Awesome WM widget tooltip example

Posted by jason on Oct. 22, 2011, 10:58 a.m.
Tags: arch awesome config linux widgets

I thought I'd post a simple example of how to set up a custom tooltip for a widget in Awesome.

This example will add an icon to a wibox, and when the user hovers over it, that machine's internal and external IP addresses will be shown. To do ...


Awesome WM widgets configuration

Posted by jason on July 21, 2011, 3:45 p.m. - 10 comments
Tags: arch awesome config linux widgets

I've been using Awesome WM for about six months, and I love it. The hard part was configuring everything--especially the widgets. Before using Awesome, I'd never seen nor heard of lua--the scripting language that awesome uses for its configuration files--but I am a programmer by trade, so it ...