Add day of the week widget

config/awesome/noodle/day_of_the_week.lua

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+local awful = require("awful")
+local gears = require("gears")
+local wibox = require("wibox")
+local beautiful = require("beautiful")
+
+-- Create invisible dummy clock that actually updates in order to
+-- connect to its redraw_needed signal
+local dummy_textclock = wibox.widget.textclock("%M")
+dummy_textclock.visible = false
+
+local dotw_initials = {"M", "T", "W", "T", "F", "S", "S"}
+local dotw_colors = {
+    x.color9,
+    x.color9,
+    x.color9,
+    x.color9,
+    x.color9,
+    -- Different color for weekends ^_^
+    x.color12,
+    x.color12,
+}
+
+local dotw_textboxes = {}
+
+local create_dotw_container = function (text, color)
+    local text = wibox.widget.textbox(text)
+    text.font = "sans bold 10"
+    -- text.markup = "<span foreground='" .. x.background .."'>" .. text .. "</span>"
+    text.align = "center"
+    text.valign = "center"
+    table.insert(dotw_textboxes, text)
+
+    local container = wibox.widget {
+        text,
+        forced_height = dpi(25),
+        forced_width = dpi(25),
+        bg = color,
+        shape = gears.shape.circle,
+        -- shape = gears.shape.rounded_rect, 
+        widget = wibox.container.background()
+    }
+
+    return container
+end
+
+local dotw_containers = {}
+for i=1,7 do
+    table.insert(dotw_containers, create_dotw_container(dotw_initials[i], dotw_colors[i]))
+end
+
+local day_of_the_week = wibox.widget {
+    nil,
+    {
+        dummy_textclock,
+        dotw_containers[1],
+        dotw_containers[2],
+        dotw_containers[3],
+        dotw_containers[4],
+        dotw_containers[5],
+        dotw_containers[6],
+        dotw_containers[7],
+        spacing = dpi(4),
+        layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal
+    },
+    expand = "none",
+    layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal
+}
+
+local update_dotw = function ()
+    awful.spawn.easy_async_with_shell("date +%u", function (out)
+        local index = tonumber(out)
+        for i=1,7 do
+            dotw_containers[i].bg = "#00000000"
+            -- dotw_textboxes[i].markup = 
+            --     "<span foreground='" .. x.color8 .."'>"
+            --     .. dotw_initials[i] .. "</span>"
+        end
+        dotw_containers[index].bg = dotw_colors[index]
+        -- dotw_textboxes[index].markup = 
+        --     "<span foreground='" .. dotw_colors[index] .."'>"
+        --     .. dotw_initials[index] .. "</span>"
+    end)
+end
+
+-- Initialize
+update_dotw()
+
+-- Update every time the dummy clock updates since the "+%u" textclock does not
+-- update on its own for some reason
+dummy_textclock:connect_signal("widget::redraw_needed", function () 
+    update_dotw()
+end)
+
+return day_of_the_week