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Usage Examples
==============
Start with a simple widget, like ``date``, then build your setup from there,
one widget at a time. Also remember that besides creating and registering
widgets you have to add them to a ``wibox`` (statusbar) in order to
actually display them.
Date Widget
-----------
Update every 2 seconds (the default interval),
use standard date sequences as the format string:
.. code-block:: lua
datewidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(datewidget, vicious.widgets.date, "%b %d, %R")
Memory Widget
-------------
Update every 13 seconds, append ``MiB`` to 2nd and 3rd returned values
and enables caching.
.. code-block:: lua
memwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.cache(vicious.widgets.mem)
vicious.register(memwidget, vicious.widgets.mem, "$1 ($2MiB/$3MiB)", 13)
HDD Temperature Widget
----------------------
Update every 19 seconds, request the temperature level of ``/dev/sda`` and
append *°C* to the returned value. Since the listening port is not provided,
default one is used.
.. code-block:: lua
hddtempwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(hddtempwidget, vicious.widgets.hddtemp, "${/dev/sda} °C", 19)
Mbox Widget
-----------
Updated every 5 seconds, provide full path to the mbox as argument:
.. code-block:: lua
mboxwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(mboxwidget, vicious.widgets.mbox, "$1", 5,
"/home/user/mail/Inbox")
Battery Widget
--------------
Update every 61 seconds, request the current battery charge level
and displays a progressbar, provides ``BAT0`` as battery ID:
.. code-block:: lua
batwidget = wibox.widget.progressbar()
-- Create wibox with batwidget
batbox = wibox.layout.margin(
wibox.widget{ { max_value = 1, widget = batwidget,
border_width = 0.5, border_color = "#000000",
color = { type = "linear",
from = { 0, 0 },
to = { 0, 30 },
stops = { { 0, "#AECF96" },
{ 1, "#FF5656" } } } },
forced_height = 10, forced_width = 8,
direction = 'east', color = beautiful.fg_widget,
layout = wibox.container.rotate },
1, 1, 3, 3)
-- Register battery widget
vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat, "$2", 61, "BAT0")
CPU Usage Widget
----------------
Update every 3 seconds, feed the graph with total usage percentage
of all CPUs/cores:
.. code-block:: lua
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.register(cpuwidget, vicious.widgets.cpu, "$1", 3)