hide mpd module completely info when stopped or disconnected

[DyslexicAtheist]

Hi,

as the title says I'm trying to not show the mpd info when it's in state stopped or disconnected. My current setup achieves this by overriding the following format options in waybar/config with empty strings:

        "format-disconnected": "",
        "format-stopped": "",

this is done in combination with transparent `color and background-color in style.css:

#mpd {
    padding: 0 10px;
    margin: 0 4px;
    background-color: #475f94;
    color: #f3f4f5;
}

#mpd.disconnected {
    background-color: transparent;
    color: transparent;
}

#mpd.stopped {
    background-color: transparent;
    color: transparent;
}

#mpd.paused {
    background-color: #51a37a;
}

is there another way to do this? Apologies for the somewhat silly question, but it felt like a bit of a hack doing this, so I'm unsure if this is the correct method. I couldn't find any info in the waybar-mpd (5) that instructs me how to achieve this. (I thought this would be a fairly standard way of how people want to set this up but maybe it's just me ;))

Thanks for any pointers.

my version is:
Waybar v0.9.2-140-g759602a (branch 'master')

thanks,
~DA

[fauxmight]

I strongly agree with your point that implementing something like the "exec-if" field from the custom module for other modules would be tremendously useful.

In general, conditionally displaying/executing modules as implemented in #394 seems like an extremely useful capability, though, according to the pull request, this idea has been rejected by waybar's creator in favor of a different (also abandoned) concept. (#100).

~Non-dyslexic Messianic Jew who mirror-writes anyway
[ ^ Just toying with your handle @DyslexicAtheist ; no disrespect intended]

[awused]

Seems like even this workaround broke at some point as the .stopped class is never applied at git head.