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awesome/widgets/volume.lua

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+-- Volume widget
+local awful = require("awful")
+local wibox = require("wibox")
+
+volumecfg = {}
+volumecfg.channel = "Master"
+
+volumecfg.widget = wibox.widget.textbox()
+volumecfg.widget:set_align("right")
+volumecfg.widget.name = 'volumecfg.widget'
+
+volumecfg_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = { volumecfg.widget },})
+volumecfg_t:set_text("Volume")
+
+-- command must start with a space!
+volumecfg.mixercommand = function (command)
+	local fd = io.popen("amixer " .. command)
+	local status = fd:read("*all")
+	fd:close()
+	
+	local volume = tonumber(string.match(status, "(%d?%d?%d)%%"))
+	-- volume = string.format("% 3d", volume)
+	status = string.match(status, "%[(o[^%]]*)%]")
+
+	-- starting colour
+	local sr, sg, sb = 0x3F, 0x3F, 0x3F
+	-- ending colour
+	local er, eg, eb = 0xDC, 0xDC, 0xCC
+	
+	if string.find(status, "on", 1, true) then
+		color = 'grey'
+		mute = '♪'
+	else
+		sr, sg, sb = 0xFF, 0x33, 0xAA
+		color = 'red'
+		mute = 'M'
+	end
+	
+	local ir = math.floor(volume/100 * (er - sr) + sr)
+	local ig = math.floor(volume/100 * (eg - sg) + sg)
+	local ib = math.floor(volume/100 * (eb - sb) + sb)
+	interpol_colour = string.format("%.2x%.2x%.2x", sr, ig, sb)
+	
+	volume = " <span color='" .. color .. "' background='#" .. interpol_colour .. "'>   ".. mute .. math.floor(volume) .. "%  </span>"
+--	              volume = volume .. "%"
+
+
+	volumecfg.widget.text = volume
+	volumecfg.widget:set_markup(volume)
+
+end
+volumecfg.update = function ()
+       volumecfg.mixercommand(" sget " .. volumecfg.channel)
+end
+volumecfg.up = function ()
+       volumecfg.mixercommand(" sset " .. volumecfg.channel .. " 1%+")
+end
+volumecfg.down = function ()
+       volumecfg.mixercommand(" sset " .. volumecfg.channel .. " 1%-")
+end
+volumecfg.toggle = function ()
+       volumecfg.mixercommand(" sset " .. volumecfg.channel .. " toggle")
+end
+volumecfg.widget:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
+	awful.button({ }, 4, function () volumecfg.up() end),
+	awful.button({ }, 5, function () volumecfg.down() end),
+	awful.button({ }, 1, function () volumecfg.toggle() end),
+	awful.button({ }, 3, function () os.execute("pavucontrol &") end)
+))
+-- start updating
+volumecfg.update()
+-- start timer
+mytimer = timer({ timeout = 1 })
+mytimer:connect_signal("timeout", function () volumecfg.update() end)
+mytimer:start()
+
+return volumecfg