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 desktop or panel widget
• additionnal widget which shows active desktop status
• clear text configuration with html tags support
• custom command support (it may be simple action as well as special custom tag)
• graphical widgets support - tooltips, bars

See links for more details.

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Instruction

Dependencies

• plasma-workspace

Optional dependencies

• 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

• build package

  cmake -B build -S sources -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  cmake --build build
  

• install package

  cmake --install build
  

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