Farhavens fish widget

Farhavens fish widget

Introduction

This widget places a little moving turquoise ASCII fish into your wiboxes, which, once clicked, displays a fortune using naughty. Naturally, you need to include naughty with require("naughty") into your config file and you also need GNU fortune installed.

Widget Code

Paste the following code somewhere before your wibox definition into your rc.lua

 fish = { }
 fish.widget = widget({ type = "textbox", align = "right" })
 fish.state = 1
 fish.states = { "<°}))o»«", "<°)})o>«", "<°))}o»<" }
 fish.widget:buttons({
     button({ }, 1, function () fish.fortune() end ) })
 
 function fish.fortune()
     local fh = io.popen("fortune -n 100 -s")
     local fortune = fh:read("*all")
     fh:close()
     naughty.notify({ text = fortune, timeout = 7 })
 end
 function fish.update()
     local t = ""
     t = t .. awful.util.escape(fish.states[fish.state])
     t = t .. ""
     fish.widget.text = t
     fish.state = (fish.state + 1) % #(fish.states) + 1
 end
 fish.update()
 
 awful.hooks.timer.register(0.5, fish.update)

Then, add fish.widget to your wibox and restart Awesome. Enjoy the fish :)