well my top wibox is the default configuration that comes with awesome 3.5
-- Create a promptbox for each screen
mypromptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt()
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating
which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
mylayoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
mylayoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function ()
awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function ()
awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function ()
awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function ()
awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)))
-- Create a taglist widget
mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.filter.all,
mytaglist.buttons)
-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(s,
awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags, mytasklist.buttons)
-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s, height = 14 })
-- Widgets that are aligned to the left
local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
left_layout:add(mylauncher)
left_layout:add(mytaglist[s])
left_layout:add(mypromptbox[s])
-- Widgets that are aligned to the right
local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
right_layout:add(mytextclock)
right_layout:add(mylayoutbox[s])
-- Now bring it all together (with the tasklist in the middle)
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_left(left_layout)
layout:set_middle(mytasklist[s])
layout:set_right(right_layout)
mywibox[s]:set_widget(layout)
