Awesome 3.1 has been released yesterday and soon it’ll be in community, are you ready for it?

You’ll must do some changes in your configuration file:

• First, the statusbar objects no longer exist now they are wibox objects;

  mystatusbar = wibox({ ... })

• The syntax for adding widget changed, now it must do with:

  mystatusbar.widgets = { ... }

• Taglist have a new form:

  mytaglist = awful.widget.taglist.new(screen, taglabel_function, button_table)

  taglabel_function could be:

  • awful.widget.taglist.label.all (Return labels for a taglist widget with all tag from screen)
  • awful.widget.taglist.label.noempty (Return labels for a taglist widget with all *non empty* tags from screen)
• As for the taglist, tasklist have a new form:

  mytasklist = awful.widget.tasklist.new(tasklist_function, button_table)

  tasklist_function could be:

  • awful.widget.tasklist.label.allscreen (Return labels for a tasklist widget with clients from all tags and screen)
  • awful.widget.tasklist.label.alltags (Return labels for a tasklist widget with clients from all tags)
  • awful.widget.tasklist.label.currenttags (Return labels for a tasklist widget with clients from currently selected tags)
    
• Now it’s possible to add an image widget with:

  myimage       = widget({ type = "imagebox", align = "right" })
  myimage.image = image("/path/to/image.png")

This article is a summary of “Awesome 3.0 to 3.1” wiki page.

Enjoy!