------------------------------------------------- -- 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 2017-2019 Pavel Makhov ------------------------------------------------- local wibox = require("wibox") local watch = require("awful.widget.watch") local spawn = require("awful.spawn") local PATH_TO_ICON = "/usr/share/icons/Arc/status/symbolic/display-brightness-symbolic.svg" local GET_BRIGHTNESS_CMD = "light -G" -- "xbacklight -get" local INC_BRIGHTNESS_CMD = "light -A 5" -- "xbacklight -inc 5" local DEC_BRIGHTNESS_CMD = "light -U 5" -- "xbacklight -dec 5" local brightness_widget = {} local function worker(user_args) local args = user_args or {} local get_brightness_cmd = args.get_brightness_cmd or GET_BRIGHTNESS_CMD local inc_brightness_cmd = args.inc_brightness_cmd or INC_BRIGHTNESS_CMD local dec_brightness_cmd = args.dec_brightness_cmd or DEC_BRIGHTNESS_CMD local path_to_icon = args.path_to_icon or PATH_TO_ICON local font = args.font or 'Play 9' local timeout = args.timeout or 1 local brightness_text = wibox.widget.textbox() brightness_text:set_font(font) local brightness_icon = wibox.widget { { image = path_to_icon, resize = false, widget = wibox.widget.imagebox, }, top = 3, widget = wibox.container.margin } brightness_widget = wibox.widget { brightness_icon, brightness_text, layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal, } local update_widget = function(widget, stdout, _, _, _) local brightness_level = tonumber(string.format("%.0f", stdout)) widget:set_text(" " .. brightness_level .. "%") end brightness_widget:connect_signal("button::press", function(_, _, _, button) if (button == 4) then spawn(inc_brightness_cmd, false) elseif (button == 5) then spawn(dec_brightness_cmd, false) end end) watch(get_brightness_cmd, timeout, update_widget, brightness_text) return brightness_widget end return setmetatable(brightness_widget, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })