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COMMUNISTCHINA

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Registered: 2008-06-16

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awesomewm - volume, battery, wifi

After searching the awesome wiki, I found this image:

I read how to make a volume bar and bind keys to have volume up/down. So no problem there.
There is a section on widgets with amazing that says how to get battery, but not text, like in the picture. How is that accomplished?
I think everything else is also in the wiki. I just don't understand the syntax of whatever language is used for awesome/amazing.

And what wifi tool should I use? I have seen a lot of people use netcfg2, but I don't know anything about it.
What I need is:
1) auto detect the networks
2) easily change networks
3) not have to make a profile for each network manually
4) a way to change networks in awesomewm, I guess. If it fits the other 3 criteria, I can make an exception.

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ThomasBisset

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From: Nairn, Scotland

Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 22

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Re: awesomewm - volume, battery, wifi

Not an expert, but that looks like Conky to me:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky

kclive18

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From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 219

Re: awesomewm - volume, battery, wifi

Here is a detailed thread (sorry its on Ubuntu Forums, but that's where it was...) on getting wireless in Conky:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=563401

You can change networks in CLI using the wireless tools.  It's really not that tricky at all.

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