Status Bar

Weston supports setting the background color and position of status bar in the shell section of weston.ini configuration file, and setting the quick start program in the launcher section, for example:

# /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini

[shell]
panel-color=0x90ff0000
# the color format is ARGB8888

panel-position=bottom
# top|bottom|left|right|none,none is disable

[launcher]
icon=/usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/apps/utilities-terminal.png
# icon path

path=/usr/bin/gnome-terminal
# quick start command

Currently, Weston does not support setting the size of status bar. You have to modify in the code level when need some adjustments:

// weston/clients/desktop-shell.c

static void panel_configure(void *data,
struct weston_desktop_shell *desktop_shell, uint32_t edges, struct window *window, int32_t width, int32_t height)
{
...
switch (desktop->panel_position) {
case  WESTON_DESKTOP_SHELL_PANEL_POSITION_TOP: case  WESTON_DESKTOP_SHELL_PANEL_POSITION_BOTTOM:
height = 32; # height break;
case  WESTON_DESKTOP_SHELL_PANEL_POSITION_LEFT: case  WESTON_DESKTOP_SHELL_PANEL_POSITION_RIGHT:
switch (desktop->clock_format) { case CLOCK_FORMAT_NONE:
width = 32; break;
case CLOCK_FORMAT_MINUTES:
width = 150; break;
case CLOCK_FORMAT_SECONDS:
width = 170; break;
}
break;
}