Updated mainprofile, removed autoindent in vim. Set up awesome.lua with xinitrc. See if it works

awesome/widgets/power.lua

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+local wibox = require("wibox")
+local awful = require("awful")
+
+
+powercfg = {}
+powercfg.widget = wibox.widget.textbox()
+powercfg.widget:set_align("right");
+
+powercfg.update = function ()
+	--local fd = io.popen("acpi | cut -d ':' -f 2")
+	--local status = fd:read("*all")
+	--fd:close()
+	
+	--local power = tonumber(string.match(status, "%d+")) 
+	--stats = string.match(status,"(%s+),")
+--	local charging = false
+--
+--
+	stats = '1'
+	power = ''
+	local colour = 'blue'
+--	-- colours (start and end)
+--	local sr, sg, sb = 0x3F,0x3F,0x3F
+--	local er, eg, eb = 0xDC, 0xDC, 0xDC
+--
+--	-- make colour
+--	local ir = math.floor(power * (er - sr) + sr)
+--	local ib = math.floor(power * (eg - sg) + sg)
+--	local ig = math.floor(power * (eb - sb) + sb)
+--	--interpol_colour = string.format("%.2x%.2x%.2x", sr, ig, sb)
+	interpol_colour = '3f4f3f'
+--
+--	if charging then
+--		colour = 'green'
+--	elseif power < 50 then
+--		colour = 'yellow'
+--	elseif power < 25 then
+--		colour = 'orange'
+--	elseif power < 10 then
+--		colour = 'red'
+--	end
+	--power = status
+
+	
+	text = "<span color='" .. colour .. "' background='#" .. interpol_colour .. "'> " .. power .. "% </span>" .. status
+
+	powercfg.widget.text = text
+	powercfg.widget:set_markup(text)
+end
+
+-- start updating it
+powercfg.update()
+-- start timer
+powercfg.timer = timer({ timeout = 1})
+powercfg.timer:connect_signal("timeout", function () powercfg.update() end)
+powercfg.timer:start()
+
+return powercfg