Possibility to integrate application into EWW

[JarKz]

I'm very curious to integrate an application into EWW from which I can get events to modify state.

It will help to make these widgets, which depends on environment, like Hyprland, niri and etc. And better to implement the application that listens socket and update data, because the update will be immediate than using bash commands, IMHO.

Instead of using two separated applications (EWW and my application) I want to use together as one application, like it was done in waybar.

Is it possible to make in EWW or any plans to make it if impossible?

[theNoof]

you could probably use the IPC of niri to add elements to the event loop (or smthin like that idk) and inplement a listener for event that feed into a (deflisten).
tbh i also want something like that.

also, making it possible to execute shell commands when a window closes/opens would be very helpful too, to not make such things extra inefficient and not have them always running.

i sadly never used hyprland and dont know how its there.

hope that helped :)

[JarKz]

It does resolve the issue, but it's not the main idea of the discussion.

Your solution means that there will be two or more instances — EWW and specific applications for it to have extended functionality. That will be cause of hard management of applications. I mean running EWW instance with 'my code' without running as separated application.

And because of this I still can't move from waybar into EWW, even if I like widget creation.

Anyway, thank you for response! I appreciate it.