I like to have installed the logout-menu-widget from Pavel Makhov (@streetturtle)in awesome. I like to can shut down my machine with a pair of clicks. But, it turns out that the logout-menu-widget does not work for me out of the box. It’s just a configuration problem, and, to solve it, I have to change a couple of lines in the widget source code (logout-menu.lua file).
Fixing the icon
The first problem that arises is that the icon does not appear. It’s just a path problem. I have my widgets under a /widget directory, so I have to change the path in the following line:
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local ICON_DIR = HOME .. '/.config/awesome/awesome-wm-widgets/logout-menu-widget/icons/'
And set my personal path:
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local ICON_DIR = HOME .. '/.config/awesome/widgets/logout-menu-widget/icons/'
Fixing the shutdown
I don’t have the shutdown alias defined for my user, so the shutdown option does not work. And the “now” argument does not work with my version of shutdown. To fix this (without have to add a new alias) I change the command in the following line:
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local onpoweroff = args.onpoweroff or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("shutdown now") end
And set the absolute path for the shutdown binary and the options to shutdown the system immediately:
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local onpoweroff = args.onpoweroff or function() awful.spawn.with_shell("/sbin/shutdown -h now") end
Disabling options
Since I am already editing the file, and since I never use the suspend option, I take this oportuntity to disable the suspend option. To do this i comment the following line:
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-- { name = 'Suspend', icon_name = 'moon.svg', command = onsuspend },
And my widget is ready.
Enjoy! ;)