local os = require("os") local wibox = require("wibox") local awful = require("awful") local naughty = require("naughty") local watch = require("awful.widget.watch") local path_to_icons = "/usr/share/icons/Arc/actions/22/" local home = os.getenv('HOME') local email_widget = wibox.widget.textbox() email_widget:set_font('Play 9') local email_icon = wibox.widget.imagebox() email_icon:set_image(path_to_icons .. "/mail-mark-new.png") local previous_value = 0 watch( "bash -c " .. home .. "/.config/awesome/awesome-wm-widgets/email-widget/count_unread_emails.py", 60, function(widget, stdout, stderr, exitreason, exitcode) local unread_emails_num = tonumber(stdout) or 0 if previous_value < unread_emails_num then previous_value = unread_emails_num show_emails(10) end email_widget:set_text(stdout) if (unread_emails_num > 0) then email_icon:set_image(path_to_icons .. "/mail-mark-unread.png") elseif (unread_emails_num == 0) then email_icon:set_image(path_to_icons .. "/mail-message-new.png") end end ) function show_emails(timeout) awful.spawn.easy_async_with_shell(home .. "/.config/awesome/awesome-wm-widgets/email-widget/read_unread_emails.py", function(stdout, stderr, reason, exit_code) naughty.notify{ text = stdout, title = "Unread Emails", timeout = timeout, width = 400, } end ) end email_icon:connect_signal("button::press", function() show_emails(5) end) return { icon = email_icon, widget = email_widget }