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Top Forums Programming [LUA] WindowManager: Awesome - Checking OS and assign different icon Post 302952039 by sea on Wednesday 12th of August 2015 08:53:56 PM
Old 08-12-2015
[LUA] WindowManager: Awesome - Checking OS and assign different icon
Heyas

I'm having a bad time to fix this.
Code is just related samples, paths are edited, take: ~/.config/awesome as 'base/config' (dot) dir.

Situation:
Recently i actualy started to have 2 different kinds of gnu/linux installed, with this, the abition raised, to get a distro specific icon displayed in the shared WM configuration because of the shared /home partition.

After some tweakings i've managed to get the WM reloaded without issues, but still, no icon is displayed, in neither of the OS'.

rc.lua
Code:
-- Functions
	-- Its just a workaround for an 'unstable' 'hwmon/hwmon[12]' definition of Fedora21 - Rawhide
	-- Function (only) from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4990990/lua-check-if-a-file-exists
	function file_exists(name)
		local f=io.open(name,"r")
		if f~=nil then io.close(f) return true else return false end
	end

-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
	beautiful.init(awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/themes/sea/theme.lua")

	os_icon = wibox.widget.imagebox()
	if file_exists("/etc/favicon.png")
	then	-- Its either fedora or provides same functionality
		os_icon:set_image(beautiful.icon_fedora)
		naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical, title = "Its fedora", text = err })
	else	-- Probably Arch
		os_icon:set_image( beautiful.icon_arch )
		naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical, title = "Its arch", text = err })
	end

-- Show the menu entry with icon
	mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = beautiful.os_icon,
		                             menu = mymainmenu })

And within the ./themes/sea/theme.lua there is:
Code:
theme.icon_fedora 	= "/etc/favicon.png"
theme.icon_arch 	= themes .. "/sea/arch_icon_16.png"

I do get a msgbox saying "Its arch", but i dont get an icon.

Any ideas or hints please?
Thank you

EDIT:
Note that 'beautiful' is the class providing the items of the active theme.
Last edited by sea; 08-13-2015 at 12:17 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

wm-icons-config

WM-ICONS-CONFIG(1)					      General Commands Manual						WM-ICONS-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       wm-icons-config - show and set configuration for wm-icons

SYNOPSIS

       wm-icons-config [options] NAME [ICON_SET] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  show  wm-icons  package  configuration, and the list of installed icon sets. It also is used to set aliases to icon-sets in system or
       user space. In the synopsis above, NAME is icon alias name, ICON_SET is icon set directory  (for  example:  mini  16x16-default).  If  NAME
       already	exists as an alias, it is not overwritten, unless the --force option is given. Explicit NAMEs override --defaults.  Just the alias
       names are given for --which and --remove options.

OPTIONS

   Informational options: display info and exit
       --help Print a short usage message

       --version
	      Show version number and exit

       --inst-dir
	      Show wm-icons installed icon directory and exit

       --user-dir
	      Show wm-icons user icon directory and exit

       --show-defaults
	      Show default aliases and exit

       --show-aliases
	      Show the aliases currently present. One of --global, --personal, --user-dir must be given

       --show-sets
	      Show a list of installed icon sets

   Directory selection options: precisely one of these must be given
       --global
	      Set up global (system-wide) links in the base dir

       --personal
	      Set up personal links in ~/.wm-icons

       --user-dir=USER_DIR
	      Set up links in USER_DIR

   Choice of links: at least one of these must be given
       --defaults
	      Set up default aliases, as shown by --show-defaults

   Extra options
       --remove
	      Remove the symlinks rather than creating them, return (0, 1)

       --which
	      Show the icon set for the given alias(es), return (0, 1)

       --quiet
	      Do not output results of alias manipulating to stdout

       --force
	      Force overwriting of existing symlinks

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHORS

       Mikhael Goikhman <migo (at) cpan.org> and others (see file AUTHORS).

       This manual page was initially written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

								    09-Apr-2006 						WM-ICONS-CONFIG(1)
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