How to add this to the wibar?

[wucke13]

Using right_layout:add(battery.widget) throws an error cause there is no object right_layout. How may I add it to the wibar, after initial setup?

[coldfix]

depends how your rc.lua looks like. The current default contains a section which looks like:

    awful.titlebar(c) : setup {
        { -- Left
            ...
        },
        { -- Middle
            ...
        },
        { -- Right
            ...
        },
        layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal
}

you can insert battery.widget there as you like it.

The usage example from the README is from a time where the default looked different, I believe.

[coldfix]

Oh, forget what I said! This is for the client titlebars, not the wibox.

Instead, look for:

s.mywibox:setup {

        layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal,
        { -- Left widgets
            ...
        },
        s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
        { -- Right widgets
            ...
        },
}

[wucke13]

I know that I can add it this way, however I would like to add it after the initial run of s.mywibox:setup. Is that still possible? The reason is that I use the same rc.lua for both desktop and laptop. I wrote a little lua snippet which finds out on which device I am, now I would like to add it to the wibox.

[coldfix]

Oh. Well, you can restructure your init code like this:

  local right_layout = {
      ...
  }
  if laptop then table.insert(right_layout, battery.widget) end
  s.mywibox:setup {
      layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal,
      left_layout,
      nil,
      right_layout,
  }

Or just look into the awesome documentation.