awesome-widgets (ex-pytextmonitor)

Information

A collection of minimalistic widgets which looks like Awesome Window Manager widgets.

NOTE LOOKING FOR TRANSLATORS!

Features

• easy and fully configurable native Plasma widget which may be used as Conky widget or as Awesome-like information panel
• panel which shows active desktop status
• clear Conky-like configuration with html tags support
• custom command support (it may be simple action as well as special custom tag)
• graphical item support - tooltips, bars

See links for more details.

Didn't find required feature? Just ask for it!

Instruction

Dependencies

• plasma-framework

Optional dependencies

• proprietary video driver
• hddtemp
• smartmontools
• music player (mpd or MPRIS supported)
• wireless_tools

Make dependencies

• cmake
• extra-cmake-modules

In addition some distros might require to install some -dev packages, e.g. the list of required packages for deb-based distros can be found here.

Installation

• download sources

• install

    mkdir build && cd build
    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../sources
    make && sudo make install
  

  NOTE on Plasma 5 it very likely requires -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON flag

  NOTE if you are going to build from git, you need to init submodules first, e.g.:

    git submodule update --init --recursive
  

Additional information

TODO (wish list)

See milestones for more details.

Links

• Homepage
• Migration to 2.*
• Scripts and bars
• Plasmoid on kde-look
• DataEngine on kde-look
• Archlinux AUR package
• OpenSuse packages, KF5 OpenSuse package