Well that is a start in the right direction at least thanks On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Alexander Yakushev <yakushev.a...@gmail.com > wrote:
> I don't know is there something like this in awful or anywhere, but I've > written my own implementation of this feature. Take a look at it here: > > https://github.com/alexander-**yakushev/awesompd/blob/master/** > awesompd.lua<https://github.com/alexander-yakushev/awesompd/blob/master/awesompd.lua> > > Lines from 985 to 1026. It is ugly as hell but works pretty solidly. > Here's how it looks like: https://awesome.naquadah.org/** > w/images/Awesompd_example_4.**png<https://awesome.naquadah.org/w/images/Awesompd_example_4.png> > > Regards, > Alexander > > > On 11/21/2011 04:13 PM, Adam Jimerson wrote: > >> I am wanting to write a Awesome widget that allows for searching, if one >> doesn't already exists for this. My goal is I want to be able to hit a key >> combo, something like modkey + s because it is currently unused on my >> system, and it opens up a promptbox much like modkey+r or modkey+x, then >> takes the user input and uses as the search terms for the system locate >> command (or a Lua module if this exits), will dig further into this idea >> when I get there. Looking at my rc.lua file at the two examples of using >> promptbox it is unclear how the user input could captured in a way that it >> could be handed off to an external Lua script. The run command passed the >> input directly to run() which is not useful to me and the "Run Lua code" is >> just as confusing how it takes the input and passes it to awful.util.eval. >> >> If there is any documentation or pointers on doing this or something >> similar please point me to them. >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to > awesome-unsubscribe@naquadah.**org<awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org> > . >
