local wibox = require("wibox") local awful = require("awful") rateWidget = wibox.widget.textbox() -- DBus (Command are sent to Dbus, which prevents Awesome from freezŅƒ) sleepTimerDbus = timer ({timeout = 1800}) sleepTimerDbus:connect_signal ("timeout", function () awful.util.spawn_with_shell("dbus-send --session --dest=org.naquadah.awesome.awful /com/console/rate com.console.rate.rateWidget string:$(python ~/.config/awesome/rates/rates.py)" ) end) sleepTimerDbus:start() sleepTimerDbus:emit_signal("timeout") dbus.request_name("session", "com.console.rate") dbus.add_match("session", "interface='com.console.rate', member='rateWidget' " ) dbus.connect_signal("com.console.rate", function (...) local data = {...} local dbustext = data[2] rateWidget:set_text(dbustext) end)