------------------------------------------------- -- 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 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 1" -- "xbacklight -inc 5" local DEC_BRIGHTNESS_CMD = "light -U 1" -- "xbacklight -dec 5" local brightness_text = wibox.widget.textbox() brightness_text:set_font('Play 9') local brightness_icon = wibox.widget { { image = PATH_TO_ICON, 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, } local update_widget = function(widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) 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 spawn.easy_async(GET_BRIGHTNESS_CMD, function(stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) update_widget(brightness_widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) end) end) watch(GET_BRIGHTNESS_CMD, 1, update_widget, brightness_text) return brightness_widget