add detail bar

.config/awesome/rc.lua

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ require("awful.util")
 require("beautiful")
 -- Notification library
 require("naughty")
---require("vicious")
+vicious = require("vicious")
 
 -- {{{ Error handling
 -- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ for s = 1, screen.count() do
 end
 -- }}}
 
+spacer = widget({type = "textbox"})
+separator = widget({type = "textbox"})
+spacer.text = " "
+separator.text = "|"
+
 -- {{{ Menu
 -- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
 myawesomemenu = {
@@ -114,16 +119,42 @@ mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock({ align = "right" })
 -- Create a systray
 mysystray = widget({ type = "systray" })
 
----- CPU
----- Initialize widget
---cpuwidget = awful.widget.graph()
----- Graph properties
---cpuwidget:set_width(50)
---cpuwidget:set_background_color("#494B4F")
---cpuwidget:set_color({ type = "linear", from = { 0, 0 }, to = { 10,0 }, stops = { {0, "#FF5656"}, {0.5, "#88A175"}, 
-                    --{1, "#AECF96" }}})
----- Register widget
---vicious.register(cpuwidget, vicious.widgets.cpu, "$1")
+-- CPU usage widget
+cpuwidget = awful.widget.graph()
+cpuwidget:set_width(50)
+cpuwidget:set_height(30)
+cpuwidget:set_background_color("#494B4F")
+cpuwidget:set_color("#FF5656")
+cpuwidget:set_gradient_colors({ "#FF5656", "#88A175", "#AECF96" })
+
+cpuwidget_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = { cpuwidget.widget },})
+
+-- Register CPU widget
+vicious.register(cpuwidget, vicious.widgets.cpu, 
+                    function (widget, args)
+                        cpuwidget_t:set_text("CPU Usage: " .. args[1] .. "%")
+                        return args[1]
+                    end)
+
+-- RAM usage widget
+memwidget = awful.widget.progressbar()
+memwidget:set_width(15)
+memwidget:set_height(30)
+memwidget:set_vertical(true)
+memwidget:set_background_color('#494B4F')
+memwidget:set_color('#AECF96')
+memwidget:set_gradient_colors({ '#AECF96', '#88A175', '#FF5656' })
+
+-- RAM usage tooltip
+memwidget_t = awful.tooltip({ objects = { memwidget.widget },})
+
+vicious.cache(vicious.widgets.mem)
+vicious.register(memwidget, vicious.widgets.mem,
+                function (widget, args)
+                    memwidget_t:set_text(" RAM: " .. args[2] .. "MB / " .. args[3] .. "MB ")
+                    return args[1]
+                 end, 13)
+                 --update every 13 seconds
 
 -- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
 mywibox = {}
@@ -202,6 +233,17 @@ for s = 1, screen.count() do
         mylayoutbox[s],
         mytextclock,
         s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
+        spacer,
+        separator,
+        spacer,
+        cpuwidget.widget,
+        spacer,
+        separator,
+        spacer,
+        memwidget.widget,
+        spacer,
+        separator,
+        spacer,
         mytasklist[s],
         layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
     }