waybar - cffi module

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.

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.

Cexample: 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" }

waybar - cffi module

The classes and IDs are managed by the cffi dynamic library. 2025-02-21 waybar-cffi(5)