How to overlay text on to an awesomewm widget?

Question

Over the years I've used conky for most of this stuff, and I currently have a conky-only bottom bar for this purpose. I'm trying to rewrite parts/all of it in awesomewm, but I'm hung up on one thing.

With conky it's trivial to overlay text on something else (normally a graph), just by getting a new line and doing a voffset.

awesomewm, obviously, has a different paradigm. Is there any core (v4) way to achieve the same effect of text overlaying a graph/progressbar? So for example a graph of CPU activity with an overlay showing cpu_p or something similar?

Emmanuel Lepage Vallee · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-16T00:21:22.263

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It's trivial an Awesome 4.0+ too, you need to use a wibox.layout.stack to place a wibox.widget.textbox on top of the wibox.widget.graph. See the first example in the progressbar documentation:

https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/widgets/wibox.widget.progressbar.html

edited Jul 16 '22 at 00:21

answered Aug 17 '17 at 20:37

Emmanuel Lepage Vallee

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That's... way easier than I thought it would be. Thanks. – Ng Oon-Ee Aug 17 '17 at 20:53
No problem, don't forget to post your result in https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/1395 once you are done! – Emmanuel Lepage Vallee Aug 17 '17 at 21:08
the link is changed, try this https://elv13.github.io/widgets/wibox.widget.progressbar.html – Farhad May 24 '22 at 15:57

How to overlay text on to an awesomewm widget?

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