Awesome breaks after defining my own widget variables (textboxes, etc)

VeXe · 2013-02-16 15:56:44

Hi, I'm on Arch X64. Running Awesome 3.5 trying to customize it, just wanna add some widgets (specifically launchers).

In my rc.lua file, whenever I add something, like "mytextbox = widget ({ type = "textbox" })" Awesome breaks on restarting it! I can't even log in anymore, each time I type my user/pass, I get in for just a moment, and then awesome quits back to the login (which is gdm in my case)

Note that I read the awesome wiki on widgets, it didn't say to require anything, but just in case, I downloaded and required vicious, like: "vicious = require ("vicious")" didn't change anything.

Why is this happening? am I missing some 'require's? How can I successfully add my widgets?

And one more thing, I've been watching a lot of vids on this thing, most of them have awesome 3.4, a lot of things in the rc.lua file are now different. Like for example, the way they used to add widgets, was by adding them to an array. in 3.5, there's a section for adding stuff to the right/left/center of the taskbar (or whatever it's called)
Can I still add widgets via the 3.4 way? (making an array, and looping through them)

Please help, getting frustrated here! Thanks a bunch!

Stebalien · 2013-02-16 16:16:21

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Awesome_3.4_to_3.5

floby · 2013-02-18 12:27:00

VeXe wrote:

Hi, I'm on Arch X64. Running Awesome 3.5 trying to customize it, just wanna add some widgets (specifically launchers).
In my rc.lua file, whenever I add something, like "mytextbox = widget ({ type = "textbox" })" Awesome breaks on restarting it! I can't even log in anymore, each time I type my user/pass, I get in for just a moment, and then awesome quits back to the login (which is gdm in my case)
Note that I read the awesome wiki on widgets, it didn't say to require anything, but just in case, I downloaded and required vicious, like: "vicious = require ("vicious")" didn't change anything.
Why is this happening? am I missing some 'require's? How can I successfully add my widgets?
And one more thing, I've been watching a lot of vids on this thing, most of them have awesome 3.4, a lot of things in the rc.lua file are now different. Like for example, the way they used to add widgets, was by adding them to an array. in 3.5, there's a section for adding stuff to the right/left/center of the taskbar (or whatever it's called)
Can I still add widgets via the 3.4 way? (making an array, and looping through them)
Please help, getting frustrated here! Thanks a bunch!

mytextbox = widget ({ type = "textbox" })"
is now
wibox.widget.textbox()

The code changed, the good man above posted the relevant documentation for this.

Antoine · 2013-02-18 12:52:32

Install Vicious

At the top of your rc.lua add:

local vicious = require("vicious")

And then take a look at this article where I set up a simple vicious widget when I was migrating to 3.5

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#1 2013-02-16 15:56:44

Awesome breaks after defining my own widget variables (textboxes, etc)

#2 2013-02-16 16:16:21

Re: Awesome breaks after defining my own widget variables (textboxes, etc)

#3 2013-02-18 12:27:00

Re: Awesome breaks after defining my own widget variables (textboxes, etc)

#4 2013-02-18 12:52:32

Re: Awesome breaks after defining my own widget variables (textboxes, etc)

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