[Feature request] Communication with waybar via hyprland IPC

[Jayden876212old]

Is it possible to create a system of interacting with waybar via hyprctl like the feature seen with swaymsg (#1244)?

It would be useful for me to hide and show waybar as EWW does not have tray support yet and I have a minimal config for waybar for use with the system tray. I would like to be able to hide and show it from a simple command.

[Jayden876212old]

pkill -SIGUSR1 waybar doesn't seem to kill waybar and hides it.

[e-tho]

@tdljayden, Why did you close this issue?

The solution you've provided works for the entire Waybar process, but it would still be useful to be able to manage each Waybar instance when there are several.

I'd also like to be able to toggle the visibility of my tray and hardware modules in a vertical bar (in addition to my top bar), that would be used just like an eww widget.
It's definitely a feature that would be appreciated to bring Hyprland support on par with Sway's.

[Jayden876212old]

Eww is getting its own tray anyway. This feature would probably take a lot to implement and i dont think many would use it anyway. I can reopen it if you really want.

[e-tho]

No matter how long it takes to implement, Hyprland provides a featureful IPC that is already used in its own workspace module, so I'm sure it will eventually be considered.