local awful = require("awful") local naughty = require("naughty") local wibox = require("wibox") local watch = require("awful.widget.watch") local USERNAME = os.getenv("USER") batteryarc_widget = wibox.widget { { id = "txt", text = "1", font = "Play 5", widget = wibox.widget.textbox }, max_value = 1, rounded_edge = true, thickness = 2, start_angle = 4.71238898, -- 2pi*3/4 forced_height = 16, forced_width = 16, bg = "#ffffff11", paddings = 2, widget = wibox.container.arcchart, set_value = function(self, value) self.value = value end, } watch( "acpi", 10, function(widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) local batteryType local _, status, charge_str, time = string.match(stdout, '(.+): (%a+), (%d?%d%d)%%,? ?.*') local charge = tonumber(charge_str) widget.value = charge / 100 widget.txt.text = charge end, batteryarc_widget ) -- Popup with battery info -- One way of creating a pop-up notification - naughty.notify local notification function show_battery_status() awful.spawn.easy_async([[bash -c 'acpi']], function(stdout, _, _, _) notification = naughty.notify{ text = stdout, title = "Battery status", timeout = 5, hover_timeout = 0.5, width = 200, } end ) end batteryarc_widget:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function() show_battery_status() end) batteryarc_widget:connect_signal("mouse::leave", function() naughty.destroy(notification) end) -- Alternative to naughty.notify - tooltip. You can compare both and choose the preferred one --battery_popup = awful.tooltip({objects = {battery_widget}}) -- To use colors from beautiful theme put -- following lines in rc.lua before require("battery"): -- beautiful.tooltip_fg = beautiful.fg_normal -- beautiful.tooltip_bg = beautiful.bg_normal --[[ Show warning notification ]] function show_battery_warning() naughty.notify{ icon = "/home/" .. USERNAME .. "/.config/awesome/nichosi.png", icon_size=100, text = "Huston, we have a problem", title = "Battery is dying", timeout = 5, hover_timeout = 0.5, position = "bottom_right", bg = "#F06060", fg = "#EEE9EF", width = 300, } end