Blessed from the CI artifact of the passing headless run (Waybar / CI smoke
test / 12:34 on a pinned DejaVu Sans bar). Regenerate from a new artifact when
an intended visual change trips the comparison — see test/smoke/README.md.
The static custom modules used `exec: echo` (empty output), so the modules
rendered nothing and the bar strip was blank. Have exec print the label text
and use the default `{}` format.
Launch the real Waybar binary inside a headless, software-rendered sway
compositor and verify it actually runs and renders — something the unit
tests and build jobs never do.
- test/smoke/run.sh: boots sway (WLR_BACKENDS=headless, pixman), starts
waybar, asserts it stays alive with no fatal log, optionally grabs a
screenshot with grim
- level 1: real modules (clock/cpu/memory/disk) load without crashing
- level 2: deterministic config is screenshotted and checked to be non-blank
- level 3: screenshot compared to test/smoke/reference.png (fuzz 8%,
800px tolerance); screenshot + diff uploaded as artifacts
- .github/workflows/smoke.yml runs it on push/PR
The reference image must be blessed from a CI artifact (see test/smoke/README.md).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Alex