awesome-upower-battery

A widget to display the current battery and power supply status in awesome wm using upower, which is used by most desktop environments. This is very efficient as it uses dbus signals from upower instead of polling. The configuration is similiar to the well-known lain widgets and can be used as a drop-in replacement (in most cases) for the lain battery widget. Works flawless with multiple batteries.

Requirements

AwesomeWM-4.0 with dbus support enabled

upower-0.99

UPowerGlib-1.0

Installation

Clone the repo into your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome directory and add the dependency to your rc.lua.

cd "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome"
git clone https://github.com/berlam/awesome-upower-battery.git awesome-upower-battery

local battery = require("awesome-upower-battery")

Configuration

You can customize the apperance inside your rc.lua. This widgets exposes some fields.

settings can use the bat_now table, which contains the following strings:

• status, battery status ("N/A", "Discharging", "Charging", "Full");
• ac_status, AC-plug flag (0 if cable is unplugged, 1 if plugged, "N/A" otherwise);
• perc, total charge percentage (integer between 0 and 100 or "N/A");
• time, time remaining until charge if charging, until discharge if discharging (HH:SS string or "N/A");
• watt, battery watts.

Configure the widget with the settings property.

local bat = battery(
        {
                settings = function(bat_now, widget)
                        if bat_now.status == "Discharging" then
                                        widget:set_markup(string.format("%3d", bat_now.perc) .. "% ")
                                        return
                        end
                        -- We must be on AC
                        baticon:set_image(beautiful.ac)
                        widget:set_markup(bat_now.time .. " ")
                end
        }
)

Add the bat.widget to your wibar.

Credits

This plugin was created by Matthias Berla.

License

See LICENSE.