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cffi module

Description

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.

Configuration

Addressed by cffi/<name>

module_path:
typeof: string
The path to the dynamic library to load to control the widget.

Some additional configuration may be required depending on the cffi dynamic library being used.

Examples

C example

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"
  }

Style

The classes and IDs are managed by the cffi dynamic library.

Info

2024-04-23