nifty! -- handy extensions to awesome

what

awesome is pretty neat. I wrote a couple of useful extensions to it, which I use in my own configuration and my media widget.

These are compatible with awesome 4. I make no guarantees re: backwards-compatibility with awesome 3.5.x or earlier.

some highlights:

• timeout, which can be used to deactivate widgets when they're not being used.
• popup_widget, a simple popup menu to wrap an arbitrary widget.
• All sorts of useful stuff
• 🔥 HOT like FIRE 🔥

but how

To use:

• git clone somewhere your config can read it, like ~/.config/awesome

• Use it in your configuration:

  -- in your rc.lua:
  local nifty = require("nifty")
  local mypopup = nifty.popup_widget(my_widget, {timeout = 3})
  mypopup:show()