I seem to have found a way to do this, I'll post it here incase anyone should have a similar issue.
Instead of using markup for the background I used: http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/modules/wibox.widget.background.html Which I didn't know existed. On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Sean Goodwin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently running into a problem where text in a widget is not being > aligned to the center of the wibox. Here is a picture: > > http://i.imgur.com/ORoUUYj.png > > As you can see the VOL widget text is lower than the SYS widget text. The > problem seems to be occurring because I'm assigning two fonts to the > textbox (I need to do this so the background color fills the entire area) > like so: > > volume = '<span background="#75434c" font="Droid Sans Mono 12"> <span > color="#c8dfdf" font="Profont 8"> VOL:' .. volume > > Obviously I close the spans later. > > Anyone have any suggestions? >
