Awesome Pulseaudio Widget

Fork of APW with percentages and support for Awesome 4.0

Awesome Pulseaudio Widget (APW) is a little widget for Awesome WM, using the awful progressbar widget, to display default's sink volume and control Pulseaudio.

It's compatible with Awesome 4.0.

Get it

cd $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome/
git clone https://github.com/p-himik/apw4.git

Use it

Just put these line to the appropriate places in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome/rc.lua.

-- Load the widget.
local APW = require("apw4/widget")

-- This must go after beautiful.init(...)
local apw = APW()

-- The layout of widgets has to be configured in your rc.lua
-- Somewhere where you create your wibars
{ -- Right widgets on the top wibar
    layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
    wibox.widget {
        forced_width = 40,
        widget = apw.progressbar
    },
    mykeyboardlayout,
    wibox.widget.systray(),
    mytextclock,
    s.mylayoutbox,
},

-- Configure the hotkeys.
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioRaiseVolume",  apw.up),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioLowerVolume",  apw.down),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioMute",         apw.togglemute),

Customize it

Theme

Important: beautiful.init must be called before you call APW() for theming to work.

Just add these variables to your Beautiful theme.lua file and set them to whatever colors or gradients you wish:

--{{{ APW
theme.apw_fg_color = {type = 'linear', from = {0, 0}, to={40,0},
	stops={{0, "#CC8888"}, {.4, "#88CC88"}, {.8, "#8888CC"}}}
theme.apw_bg_color = "#333333"
theme.apw_mute_fg_color = "#CC9393"
theme.apw_mute_bg_color = "#663333"
--}}}

Mixer

Right-clicking the widget launches a mixer. By default this is pavucontrol, but you can customize it by providing an optional buttons argument to APW:

local APW = require("apw/widget")
local apw = APW{
    buttons = {
        [1] = pulsewidget.togglemute,
        [3] = function() awful.spawn.with_shell('pavucontrol') end,
        [4] = function () pulsewidget.up() end,
        [5] = function() pulsewidget.down() end
    }
}

Tip

You could update the widget periodically if you'd like. In case, the volume is changed from somewhere else.

apw_timer = timer({ timeout = 0.5 }) -- set update interval in s
apw_timer:connect_signal("timeout", apw.update)
apw_timer:start()

Contributing

Just fork it and file a pull request. I'll look into it.