Disk Usage Widget

This widget is written for awesome 2.3.

Simple progressbar example

This is how to use a progressbar widget withiin awesome.

1. Add an include directive into ~/.awesomerc

   screen 0
   {
       include(~/.awesome/bottom-status-bar)
   }

2. Create ~/.awesome/bottom-status-bar

   progressbar diskusage
   {
       data "disk"
       {
           bordercolor = "#006e96"
           bg          = "#000000"
           fg          = "#ff0000"
           fg_center   = "#daaf0a"
           fg_end      = "#00ff00"
       }
       width = 100
       align = "left"
   }

3. Check the configuration file for errors

   $ awesome -k
   Configuration file OK.

Note: If you see anything other than "Configuration file OK," you have a typo somewhere.

4. Create ~/bin/awesome-diskusage

   #!/bin/sh
   while true; do
       # Edit the disk here for the disk you'd like to monitor.
       usage = `df /dev/sda5 | awk '/\/dev\/sda5/ { print 100-$5 }'`
       echo "0 widget_tell mystatusbar diskusage data disk ${usage}"
       echo "" # an empty line flushes data inside awesome
       sleep 600;
   done | awesome-client

Note: What we're saying is "awesome-client, tell widget 'diskusage' to set it's 'data' property named 'disk' to ${usage}."

5. Make ~/bin/awesome-diskusage executable

 $ chmod a+x ~/bin/awesome-diskusage

6. Modify ~/.xinitrc

   ~/bin/awesome-diskusage &
   exec awesome

7. Restart awesome

8. If your didn't get what you were expecting, take a look at

  ~/.xsession-errors or the terminal where X got started.