[SOLVED] Awesome is not recognizing widgets

Question

Hey everybody,
So this is my first (non-virtualbox) arch install. I just switched over from crunchbang. I had awesome installed on crunchbang and used that as my primary window manager. So I saved all of my configs and everything so that I could use them on arch. I got arch installed and then awesome, and awesome works well. I am using it right now. But as soon as I started trying to add widgets it wouldn't let me. Every time I restart it awesome reverts to the rc.lua in /etc/xdg... and gives me a warning message saying:
Oops, there were errors during startup!
/home/nathan/.config/awesome/rc.lua:117: attempt to call global 'widget' (a nil value)
The line it is referring to is this:
separator = widget({ type = "textbox" })
Also, all of the requires at the top currently look like this:
-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
awful.rules = require("awful.rules")
require("awful.autofocus")
-- Widget and layout library
wibox = require("wibox")
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
local naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")
So I tried to google and search the awesome wiki and the arch wiki for how it is done on arch. From everything I have found I am doing it correctly, but I must be missing something. One thought was that it might be a result of the most recent awesome update. I think it was on the 4th. Any ideas?
Last edited by nhare330 (2013-01-09 00:21:05)

Answer 1

Here it is. My rc.lua:
-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
awful.rules = require("awful.rules")
require("awful.autofocus")
-- Widget and layout library
local wibox = require("wibox")
local vicious = require("vicious")
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
local naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")
-- {{{ 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
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/zenburn/theme.lua")
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "lxterminal"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "nano"
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.
local layouts =
awful.layout.suit.floating,
awful.layout.suit.tile,
awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
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
-- {{{ Wallpaper
if beautiful.wallpaper then
for s = 1, screen.count() do
gears.wallpaper.maximized(beautiful.wallpaper, s, true)
end
end
-- {{{ Tags
-- Define a tag table which hold all screen tags.
tags = {
names = { "➊ ", "➋ ", "➌ ", "➍ ", "➎ ", "◌ " },
layout = { layouts[2], layouts[10], layouts[10], layouts[1], layouts[1], layouts[10]
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Each screen has its own tag table.
tags[s] = awful.tag(tags.names, s, tags.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 }
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
-- Separator
separator = wibox.widget.textbox()
separator:set_text(" | ")
-- Spacer
spacer = wibox.widget.textbox()
spacer:set_text(" ")
-- Network usage widget
netwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(netwidget, vicious.widgets.net, '<span color="#CDBC73">${eth0 down_kb}</span> <span color="#7F9F7F">${eth0 up_kb}</span>', 3)
-- Memory widget
memwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
memwidget_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = {memwidget}, })
vicious.register(memwidget, vicious.widgets.mem,
function (widget, args)
memwidget_t:set_text('<span color="#9868B1"> mem: ' ..args[2].. '/' ..args[3].. 'mb \n free: ' ..args[4].. 'mb \n swap: ' ..args[5].. '% > ' ..args[6].. '/' ..args[7].. 'mb \n free: ' ..args[8].. 'mb </span>')
return '<span color="#CDBC73">▣ ' ..args[1].. '%</span>'
end, 3)
-- Cpu widget
cpuwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
cpuwidget_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = {cpuwidget}, })
vicious.register(cpuwidget, vicious.widgets.cpu,
function (widget, args)
cpuwidget_t:set_text('<span color="#9868B1"> cpu0: ' ..args[2].. '% \n cpu1: ' ..args[3].. '% </span>')
return '<span color="#CDBC73">◈ ' ..args[1].. '%</span>'
end, 3)
-- Battery widget
batwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
batwidget_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = {batwidget}, })
vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat,
function (widget, args)
batwidget_t:set_text('<span color="#9868B1"> ' ..args[3].. ' </span>')
return '<span color="#CDBC73">↯ ' ..args[1].. '' ..args[2].. '</span>'
end, 14, "BAT0")
-- Keyboard widget
kbdcfg = {}
kbdcfg.cmd = "setxkbmap"
kbdcfg.layout = { "us", "es" }
-- kbdcfg.us = "<span color='#CDBC73'>us</span>"
-- kbdcfg.es = "<span color='#CDBC73'>es</span>"
kbdcfg.current = 1
kbdcfg.widget = wibox.widget.textbox({ align = "right" })
kbdcfg.widget:set_text( kbdcfg.layout[kbdcfg.current] )
kbdcfg.switch = function ()
kbdcfg.current = kbdcfg.current % #(kbdcfg.layout) + 1
local t = kbdcfg.layout[kbdcfg.current]
kbdcfg.widget:set_text( t )
os.execute( kbdcfg.cmd .. t )
end
kbdcfg.widget:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function () kbdcfg.switch() end )
-- Wifi
wifiwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
wifiwidget_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = {wifiwidget}, })
vicious.register (wifiwidget, vicious.widgets.wifi,
function (widget, args)
wifiwidget_t:set_text('<span color="#9868B1"> ' ..args["{ssid}"].. ' \n mode: ' ..args["{mode}"].. ' \n chan: ' ..args["{chan}"].. ' \n sign: ' ..args["{sign}"].. ' \n rate: ' ..args["{rate}"].. ' </span>')
-- ' \n rate: ' ..args["{rate}"].. ' \n linp: ' ..args["{linp}"]..
