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xworld

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Registered: 2012-05-27

Posts: 153

[SOLVED]Awesomw WM widget:set_bg() isn't applying.

Hello everybody. I'm running awesome 3.5 on Arch(obviously), and I'm attempting to set background colors for some of my widgets, but I think I might be using the wrong syntax(i.e. awesome 3 instead of 3.5). Here's what I have in my rc.lua:

memwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(memwidget, vicious.widgets.mem, "$1%", 13)
memwidget:set_bg("#ccccc7")

When I save and restart awesome I get the error:

rc.lua:170: attempt to call field 'set_bg' (a nil value)

I got my information on how to do this from here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.wi … esome/9763. Obviously I'm incorrect in some way, I just don't know how.

EDIT: My mistake I skimmed a bit too much. Here's what got it to work:

memwidget_text = wibox.widget.textbox()
memwidget = wibox.widget.background()
memwidget:set_widget(memwidget_text)
vicious.register(memwidget_text, vicious.widgets.mem, "$1%", 13)
memwidget:set_bg("#ccccc7")

Last edited by xworld (2015-02-03 19:06:27)

nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,548

Re: [SOLVED]Awesomw WM widget:set_bg() isn't applying.

I think that's old syntax.

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xworld

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Registered: 2012-05-27

Posts: 153

Re: [SOLVED]Awesomw WM widget:set_bg() isn't applying.

I fixed it soon after posting. Thank you.