X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/blobdiff_plain/2098a3ef16f6f435509adde00fc7a37794a140d2..079729b357a14fdf40356dbbb66180bf237db1d5:/Widgets.md diff --git a/Widgets.md b/Widgets.md index 7130cc3..981e4e1 100644 --- a/Widgets.md +++ b/Widgets.md @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ Every widget is output by a `function`. -Unless otherwise expressly noted, `function` returns a `wibox.widget.textbox`. - -This is said because, for some widgets, `function` returns a table to be used for notification and update purposes. +For some widgets, `function` returns a `wibox.widget.textbox`, for others a table to be used for notification and update purposes. Every widget may take either a table or a list of variables as argument. @@ -12,17 +10,19 @@ To markup the textbox, call `widget:set_markup(...)` within `settings`. You can feed `set_markup` with predefined arguments, see the sections for all the details. -`widget` is a textbox, so you can also threat it like any other `wibox.widget.textbox`. +`widget` is a textbox, so you can threat it like any other `wibox.widget.textbox`. Here follows an example: mycpu = lain.widgets.cpu({ timeout = 4, settings = function() - widget:set_markup("Cpu " .. usage) + widget:set_markup("Cpu " .. cpu_now.usage) end }) +If you want to see more complex applications, check [awesome-copycats](https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats). + --- - [alsa](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsa)