awesome.quicklaunch

Simple quicklaunchbar widget.

Installation

Simply drop the script into your awesome config folder, e.g.:

cd ~/.config/awesome
git clone https://github.com/deficient/quicklaunch.git

Usage

In your ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua:

local quicklaunch = require("quicklaunch")


-- create widget
local launchbar = quicklaunch:bar {
    { "Mumble",       "mumble.svg",       "mumble",         },
    { "Pidgin",       "pidgin.png",       "pidgin",         },
    { "Konversation", "konversation.png", "konversation",   },
    {                                                       },
    { "Terminal",     "terminator.png",   "termite",        {
        {"~/dev",     "termite -d ~/dev"    },
        {"/media",    "termite -d ~/media"  },
    }},
}


-- add the widget to your wibox
left_layout:add(launchbar)

Arguments

The constructor expects a list of items which can each be

• an empty table (separator)
• a table of three or four elements { tooltip, icon, action, [menu] }

An action can be

• a command string
• a table (list of command line arguments)
• a function to be executed

A menu must be given as a list of tables { text, menu-action, [icon] }.

Be careful about menu-action. These are passed directly to awful.menu and can be either

• a command string
• a table (submenu)
• a function to be executed. Make sure that this function ignores it's arguments and does not return values!

(If the function returns values, awful will understand them as visible, action = f() and keep the menu alive if visible is truthy and execute action)

Requirements

• awesome 4.0. May work on 3.5 with minor changes.