added WAYBAR_HIDDEN env var used to hide the waybar

images/base-app/Dockerfile

@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ COPY --chmod=777 scripts/init-gamescope.sh /etc/cont-init.d/init-gamescope.sh
 COPY --chmod=777 scripts/launch-comp.sh /opt/gow/launch-comp.sh
 COPY --chmod=777 scripts/startup.sh /opt/gow/startup.sh
 COPY --chmod=777 scripts/wait-x11 /opt/gow/wait-x11
+COPY --chmod=777 scripts/reconfig-waqybar.py /opt/gow/reconfig-waqybar.py
 
 RUN apt-get update -y && \
     apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsdl2-2.0-0 libncurses6 && \

images/base-app/configs/waybar/config.jsonc

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 // -*- mode: jsonc -*-
 {
+  // don't manualy change the following 3
   "layer": "top",
+  "mode": "dock",
+  "start_hidden": false,
   // Waybar at top layer
   "position": "top",
   // Waybar position (top|bottom|left|right)

images/base-app/scripts/launch-comp.sh

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ function launcher() {
     # Only copy waybar default config if it doesn't exist
     mkdir -p $HOME/.config/waybar
     cp -u /cfg/waybar/* $HOME/.config/waybar/
+    # Switch out settings based on $WAYBAR_HIDDEN
+    /opt/gow/reconfig-waqybar.py
 
     # Sway needs to be overridden since we are going to change the resolution and app start
     mkdir -p $HOME/.config/sway/

images/base-app/scripts/reconfig-waqybar.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import os
+
+WAYBAR_HIDDEN = os.getenv("WAYBAR_HIDDEN")
+set_hidden = True if WAYBAR_HIDDEN == "true" or WAYBAR_HIDDEN == "yes" else False
+
+data_out: str = ""
+nest_count = 0
+
+with open(f"{os.environ['HOME']}/.config/waybar/config.jsonc", "r") as config_file:
+    for line in config_file:
+        if line.find("{") != -1 or line.find("[") != -1: nest_count += 1
+        if line.find("}") != -1 or line.find("]") != -1: nest_count -= 1
+        if nest_count == 1:
+            if line.find("layer") != -1:
+                if set_hidden:
+                    data_out += line.replace("top", "bottom")
+                else:
+                    data_out += line.replace("bottom", "top")
+                continue
+            if line.find("mode") != -1:
+                if set_hidden:
+                    data_out += line.replace("dock", "hide")
+                else:
+                    data_out += line.replace("hide", "dock")
+                continue
+            if line.find("start_hidden") != -1:
+                if set_hidden:
+                    data_out += line.replace("false", "true")
+                else:
+                    data_out += line.replace("true", "false")
+                continue
+        data_out += line
+
+with open(f"{os.environ['HOME']}/.config/waybar/config.jsonc", "w") as config_file:
+    config_file.write(data_out)