Are you ready for Awesome 3.1?

Awesome 3.1 has been released yesterday and soon it’ll be in community, are you ready for it?

You’ll must do some changes in your configuration file:

• First, the statusbar objects no longer exist now they are wibox objects;

  mystatusbar = wibox({ ... })
  

• The syntax for adding widget changed, now it must do with:

  mystatusbar.widgets = { ... }
  

• Taglist have a new form:

  mytaglist = awful.widget.taglist.new(screen, taglabel_function, button_table)
  

  taglabel_function could be: awful.widget.taglist.label.all (Return labels for a taglist widget with all tag from screen) awful.widget.taglist.label.noempty (Return labels for a taglist widget with all non empty tags from screen)

• As for the taglist, tasklist have a new form:

  mytasklist = awful.widget.tasklist.new(tasklist_function, button_table)
  

  tasklist_function could be: awful.widget.tasklist.label.allscreen (Return labels for a tasklist widget with clients from all tags and screen) awful.widget.tasklist.label.alltags (Return labels for a tasklist widget with clients from all tags) awful.widget.tasklist.label.currenttags (Return labels for a tasklist widget with clients from currently selected tags)

• Now it’s possible to add an image widget with:

  myimage       = widget({ type = "imagebox", align = "right" })
  myimage.image = image("/path/to/image.png")
  

This article is a summary of “Awesome 3.0 to 3.1” wiki page.

Enjoy!

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