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waybar - cffi module
The cffi module gives full control of a GTK widget to a third-party dynamic library, to create more complex modules using different programming languages.
Addressed by cffi/<name>
module_path:
typeof: string
The path to the dynamic library to load to control the widget.
expand:
typeof: bool
default: false
Enables this module to consume all left over space dynamically.
Some additional configuration may be required depending on the cffi dynamic library being used.
An example module written in C can be found at https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/resources/custom_modules/cffi_example/
Waybar config to enable the module:
"cffi/c_example": {
"module_path": ".config/waybar/cffi/wb_cffi_example.so"
}
The classes and IDs are managed by the cffi dynamic library.
| 2025-02-21 |