Awesome: fixed network plugin (loopback interface was breaking things).

netinit: using 'iw' instead of 'iwconfig'.

.config/awesome/rc.lua

@@ -127,12 +127,14 @@ if ostype == "Linux" then
 
    -- Net
    -- CHECK: not sure if args["{".. device .." carrier}"] may have values below 0. What do values of the args table mean?
-   local proc = io.popen("ls -1 /sys/class/net")
+   -- Note: we must make sure note to take the loopback interface into account.
+   local proc = io.popen("ls -1 /sys/class/net | grep -v '^lo$'")
    local ifarray = {}
    for line in proc:lines() do
       table.insert (ifarray, line);
    end
    proc:close()
+
    vicious.register(netwidget, vicious.widgets.net,
                     function (widget, args)
                        for _,device in pairs(ifarray) do

.scripts/homeinit

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ fi
 if [ -n "$(command -v dwb)" ]; then
     echo "==> dwb"
     dwbem -Ni adblock_subscriptions
-    dwbem -Ni youtube_html5
+    # dwbem -Ni youtube_html5
     echo
 fi
 
@@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ echo
 
 ## News
 if [ -n "$(command -v newsbeuter)" ]; then
-echo "==> Newsbeuter"
-mkdir -p "$XDG_DATA_HOME/newsbeuter"
-[ -d "$SOURCEDIR" ] && ln -sf "${SOURCEDIR}/news/urls" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/newsbeuter/"
-[ -d "$SOURCEDIR" ] && ln -sf "${SOURCEDIR}/news/news_starred" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/newsbeuter/"
-echo
+    echo "==> Newsbeuter"
+    mkdir -p "$XDG_DATA_HOME/newsbeuter"
+    [ -d "$SOURCEDIR" ] && ln -sf "${SOURCEDIR}/news/urls" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/newsbeuter/"
+    [ -d "$SOURCEDIR" ] && ln -sf "${SOURCEDIR}/news/news_starred" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/newsbeuter/"
+    echo
+fi

.scripts/netinit

@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ if [ "$OSTYPE" = "linux-gnu" ] ; then
     ip link set ${NET_INTERFACE} up
 
     # Associate if needed.
-    if [ "$1" = "-f" ] || [ -n "$(iwconfig ${NET_INTERFACE} | grep 'Not-Associated')" ]; then
+    if [ "$1" = "-f" ] || [ -z "$(iw dev ${NET_INTERFACE} link | grep SSID)" ]; then
         wpa_supplicant -B -i ${NET_INTERFACE} -D wext -c <(echo "${WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF}")
     fi
 
     ## Wait until wpa_supplicant has finished association.
     i=0
-    while [ -n "$(iwconfig ${NET_INTERFACE} | grep 'off/any')" ] && [ $i -lt $TIMEOUT_LIMIT ] ; do
+    while [ -z "$(iw dev ${NET_INTERFACE} link | grep SSID)" ] && [ $i -lt $TIMEOUT_LIMIT ] ; do
         i=$(($i+1))
     done