Lua Arguments in AwesomeWM

Question

I've been at this for a long time now. The AwesomeWM API doesn't document this well enough. I'm just confused as to how I am supposed to put arguments in this:

local cal = awful.widget.calendar_popup.month()

The documents say that arguments go inside the brackets. I have tried many things but nothing worked. Just how are these arguments supposed to go in the brackets? I have tried doing something like:

    local cal = awful.widget.calendar_popup.month({
           position = "tc",
           bg = "#19191999",
           other values etc etc
    })
cal:attach( mytextclock)

and a variety of other things but nothing worked. What's the correct way?

EDIT: Found out the correct way to do this is this:

local cal = awful.widget.calendar_popup.month({
    style_month = {
       bg_color = "#19191999",
       fg_color = "#ffffff"
    },
})

cal:attach( mytextclock, "tc" )

keep in mind the position of the widget has to remain in the attached widget. Hence "tc".

It had no changes at all. Nothing changed. Any argument I'd put inside the brackets would simply have no effect. Calling it using `cal:attach(mytextclock)` — xorg, Aug 12 '21 at 08:43

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '21 at 12:06

EDIT: Found out the correct way to do this is this:

local cal = awful.widget.calendar_popup.month({
    style_month = {
       bg_color = "#19191999",
       fg_color = "#ffffff"
    },
})

cal:attach( mytextclock, "tc" )

keep in mind the position of the widget has to remain in the attached widget. Hence "tc".

Lua Arguments in AwesomeWM

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