On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Manuel Kasser <manuel.kas...@arcor.de>wrote:
> Hi,
> I again need your advice.
> The situation is, I have two machines running awesome and I want to
> externalize every machine-specific part of my rc.lua so I just have to
> sync my rc.lua upon changes and do not have to adapt it.
>
> Part of this plan is that both computers shall use a different set of
> widgets (e. g. I don't need a battery widget on a stationary system).
>
> mspec is the file with the machine-specific parts of code, the widgets
> itself are working well and are created inside the mspec-Methods.
>
> At the moment, my wibox is constructed like this:
> --variant 1:
> mywibox[s].widgets = {
> {
> --launcher, taglist, promptbox
> },
> mylayoutbox[s],
> mytextclock,
> --MyWidgets
> mspec.volwidget(), --Volwidget
> mspec.netwidget(), --Netwidget
> mspec.memtxtw(), --Memory-Widget
> mspec.cputxtw(), --CPU-Widget
>
You can change these methods to return nil if you don't want the widget to
appear.
Or if you want to move that logic into rc.lua, you can use variables:
myvolwidget = <condition> and mspec.volwidget() or nil
> --EndMyWidgets
> s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
> mytasklist[s],
> layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
> }
>
> My idea was that I want to get an array of widgets by calling
> mspec.getWidgets() --returns { volwidget , memorywidget , cpuwidget }
> and cycle over this array and insert these widgets into my wibox.
> I tried:
> --variant 2:
> wid = mspec.getWidgets()
>
> mywibox[s].widgets = {
> {
> --launcher, taglist, promptbox
> },
> mylayoutbox[s],
> mytextclock,
> --MyWidgets
> wid,
> --EndMyWidgets
> s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
> mytasklist[s],
> layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
> }
>
> The problem with variant 2 is that the widgets aren't placed where the
> widgets were placed in variant 1, between mytextclock and mytasklist,
> but between the first array with the taglist and the promptbox and the
> tasklist.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I could implement this intelligently
> (preferred by using "mspec.getWidgets()" and its array)? A for-loop to
> cycle over the array does not work inside an array, of course.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Manuel
>
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