Hi, I'm running awesome v3.5.5 and your snippet below works for me. Are you sure that you're adding the margin widget to the wibox instead of the barwidget?
right_layout:add(marginbox) A small screenshot to make sure this is the desired output: http://i.imgur.com/JoPtvM1.png / Eero On 04/26/2014 11:46 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > Behaviour is the same whether I use ticks or height/width > specification. The margin layout wibox did not give me margin padding > either when applied to the barwidget... > > Eero - you say it works for you. While your widget specifications are > as per 3.5 usage, the margin layout wrapping is 3.4 usage style. Are > you using the margin box wrapping in 3.5? > -- Mohan Sundaram > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Mohan Sundaram <mohan....@gmail.com> wrote: >> I tried this. >> -- Create a progress bar widget >> barwidget = awful.widget.progressbar() >> barwidget:set_color("#00ff00") >> barwidget:set_background_color("#000000") >> barwidget:set_border_color("#00ff00") >> barwidget:set_vertical(false) >> barwidget:set_width(40) >> barwidget:set_height(12) >> barwidget:set_value(0.5) >> >> -- const = wibox.layout.constraint() >> -- const:set_strategy("exact") >> -- const:set_height(8) >> -- const:set_width(40) >> -- const:set_widget(barwidget) >> >> marginbox = wibox.layout.margin() >> marginbox:set_margins(5) >> marginbox:set_widget(barwidget) >> >> No change in how the widget appears. >> -- Mohan Sundaram >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Eero-Antero Säisä <e...@jakolasku.fi> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> You can wrap the progressbar inside wibox.layout.margin which will give >>> you a nice margin. Honestly I never read the API documentation an I'm >>> just guessing how things work. Would be nice if someone could tell why >>> the height property in progressbar has no effect. Maybe it has something >>> to do with the layout? I don't know. >>> >>> However here's the code that works for me: >>> >>> local volumebar = awful.widget.progressbar() >>> volumebar:set_background_color(beautiful.bg_focus) >>> volumebar:set_color(beautiful.fg_focus) >>> volumebar:set_ticks(true) >>> volumebar:set_ticks_size(5) >>> volumebar:set_width(59) >>> >>> -- item, left, right, top, bottom? can't find the constructor in the API >>> documentation so I'm just guessing.. >>> local widget = wibox.layout.margin(volumebar, 5, 5, 6, 6) >>> >>> / Eero >>> >>> On 04/25/2014 05:07 PM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: >>>> Using Awesome 3.5.2 on Ubuntu 14.04. >>>> >>>> a) The API document seems to describe older API format where widget >>>> name is passed as an argument. Is there a place where the new format >>>> is described? >>>> >>>> b) Trying to use the progressbar widget as under >>>> >>>> barwidget=awful.widget.progressbar() >>>> barwidget:set_vertical(false) >>>> barwidget:set_width(40) >>>> barwidget:set_height(8) >>>> barwidget:set_border_color("#00ff00") >>>> barwidget:set_background_color("#000000") >>>> barwidget:set_color("#00ff00") >>>> barwidget:set_value(0.5) >>>> >>>> Added widget in the wibox >>>> right_layout:add(barwidget) >>>> >>>> I'm getting a progressbar box covering the full height of the systray >>>> wibox. Changing the height has no effect. Changing all othe >>>> rparameters using Mod+x to run lua code works as documented. >>>> >>>> Where am I making the mistake? Or is this a bug? >>>> >>>> -- Mohan Sundaram >>>> > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
