Include this in your ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua file and then add the widget at the same place you add your clock.
Output is like 69%[123] - the number in the square brackets is the minutes remaining (or ??)
Colour will be green if charging, white if battery is high, yellow if low or red if critical.
| -- battery widget | |
| function battery_status () | |
| -- note that whatever order you specify these flags in, ac status is always the last line | |
| local fd=io.popen("apm -blma", "r") --list present batteries | |
| local batstate = tonumber(fd:read()) | |
| local batpct = tonumber(fd:read()) | |
| local batmin = fd:read() | |
| local acstate = tonumber(fd:read()) | |
| local color | |
| if batstate == 3 or acstate == 1 then -- charging or AC green | |
| color="<span color=\"lightgreen\">" | |
| elseif batstate == 0 then -- high white | |
| color="<span color=\"white\">" | |
| elseif batstate == 1 then -- low yellow | |
| color="<span color=\"yellow\">" | |
| elseif batstate == 2 then -- critical red | |
| color="<span color=\"red\">" | |
| end | |
| if batmin == "unknown" then | |
| batmin = "?" | |
| end | |
| return(""..color..batpct.."% ["..batmin.."]".."</span>") | |
| end | |
| mybattmon = wibox.widget.textbox(battery_status()) | |
| my_battmon_timer=timer({timeout=30}) | |
| my_battmon_timer:connect_signal("timeout", function() | |
| -- mytextbox.text = " " .. os.date() .. " " | |
| mybattmon:set_markup(battery_status()) | |
| end) | |
| my_battmon_timer:start() |