return '<span color="#CDBC73">⇄ ' ..args["{link}"].. '%</span>'
end, 7, "wlan0")
-- File System
fswidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
fswidget_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = {fswidget}, })
vicious.register(fswidget, vicious.widgets.fs,
function (widget, args)
fswidget_t:set_text('<span color="#9868B1">used: ' ..args["{/ used_gb}"].. '/' ..args["{/ size_gb}"].. 'gb </span>')
return '<span color="#CDBC73">◕ ' ..args["{/ avail_gb}"].. 'gb</span>'
end, 61)
-- Uptime
uptimewidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
uptimewidget_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = {uptimewidget}, })
vicious.register(uptimewidget, vicious.widgets.uptime,
function (widget, args)
uptimewidget_t:set_text('<span color="#9868B1"> ' ..args[1].. 'd ' ..args[2].. ':' ..args[3].. ' </span>')
return string.format('<span color="#CDBC73">⇑ ' ..args[1].. 'd</span>')
end, 61)
-- Volume Widget
volumecfg = {}
volumecfg.cardid = 0
volumecfg.channel = "Master"
volumecfg.widget = wibox.widget.textbox({ align = "right" })
-- volumecfg_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = { volumecfg.widget },})
-- volumecfg_t:set_text("volume")
-- command must start with a space!
volumecfg.mixercommand = function (command)
local fd = io.popen("amixer -c " .. volumecfg.cardid .. command)
local status = fd:read("*all")
fd:close()
local volume = string.match(status, "(%d?%d?%d)%%")
volume = string.format("% 3d", volume)
status = string.match(status, "%[(o[^%]]*)%]")
if string.find(status, "on", 1, true) then
volume = "<span color='#CDBC73'>◄ " .. volume .. "</span>"
else
volume = "<span color='#CDBC73'>⋪ " .. volume .. "</span>"
end
volumecfg.widget:set_text( volume )
end
volumecfg.update = function ()
volumecfg.mixercommand(" sget " .. volumecfg.channel)
end
volumecfg.up = function ()
volumecfg.mixercommand(" sset " .. volumecfg.channel .. " 1%+")
end
volumecfg.down = function ()
volumecfg.mixercommand(" sset " .. volumecfg.channel .. " 1%-")
end
volumecfg.toggle = function ()
volumecfg.mixercommand(" sset " .. volumecfg.channel .. " toggle")
end
volumecfg.widget:buttons({
button({ }, 4, function () volumecfg.up() end),
button({ }, 5, function () volumecfg.down() end),
button({ }, 1, function () volumecfg.toggle() end)
volumecfg.update()
-- Date widget
datewidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(datewidget, vicious.widgets.date, '<span color="#D8D8D8"> %a. %b %d, %l:%M %p </span>', 5)
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock({ align = "right" })
-- Calendar widget to attach to the textclock
require('calendar2')
calendar2.addCalendarToWidget(datewidget)
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock()
-- 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, function(t) awful.tag.viewnext(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function(t) awful.tag.viewprev(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end)
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
if c == client.focus then
c.minimized = true
else
-- Without this, the following
-- :isvisible() makes no sense
c.minimized = false
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 = "top", 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()
if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
right_layout:add(mytextclock)
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({ modkey, }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Down",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Up",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "a", function () mymainmenu:show() end),
-- Layout manipulation
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "Down", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "Up", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Down", function () awful.screen.focus_relative( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Up", 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, "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({ 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, }, "w", 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 = awful.client.focus.filter,
keys = clientkeys,
buttons = clientbuttons } },
{ rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "pinentry" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "gimp" },
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
local titlebars_enabled = false
if titlebars_enabled and (c.type == "normal" or c.type == "dialog") then
-- Widgets that are aligned to the left
local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
left_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.iconwidget(c))
-- Widgets that are aligned to the right
local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.floatingbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.stickybutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.ontopbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.closebutton(c))
-- The title goes in the middle
local title = awful.titlebar.widget.titlewidget(c)
title:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function()
client.focus = c
c:raise()
awful.mouse.client.move(c)
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function()
client.focus = c
c:raise()
awful.mouse.client.resize(c)
end)
-- Now bring it all together
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_left(left_layout)
layout:set_right(right_layout)
layout:set_middle(title)
awful.titlebar(c):set_widget(layout)
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)
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Last edited by nhare330 (2013-01-18 13:59:40)