awesome-debug-helpers.lua

-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")

local _dbus = dbus; dbus = nil
local naughty = require("naughty")  -- XXX: if loaded (with dbus available), notifications do not go to dunst/notify-osd anymore
dbus = _dbus

-- Debug function. Set focusstyle.debug to activate it. {{{2
local gears = require("gears")
local bdebug_level = 10  -- display all
bdebug = function(data, tag, level, timeout)
    local level = level or 1
    local tag = tag or type(data)
    local timeout = timeout or 0
    -- bnote(gears.debug.dump_return(data, tag), level, timeout)
    print("----- " .. os.date("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))
    gears.debug.dump(data, tag)
end
bnote = function(s, timeout)
    local level = level or 1
    local timeout = timeout or 30
    -- if not bdebug_level or bdebug_level < level then
    --     return
    -- end
    naughty.notify({
        text = s,
        timeout = timeout,
        font = "monospace 10",
    })
end
bdump = function(data, tag) return gears.debug.dump_return(data, tag) end
-- }}}