awesome-copycats/yawn

Yahoo's Awesome (WM) Weather Notification

Yawn is a module for Awesome WM providing brief and compact weather notification via naughty lib and Yahoo! Weather API.

Originally a fork of perceptive, it became a completely new module after various improvements and style changes.

Usage

Clone yawn repository into your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/awesome (Awesome config dir). Then, add in your rc.lua:

require("yawn")
yawn.register(123456)

where the function argument is so-called WOEID code of your city. To obtain it you can google 'yahoo weather %CITYNAME%' and follow the first link. It will look like

http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/california/san-diego-2487889/

and the last number in that link will be the ID you need.

Default units and text widget color are Celsius and #D7D7D7, but they can be changed. If you just want to change the color, add a second argument like this:

yawn.register(123456, "#EEEEEE")

if you want to set Fahrenheit units, add a third argument like this:

yawn.register(123456, "#EEEEEE", "f")

color argument can be nil if you don't want to change it.

Finally, add yawn to your wibox of choice, for instance:

right_layout:add(yawn.icon)
right_layout:add(yawn.widget)

if you just want the notification attached to an existent widget, use attach instead:

yawn.attach(*yourwidget*, 123456)

or

yawn.attach(*yourwidgetagain*, 123456, "f")

you can also create a shortcut for the weather popup. In my rc.lua I've got this:

awful.key({ altkey,  }, "w", function () yawn.show_weather(5) end) 

where altkey is set right below modkey like this:

altkey = "Mod1"

so I can call the popup for 5 seconds pressing Alt+w.

Localization

The default language is English, but if you wish to have a localization, you have to add a proper file in localizations. You'll find a template to fill in the subdirectory.

Once you're done, rename it like your locale id, without ".utf8". In my case:

$ lua
Lua 5.2.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print(os.getenv("LANG"))
it_IT.utf8
> 

hence my file (Italian localization) has been named "it_IT".

NOTE: If you create a localization, feel free to send me! I will add it.

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