X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/awesome.git/blobdiff_plain/540a1af279deefcb17891801835c7d9d84e90b2a..eabc5b4991db5cb4dc85551a5814a10f633f72b1:/Widgets.md?ds=inline diff --git a/Widgets.md b/Widgets.md index 6e6d361..c0a7dd6 100644 --- a/Widgets.md +++ b/Widgets.md @@ -2,7 +2,20 @@ Every widget is output by a `function`. Unless otherwise expressly noted, `function` returns a `wibox.widget.textbox`. -We say this because, for some widget, `function` return a table to be used for notification and update purposes. +This is said because, for some widgets, `function` returns a table to be used for notification and update purposes. + +Every widget may take either a table or a list of variables as argument. + +If it takes a table, you have to define a function variable called `settings` in it: with this you can markup textboxes using predefined variables and do whatever customization you want. + +Here follows a simple example, see the sections for all the details: + + mycpu = lain.widgets.cpu({ + timeout = 4, + settings = function() + widget:set_markup("Cpu " .. usage) + end + }) - [alsa](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsa) - [alsabar](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/alsabar)