init.lua

[dodo]

how about adding an init.lua file?

so i can use couth simply as git submodule in my awesomerc without changing anything :)

this would even simplify the necessary require:

require("couth")

[gorlowski]

Interesting. I'm not a very experienced git user, and I was unaware of how git submodules work. I did a quick DDG search and read up on them.

Maybe I will add a function called couth.config(args) that will take a simple list of options like

require("couth")
couth.config({alsa = couth.AUTOCONFIG, ... }) 

That way the user could choose the default keybindings with a simple function call or she could not use the autoconfig and instead bind keys manually.

I could configure couth.CONFIG.ALSA_CONTROLS automatically if the user chooses some autoconfig option. The code could call amixer to get the list of controls and include all the ones that have a "pvolume" capability.

I'll look into this some evening this week and update the code to add some kind of autoconfig option with sensible defaults + introspection of alsa controls. I'll have to think about a way to make the configure statement both simple and flexible.