Hello Leo, Wibox and awful.wibox are less or more the same module. In Awesome 3.4.*, the "wibox" (without awful) refer to the C module provided by the awesome core package while awful.wibox is a wrapper that add features such as wibar (wibox bar) and workarea management.
In Awesome 3.5, "wibox" is a lua library. Awful.wibox still exist, but they are now two different libraries. If your widget is designed for Awesome 3.5, you cannot use it in Awesome 3.4. Your options are to use a 3.4 version of it or upgrade to awesome 3.5 using the Debian experimental packages. If you have other questions, feel free to ask them. Emmanuel On 6 January 2014 05:53, Leo L. Schwab <ew...@ewhac.org> wrote: > Yesterday I grabbed an Awesome gadget to try out. It didn't work. > After several hours of mucking around, I discovered the gadget in question > was using the "wibox" facility (*not* the "awful.wibox" facility). I had > previously assumed these were essentially identical, but reviewing the code > for both clearly reveals they are very different. > > For unknown reasons, the Debian 'awesome' package only includes > "awful.wibox", and "wibox" is nowhere to be found, which means I'd have to > install it by hand. So: > > Is the absence of "wibox" a packaging error/omission? Which wibox > is Awesome going to be using going forward, i.e. should new code be using > "wibox" or "awful.wibox"? > > Schwab > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org. >
