[AWESOME WM] How to define the size of textbox widget

Question

Hi,
I have problem with network widget. When some transfer has place widget change it's value and move all widgets that are place before it. Is there any why to set it's width to some fix value so it have some margin for changes?
To create widget I use vicious.
I create netwidget like:
netupwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(netupwidget, vicious.widgets.net, '<span><b>${eth0 up_kb}</b></span>', 3)
Here is how it's look:
packages are update today:
awesome-git
vicious-git
my rc.lua is:
-- Standard awesome library
require("awful")
require("awful.autofocus")
require("awful.rules")
-- Widget and layout library
require("wibox")
-- Theme handling library
require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
require("naughty")
require("menubar")
-- Widget library
require("vicious")
-- Run at once
require("runonce")
-- {{{ Error handling
-- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
-- another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config)
if awesome.startup_errors then
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, there were errors during startup!",
text = awesome.startup_errors })
end
-- Handle runtime errors after startup
do
local in_error = false
awesome.connect_signal("debug::error", function (err)
-- Make sure we don't go into an endless error loop
if in_error then return end
in_error = true
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, an error happened!",
text = err })
in_error = false
end)
end
beautiful.init("/home/jack/.config/awesome/obscur/theme.lua")
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
--beautiful.init("/home/jack/.config/awesome/daes/theme.lua")
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "lilyterm"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "vim"
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
-- Default modkey.
-- Usually, Mod4 is the key with a logo between Control and Alt.
-- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
-- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
-- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
modkey = "Mod4"
-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
layouts =
awful.layout.suit.tile,
awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
awful.layout.suit.floating,
-- awful.layout.suit.fair,
-- awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
-- awful.layout.suit.spiral,
-- awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
-- awful.layout.suit.max,
-- awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
-- awful.layout.suit.magnifier
-- {{{ Tags
-- Define a tag table which hold all screen tags.
tags =
settings = {
{ names = { " 1 ", " 2 ", " 3 ", " 4 "},
layout = { layouts[1], layouts[1], layouts[1], layouts[1] }
--{ names = { "1", "2", "3" },
-- layout = { layouts[1], layouts[1], layouts[1] }
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Each screen has its own tag table.
tags[s] = awful.tag(tags.settings[s].names, s, tags.settings[s].layout)
end
-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
myawesomemenu = {
{ "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
{ "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awesome.conffile },
{ "restart", awesome.restart },
{ "quit", awesome.quit }
mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
{ "open terminal", terminal },
{ "thunar", "thunar" },
{ "chromium", "chromium" },
{ "shutdown", "sudo halt" }
mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = beautiful.awesome_icon,
menu = mymainmenu })
-- Menubar configuration
menubar.utils.terminal = terminal -- Set the terminal for applications that require it
-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock()
-- My widgets
-- Separator
separator = wibox.widget.imagebox()
separator:set_image("/home/jack/.config/awesome/icons/separator.png")
-- Spacer
spacer = wibox.widget.textbox()
spacer:set_text(" ")
-- Vol status
volimage = wibox.widget.imagebox()
volimage:set_resize(false)
volimage:set_image("/home/jack/.config/awesome/icons/vol.png")
volwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(volwidget, vicious.widgets.volume, "<span><b>$1%</b></span>", 1, 'Master')
-- Memory usage
memimage = wibox.widget.imagebox()
memimage:set_resize(false)
memimage:set_image("/home/jack/.config/awesome/icons/mem.png")
memwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(memwidget, vicious.widgets.mem, "<span><b>$1%</b></span>", 13)
-- Network usage
netupimage = wibox.widget.imagebox()
netupimage:set_resize(false)
netupimage:set_image("/home/jack/.config/awesome/icons/up.png")
netdownimage = wibox.widget.imagebox()
netdownimage:set_resize(false)
netdownimage:set_image("/home/jack/.config/awesome/icons/down.png")
netupwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(netupwidget, vicious.widgets.net, '<span><b>${eth0 up_kb}</b></span>', 3)
netdownwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
netdownwidget.width = 100
vicious.register(netdownwidget, vicious.widgets.net, '<span><b>${eth0 down_kb}</b></span>', 3)
-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
mywibox = {}
mypromptbox = {}
mylayoutbox = {}
mytaglist = {}
mytaglist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
awful.button({ }, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
if c == client.focus then
c.minimized = true
else
if not c:isvisible() then
awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
end
-- This will also un-minimize
-- the client, if needed
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function ()
if instance then
instance:hide()
instance = nil
else
instance = awful.menu.clients({ width=250 })
end
end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end))
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Create a promptbox for each screen
mypromptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt()
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
mylayoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
mylayoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)))
-- Create a taglist widget
mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.filter.all, mytaglist.buttons)
-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(s, awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags, mytasklist.buttons)
-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", screen = s })
-- Widgets that are aligned to the left
local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
left_layout:add(mylauncher)
left_layout:add(mytaglist[s])
left_layout:add(mypromptbox[s])
-- Widgets that are aligned to the right
local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(memimage)
right_layout:add(memwidget)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(volimage)
right_layout:add(volwidget)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(netdownimage)
