Awesome WM current layout

Question

I'm wanna to write polybar module that displaying awesome current screen layout. Does awesome have function to return current screen layout with string or image?

Answer 1

Yes. You can use the mouse.screen.selected_tag.layout.name to get the name. This can be coupled with awesome-client like this:

awesome-client 'return mouse.screen.selected_tag.layout.name'

You can get the client/window geometry using mouse.screen.selected_tag:clients(). An image can be created using the Cairo API too. But at that point, you might want to reconsider using polybar and switch to the built-in awful.wibar module. Getting data in and out just for the sake of keeping polybar will end up being harder and more complex than porting a polybar design to wibar.