A lot of people expect widgets like this one to auto-magically work,
and somehow don't understand that *they* need to make sure there is a
source of information. Is ACPI module loaded? Is battery info exposed
in the same place that widget expects by default? You need to answer
those questions before loading the widget and sending me "bug"
reports.
The widget reads /proc/acpi/battery/*/{info,state} and doesn't require
an external utility like 'acpi' or 'acpitool'. It returns state,
charge and remaining time information, just like the old bat (now
batat) widget. Using /sys/class/power_supply we would need to open
much more file descriptors so we use /proc for now.
It's time for a standalone battery widget that reads
/proc/acpi/battery/*/{info,state} alone. However the old battery
widget that uses 'acpitool' will not be deleted, let it serve as an
alternative widget as a convenience. Some might also prefer it over
reading multiple files in /proc
Vicious is a modular widget library for 'awesome' window manager,
derived from the 'Wicked' widget library.
Summary of changes:
* Original wicked code modularized
* Widgets ported from Wicked:
- CPU, MEM, FS, NET, Date, Uptime, MPD
* CPU widget rewritten, uses pattern matching
* MEM widget rewritten, uses pattern matching
- Swap widget merged with MEM widget type
* FS widget rewritten, uses pattern matching
- Also fixed padding in the process
* NET widget rewritten, uses pattern matching
* MPD widget rewritten, a bit more versatile
* Removed deprecated helper functions
* Widgets written for Vicious:
- Thermal, Battery, Mbox, OrgMode, Volume, Entropy,
Disk I/O, System Load, Wireless, Pacman, Maildir
Adrian C. (anrxc)