essentials/dotfiles/awesome/lain/wiki/base.md

<- widgets

This is a simple template widget.

Basically, all it does is to execute an input cmd, and to fill its textbox with the output.

mybase = lain.widgets.base()

input table

Variable	Meaning	Type	Default
timeout	Refresh timeout seconds	int	5
cmd	The command to execute	string	empty string
settings	User settings	function	empty function

settings can use the string output, which is the output of cmd.

output table

Variable	Meaning	Type
widget	The widget	wibox.widget.textbox
update	Update widget	function

The update function can be used to refresh the widget before timeout expires.