making awesome more awesome

awesome/widget/clickable-container/init.lua

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+local wibox = require('wibox')
+local beautiful = require('beautiful')
+
+function build(widget)
+	local container =
+		wibox.widget {
+		widget,
+		widget = wibox.container.background
+	}
+	local old_cursor, old_wibox
+
+	container:connect_signal(
+		'mouse::enter',
+		function()
+			container.bg = beautiful.groups_bg
+			-- Hm, no idea how to get the wibox from this signal's arguments...
+			local w = mouse.current_wibox
+			if w then
+				old_cursor, old_wibox = w.cursor, w
+				w.cursor = 'hand1'
+			end
+		end
+	)
+
+	container:connect_signal(
+		'mouse::leave',
+		function()
+			container.bg = beautiful.transparent
+			if old_wibox then
+				old_wibox.cursor = old_cursor
+				old_wibox = nil
+			end
+		end
+	)
+
+	container:connect_signal(
+		'button::press',
+		function()
+			container.bg = beautiful.groups_title_bg
+		end
+	)
+
+	container:connect_signal(
+		'button::release',
+		function()
+			container.bg = beautiful.groups_bg
+		end
+	)
+
+	return container
+end
+
+return build