AwesomeWM config snippets
My favourite windowmanager is awesomewm. I use it on all my workplaces (notebook, desktop, at work).
Some changes from my config
bind ctrl-alt-l to lock screen
awful.key({ "Mod1", "Control" }, "l", function () awful.util.spawn("xscreensaver-command -lock") end)
(simple) battery widget using Vicious .
baticon = widget({ type = "imagebox" }) baticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_bat) batwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" }) vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat, function (widget, args) return "<b>" .. args[1] .. "</b>" end, 10, "BAT1")
Other battery widgets with Vicious: http://git.sysphere.org/vicious/tree/contrib
Volume widget using Vicious
volicon = widget({ type = "imagebox" }) volicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_vol) volwidget = widget({type = "textbox", name = "volwidget"}) function volume(command,widget) if command == "update" then local fd = io.popen("amixer sget Master") local status = fd:read("*all") fd:close() local volume = tonumber(string.match(status, "(%d?%d?%d)%%")) if (string.find(status, "off", 1, true)) then ret = "<b>Muted</b>" else ret = "♫ <b>" .. volume .. "</b>" end widget.text = ret elseif command == "raise" then awful.util.spawn("amixer set Master 3%+ &") volume("update",volwidget) elseif command == "lower" then awful.util.spawn("amixer set Master 3%- &") volume("update",volwidget) elseif command == "toggle" then awful.util.spawn("amixer set Master toggle &") volume("update",volwidget) end end volume("update",volwidget) -- Autorefresh every minute awful.hooks.timer.register(60, function () volume("update", volwidget) end)
There are lots of other solutions, i.e. http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Farhavens_volume_widget and http://jasonmaur.com/awesome-wm-widgets-configuration/
register audio keys on notebook keyboard (using the volume function above)