How to query Waybar for its visibility state from a shell script? And how to ask Waybar to specifically show or hide itself (via a separate command for each, i.e. not "toggle")?

[SpaceshipOperations]

As the title says, I want to be able to know whether Waybar is currently visible or not from a shell script. Without relying on some WM tool like swaymsg to answer the question.

I also want to be able to ask Waybar to specifically show or hide itself, i.e. via separate "show" and "hide" commands, which means that the usual SIGUSR1 won't do it for me because it's a toggle command. Again, I want to be able to communicate directly with Waybar, not relying on some WM proxy command like swaymsg.

Thank you in advance.

[Jedsek]

@SpaceshipOperations I found killall -9 SIGUSR2 waybar could hide it

[khushal-banks]

I also want to be able to ask Waybar to specifically show or hide itself, i.e. via separate "show" and "hide" commands, which means that the usual SIGUSR1 won't do it for me because it's a toggle command

Any progress on this ??