------------------------------------------------- -- Brightness Widget for Awesome Window Manager -- Shows the brightness level of the laptop display -- More details could be found here: -- https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/tree/master/brightness-widget -- @author Pavel Makhov -- @copyright 2017 Pavel Makhov ------------------------------------------------- local wibox = require("wibox") local watch = require("awful.widget.watch") --local GET_BRIGHTNESS_CMD = "xbacklight -get" local GET_BRIGHTNESS_CMD = "light -G" local path_to_icons = "/usr/share/icons/Arc/status/symbolic/" local brightness_text = wibox.widget.textbox() brightness_text:set_font('Play 9') local brightness_icon = wibox.widget { { image = path_to_icons .. "display-brightness-symbolic.svg", resize = false, widget = wibox.widget.imagebox, }, top = 3, widget = wibox.container.margin } local brightness_widget = wibox.widget { brightness_icon, brightness_text, layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal, } watch( GET_BRIGHTNESS_CMD, 1, function(widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) local brightness_level = tonumber(string.format("%.0f", stdout)) widget:set_text(" " .. brightness_level .. "%") end, brightness_text ) return brightness_widget