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dpx

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Registered: 2017-01-09

Posts: 48

Awesome WM key mapping and widgets

I hope it is OK to have two separate questions in one post. I am using XMonad for a long time and decided to switch to Awesome WM.

1. Mapping Mod4-Shift-<minus>?

I used to map (modm .|. shiftMask, xK_minus) and ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_backslash) in XMonad to take screenshots and it worked flawlessly.

Now I try to do the same in Awesome but any combination I tried doesn't work. For instance:
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "-"
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "minus"
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "xK_minus"
etc

So how do I map Mod4-Shift-minus and Mod4-Shift-backslash in Awesome?

2. awful.widget.watch coloring?

I am using awful.widget.watch to show results from a few scripts I am using. Xmobar did allow changing colors for the part of output, by adding <fc=#CCCC00></fc> combo. Looking at docs I can't find any way to specify colors in .watch on Awesome.

Do I have to write custom widget to have colors inside? Can you show me some good and simple starting example if that's the only way?

Thanks!

dpx

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Registered: 2017-01-09

Posts: 48

Re: Awesome WM key mapping and widgets

Answering my own question, using simple green text clock example:

- Create function that updates widget
- Create widget
- Create timer that calls update function
- Add widget to wibox

local function updateTime()
    clockwidget.markup = "<span color=\"#00ff00\">" .. os.date("%a %b %d, %H:%M") .. "</span>"
end
clockwidget = wibox.widget{ markup = '---clock---', align  = 'center', valign = 'center', widget = wibox.widget.textbox }
gears.timer {
    timeout   = 30,
    autostart = true,
    callback  = function()
        updateTime()
    end
}

Now color codes work.

I haven't solved minus key problem yet.