
|
|
||||||
- Dodo The Last <dodo.the.last gmail.com>
|
|
||||||
- ...
|
|
||||||
- Consult git log for a complete list of contributors
|
|
||||||
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