right_layout:add(netdownwidget)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(netupimage)
right_layout:add(netupwidget)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(mytextclock)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(spacer)
right_layout:add(mylayoutbox[s])
-- Now bring it all together (with the tasklist in the middle)
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_left(left_layout)
layout:set_middle(mytasklist[s])
layout:set_right(right_layout)
mywibox[s]:set_widget(layout)
end
-- {{{ Mouse bindings
root.buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 3, function () mymainmenu:toggle() end),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
-- {{{ Key bindings
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioLowerVolume", function () awful.util.spawn( "amixer set Master 5%-" ) end ),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioRaiseVolume", function () awful.util.spawn( "amixer set Master 5%+" ) end ),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioMute", function () awful.util.spawn( "amixer set Master toggle" ) end ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "j",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "k",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "w", function () mymainmenu:show() end),
-- Layout manipulation
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "j", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "k", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "j", function () awful.screen.focus_relative( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Tab",
function ()
awful.client.focus.history.previous()
if client.focus then
client.focus:raise()
end
end),
-- Standard program
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Return", function () awful.util.spawn(terminal) end),
--awful.key({ modkey, }, "t", function () awful.util.spawn("thunar") end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "e", function () awful.util.spawn("chromium") end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "q", awesome.quit),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "l", function () awful.tag.incmwfact( 0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "h", function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incnmaster( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1) end),
awful.key({ }, "Print", function () awful.util.spawn("scrot -e 'mv $f ~/screenshots/ 2>/dev/null'") end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incncol( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incncol(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "n", awful.client.restore),
-- Prompt
awful.key({ modkey }, "r", function () mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "x",
function ()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run Lua code: " },
mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
awful.util.eval, nil,
awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
end),
-- Menubar
awful.key({ modkey }, "p", function() menubar.show() end)
clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "f", function (c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "c", function (c) c:kill() end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space", awful.client.floating.toggle ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function (c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "o", awful.client.movetoscreen ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "t", function (c) c.ontop = not c.ontop end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "n",
function (c)
-- The client currently has the input focus, so it cannot be
-- minimized, since minimized clients can't have the focus.
c.minimized = true
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "m",
function (c)
c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
c.maximized_vertical = not c.maximized_vertical
end)
-- Compute the maximum number of digit we need, limited to 9
keynumber = 0
for s = 1, screen.count() do
keynumber = math.min(9, math.max(#tags[s], keynumber));
end
-- Bind all key numbers to tags.
-- Be careful: we use keycodes to make it works on any keyboard layout.
-- This should map on the top row of your keyboard, usually 1 to 9.
for i = 1, keynumber do
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewonly(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewtoggle(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.movetotag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.toggletag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end))
end
clientbuttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize))
-- Set keys
root.keys(globalkeys)
-- {{{ Rules
awful.rules.rules = {
-- All clients will match this rule.
{ rule = { },
properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
focus = true,
keys = clientkeys,
buttons = clientbuttons } },
{ rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "pinentry" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Gimp" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Smplayer" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Pidgin" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Skype" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Galculator" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Vlc" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Exe" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "xbmc.bin" },
properties = { floating = true } },
-- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
-- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
-- properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c, startup)
-- Enable sloppy focus
c:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function(c)
if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
client.focus = c
end
end)
if not startup then
-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- awful.client.setslave(c)
-- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
end
end
end)
client.connect_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.connect_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
run("setxkbmap pl -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp")
run("xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources")
run("wmname LG3D")
run("nitrogen --restore")
run("radiotray")
run("parcellite -d")

Answer 1

actually your doing it right
netdownwidget.width = 100
in awesome-git the syntax is different.  i would recommend using the non-git-version, because the most tutorials are for older versions.
without reading the references of the git version,  try something like netdownwidget:set_width(x)
// edit: your icons arnt centered, maybe ur interested in that command:
for x in *.xbm; do convert -fill "#afa72e" -transparent white -colorize 100 -bordercolor transparent -border 8x8 -gravity center -crop 16x16+0+0 "${x}" "${x%.*}.png"; done
Last edited by intrntbrn (2012-04-12 22:11:09)