wifi: add support for /usr/bin binary path

Years ago iwconfig started its life in /sbin. Then some distributions
moved it to /usr/bin. Then in 2012 some projects started pushing for
deprecation of /usr/sbin and merging everything into /usr/bin.

We now search paths including /usr/bin for the iwconfig binary. This
is because sbin paths are not usually in non privileged user PATH, so
we help io.popen locate the binary on the file-system.

We do this search in the following way:
  - default to basename only, 'iwconfig' for the iwconfig variable
  - search paths one by one once and redeclare variable iwconfig with
    full path if binary is found in any
  - avoid searching paths on next execution if iwconfig variable
    already contains a path

widgets/wifi.lua

@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ local math = { ceil = math.ceil }
 local setmetatable = setmetatable
 local helpers = require("vicious.helpers")
 local io = {
-    open = io.open,
+    open  = io.open,
     popen = io.popen
 }
 local string = {
-    find = string.find,
+    find  = string.find,
     match = string.match
 }
 -- }}}
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ local string = {
 local wifi = {}
 
 
+-- {{{ Variable definitions
+local iwconfig = "iwconfig"
+local iwcpaths = { "/sbin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/bin" }
+-- }}}
+
+
 -- {{{ Wireless widget type
 local function worker(format, warg)
     if not warg then return end
@@ -39,14 +45,19 @@ local function worker(format, warg)
         ["{sign}"] = 0
     }
 
-    -- Get data from iwconfig where available
+    -- Sbin paths aren't in user PATH, search for the binary
-    local iwconfig = "/sbin/iwconfig"
+    if iwconfig == "iwconfig" then
-    local f = io.open(iwconfig, "rb")
+        for _, p in ipairs(iwcpaths) do
-    if not f then
+            local f = io.open(p .. "/iwconfig", "rb")
-        iwconfig = "/usr/sbin/iwconfig"
+            if f then
-    else
+                iwconfig = p .. "/iwconfig"
-        f:close()
+                f:close()
+                break
+            end
+        end
     end
+
+    -- Get data from iwconfig where available
     local f = io.popen(iwconfig .." ".. warg .. " 2>&1")
     local iw = f:read("*all")
     f:close()