Honestly, I hate lua. I love python, but lua isn't that similar to python. With that said, I've learned enough lua to customize my config and most of the harder logic I typically outsource to python or bash. As mentioned earlier, awesome's ability to spawn a script as if it's run from terminal is very handy. I often have lua trigger a python/bash script (which does the actual work) and then process its output to display via naughty (awesome's notification system) or the systray. I do this for temperature widget, volume control, google calendar sync widget, as well as a few others.
With that said, there are a number of widgets already written in lua you can just use for these common tasks: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/User_Contributed_Widgets On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Ray Andrews <rayandr...@eastlink.ca> wrote: > On 09/08/2015 11:29 PM, Kristoffer Ryhl-Johansen wrote: > >> >> Awesome and i3 both have plain text configs, remember that lua code is >> written in plain text :). >> > True! Even 'plain text' config must have syntax. As long as lua isn't > too horrible, like Java :-( > I'm fluent in C. > > I don't know of the i3 community, but I know that the awesome community is >> really nice. >> > > Yes, I've had so much help already, and I'm not even a user yet. I will > get my sh** together, and give it a go. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org. >
