bling VS awesome-wm-widgets

I wonder if there's a library that has handled something like that. Bling maybe?

Widgets are typically obtained by either using widget collections, such a Vicious or Bling, by "extracting" them from other people's repos or by just writing them yourself. Note that, to customize awesome, you really do want to learn how to use the widget system, as otherwise, you'd be missing out on one of awesome's greatest strengths. Also, no, it doesn't matter which distro you use. They are almost always distro independent (except for maybe something like a package update notifier or something, as that really can't be done distro independently). It does however matter whether you use the stable release (4.3 as of now) or the current git master, as stable is about 3 years old while the git master is in very active development. Some of the cooler widgets may only work on the git master branch.

Javacafe01 - evidently he has archived his repo, guess NixOS is getting to him. He is also the primary developer behind Bling which also implements Rubato, but in such a way as to take esoteric to new heights if you aren't used to making sense of the big foot scat that is awesomewm configurations.

About bling library bugs and improvements you can insert the issue directly to github project: https://github.com/BlingCorp/bling/issues

There is an external library for Awesome called Bling that implements scratchpads. I've never used i3 so I'm just assuming they are similar. Here is a link to the docs for the Bling scratchpads.

https://github.com/BlingCorp/bling/blob/master/layout/vertical.lua works for me

This question is asked from time to time. Recently I seen some very good try to implement it. I think it was in Bling. Check the tag preview widget there.

Bling

I'm trying to get the most out of my OS (Arch with X11 and Awesomewm), but I'm stuck with the widgets. I would like to create/use some utilities like an interactive calendar, small TODO list, dropdown menu, etc. but using the awesomewm widgets is too difficult and limiting. I found eww but it seems as difficult as the former widgets.

Hello, I am new to Linux (using Mint rn) and very new to Awesome. I installed Pavel Makhov's awesome-wm-widgets pack since that seems very cool and widely used. While the arc portion of the widget works perfectly fine, the actual charge isn't showing in the middle of the arc. Here's what I mean.

I am a noob to awesome wm, and have tried several times to get the widgets from https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets to work. I am not understanding the directions, and whenever I try it always throws me errors that i cannot figure out. Can anyone give me detailed instructions on how to setup these up?

Check tips & tricks section here, there are two tutorials on widget creation: https://pavelmakhov.com/awesome-wm-widgets/ You can also have a look at the source code of https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets

> What widgets are you referring to that you found to have leaks?

I'll cite myself here: https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/issues/11...

I've had similar issues wherever GTK interacts with awful.spawn . Hence my GTK + awful.spawn.easy_async = extremely leak-prone

Here's another affected library [1]: https://github.com/deficient/volume-control

[1]: No bug under the main repo because they're considering it as a framework bug. See here for discussion: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/3584#issuecommen...

You can try this widget: https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/tree/master/logout-menu-widget

u/BaigGam3rss I still have some work to do to make my own widgets but you probably start with the documentation [1][2]. And then look at some other projects that use Awesome API to build widgets (ex: [3][4][5][6][7]).

------------------------------------------------- -- Logout Menu Widget for Awesome Window Manager -- More details could be found here: -- https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/tree/master/logout-menu-widget -- @author Pavel Makhov -- @copyright 2020 Pavel Makhov ------------------------------------------------- local awful = require("awful") local wibox = require("wibox") local gears = require("gears") local beautiful = require("beautiful") local naughty = require("naughty") local HOME = os.getenv('HOME') local ICON_DIR = HOME .. '/.config/awesome/awesome-wm-widgets/logout-menu-widget/icons/' local logout_menu_widget = wibox.widget { { { image = ICON_DIR .. 'power_w.svg', resize = true, id = "iimage", widget = wibox.widget.imagebox, }, margins = 4, layout = wibox.container.margin }, shape = function(cr, width, height) gears.shape.rounded_rect(cr, width, height, 4) end, widget = wibox.container.background, } local popup = awful.popup { ontop = true, visible = false, shape = function(cr, width, height) gears.shape.rounded_rect(cr, width, height, 4) end, border_width = 1, border_color = beautiful.bg_focus, maximum_width = 400, offset = { y = 5 }, widget = {} } local function worker(user_args) local rows = { layout = wibox.layout.fixed.vertical } local args = user_args or {} local font = args.font or beautiful.font local onlogout = args.onlogout or function () awesome.quit() end local onlock = args.onlock or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("i3lock") end local onreboot = args.onreboot or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("reboot") end local onsuspend = args.onsuspend or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("systemctl suspend") end local onpoweroff = args.onpoweroff or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("shutdown now") end local menu_items = { { name = 'Log out', icon_name = 'log-out.svg', command = onlogout }, { name = 'Lock', icon_name = 'lock.svg', command = onlock }, { name = 'Reboot', icon_name = 'refresh-cw.svg', command = onreboot }, { name = 'Suspend', icon_name = 'moon.svg', command = onsuspend }, { name = 'Power off', icon_name = 'power.svg', command = onpoweroff }, } for _, item in ipairs(menu_items) do local row = wibox.widget { { { { image = ICON_DIR .. item.icon_name, resize = false, widget = wibox.widget.imagebox }, { text = item.name, font = font, widget = wibox.widget.textbox }, spacing = 12, layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal }, margins = 8, layout = wibox.container.margin }, bg = beautiful.bg_normal, widget = wibox.container.background } row:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function(c) c:set_bg(beautiful.bg_focus) end) row:connect_signal("mouse::leave", function(c) c:set_bg(beautiful.bg_normal) end) local old_cursor, old_wibox row:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function() local wb = mouse.current_wibox old_cursor, old_wibox = wb.cursor, wb wb.cursor = "hand1" end) row:connect_signal("mouse::leave", function() if old_wibox then old_wibox.cursor = old_cursor old_wibox = nil end end) --row:buttons(awful.util.table.join(awful.button({}, 1, function() -- popup.visible = not popup.visible -- item.command() --end))) row:add_button(awful.button({}, 1, function() popup.visible = not popup.visible item.command() end)) table.insert(rows, row) end popup:setup(rows) -- logout_menu_widget:buttons( -- awful.util.table.join( -- awful.button({}, 1, function() -- if popup.visible then -- popup.visible = not popup.visible -- logout_menu_widget:set_bg('#00000000') -- else -- popup:move_next_to(mouse.current_widget_geometry) -- logout_menu_widget:set_bg(beautiful.bg_focus) -- end -- end) -- ) -- ) logout_menu_widget:add_button( awful.button({}, 1, function() naughty.notify({text = "button pressed"}) if popup.visible then naughty.notify({text = "visible"}) popup.visible = not popup.visible logout_menu_widget:set_bg('#00000000') else naughty.notify({text = "invisible"}) popup:move_next_to(mouse.current_widget_geometry) logout_menu_widget:set_bg(beautiful.bg_focus) end end, function() naughty.notify({text = "button released"}) end) ) return logout_menu_widget end return setmetatable(logout_menu_widget, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })