local wibox = require("wibox") local awful = require("awful") local gears = require("gears") local watch = require("awful.widget.watch") brightness_widget = wibox.widget.textbox() brightness_widget:set_font('Play 9') brightness_icon = wibox.widget { { image = "/usr/share/icons/Arc/status/symbolic/display-brightness-symbolic.svg", resize = false, widget = wibox.widget.imagebox, }, layout = wibox.container.margin(brightness_icon, 0, 0, 3) } watch( "xbacklight -get", 1, function(widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) local brightness_level = tonumber(string.format("%.0f", stdout)) brightness_widget:set_text(brightness_level) end )