tie tpm into my config

.config/awesome/rc.lua

@@ -93,6 +93,25 @@ spacer = widget({type = "textbox"})
 separator = widget({type = "textbox"})
 spacer.text = " "
 separator.text = "|"
+-- Execute command and return its output. You probably won't only execute commands with one
+-- line of output
+function execute_command(command)
+   local fh = io.popen(command)
+   local str = ""
+   for i in fh:lines() do
+      str = str .. i
+   end
+   io.close(fh)
+   return str
+end
+
+pom = widget({type = "textbox"})
+pom.text = " " .. execute_command("~/src/tpm/tpm") .. " "
+pomtimer = timer({ timeout = 1})
+pomtimer:add_signal("timeout", function() 
+  pom.text = " " .. execute_command("~/src/tpm/tpm") .. " " 
+end)
+pomtimer:start()
 
 -- {{{ Menu
 -- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
@@ -275,6 +294,7 @@ for s = 1, screen.count() do
         spacer,
         separator,
         spacer,
+        pom,
         mytasklist[s],
         layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
     }

.tmux.conf

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ set -g status-fg white
 set -g status-interval 1
 set -g status-left '#[fg=green]#H#[default]'
 set -g status-left-length 20
-set -g status-right '#[fg=cyan,bold]%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S#[default]'
+set -g status-right '#[fg=green]#(~/src/tpm/tpm) #[fg=cyan,bold]%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S#[default]'
 
 # Notifying if other windows has activities
 setw -g monitor-activity on