[SOLVED] Question about awesome vicious text widget with fixed width

cnx · 2016-01-12 03:32:18

Hi guys,

I'm currently configuring awesome's vicious widgets. Which bother me is that the text widgets jumping around when the number increase/decrease few digits. From cmtptr's answer from this thread, I finally found the way to get CPU and mem widgets stand still as each of them only require one argument:

-- Create a CPU usage widget
cpuwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(
    cpuwidget,
    vicious.widgets.cpu,
    function (widget, args)
        return (" CPU %3d%% |"):format(args[1])
    end,
    1)

What I'm stucked with right now is the vicious.widget.net - it requires this kind of arg: ${wlp2s2 down_kb}. Currently I'm having this in my rc.lua:

-- Create a network usage widget
netwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(
    netwidget,
    vicious.widgets.net,
    " DOWN ${wlp2s2 down_kb}kB | UP ${wlp2s2 up_kb}kB ",
    1)

Is there any way I can format this widget to have a certain width so that it doesn't jump around? I don't know any Lua but obviously this doesn't work:

function (widget, args)
    return (" DOWN %4skB |"):format(args[{wlp2s2 down_kb}])
end

Sorry for my bad English. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by cnx (2016-01-15 03:28:30)

esa · 2016-01-12 06:27:04

There is a distinct difference between the two.
One returns a variable to work with, the other expects a variable to work with.

AFAIK: To achieve this you would need to change the vicious.netwidget itself to return its output in the proper format.
But then again, i dont know lua well enough.

As a semi-workaround, you can place that at the inner bindings or at the border of central aligned widgets.
Example: The one most right of the upper left widget group.

hth

cnx · 2016-01-12 10:51:45

Thanks for quick respond. I've already done that, but I want to have a more prefect solution.

Stepych · 2016-01-14 15:20:01

From vicious readme:
"When it comes to padding it is also useful to mention how a widget can
be configured to have a fixed width. You can set a fixed width on your
textbox widgets by changing their .width field (by default width is
automatically adapted to text width).

Example

  uptimewidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
  uptimewidget:set_align("right")
  vicious.register(uptimewidget, vicious.widgets.uptime, "$1 $2:$3", 61)
  uptimewidget = wibox.layout.constraint(uptimewidget, "exact", 50, nil)

- forces a fixed width of 50px to the uptime widget, and aligns its
text to the right "

Also in

args[{wlp2s2 down_kb}]

args is array, so index should be integer

Hope that helps.

cnx · 2016-01-15 03:25:34

Thanks. After reading that part of the README, I finally found the solution:

-- Create a network usage widget
netwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(
    netwidget,
    vicious.widgets.net,
    function (widget, args)
        return (" DOWN %6skB | UP %6skB "):format(args["{wlp2s2 down_kb}"],
                                                  args["{wlp2s2 up_kb}"])
    end,
    1)

Last edited by cnx (2016-01-15 03:26:48)

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#1 2016-01-12 03:32:18

[SOLVED] Question about awesome vicious text widget with fixed width

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Re: [SOLVED] Question about awesome vicious text widget with fixed width

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Re: [SOLVED] Question about awesome vicious text widget with fixed width

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Re: [SOLVED] Question about awesome vicious text widget with fixed width

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Re: [SOLVED] Question about awesome vicious text widget with fixed width

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