Is it possible to remove Weston toolbar?

Question

Is it possible to have weston run without the toolbar at the top and change the background to black. So that when i have a script in init.d it calls weston first than my qt5 app? such as:

weston &
/home/root/app -platform wayland

Answer 1

you can change the background settings in weston.ini. For the toolbar you just have to return 0 in want_panel function in clients/desktop_shell.c

Answer 2

It is seemed it is determined by the shell/modules loaded when launching weston, by default desktop-shell.so is loaded. You can reference to the man page of weston.ini to try to change it.

Answer 3

You can also just add panel-location string weston.ini [shell] section like this :

[shell] panel-location=""

Answer 4

I had the same problem. This is solution:

open: /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini

add:

panel-position=none

to this file

open terminal or debug, type:

systemctl restart weston

reboot

Answer 5

To combine the possible solutions, just by adding the settings as below to your weston.ini helped me.

**[shell]
panel-location=""
panel-position=none**

Also, Weston.ini is picked up based on this precedence order:-

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/weston.ini   (if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set)
$HOME/.config/weston.ini      (if $HOME is set)
weston/weston.ini in each
           $XDG_CONFIG_DIR           (if $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set)
       /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini    (if $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is not set)
       <current dir>/weston.ini      (if no variables were set)

where environment variable $HOME is the user's home directory, and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is the user specific configuration directory, and $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is a colon ':' delimited listed of configuration base directories, such as /etc/xdg-foo:/etc/xdg.

Answer 6

Run as weston --shell="kiosk-shell.so"

Weston’s kiosk-shell is a simple shell targeted at single-app/kiosk use cases. It makes all top-level application windows fullscreen, and supports defining which applications to place on particular outputs.

Answer 7

I fixed same issue on weston version 9 by modifying /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini

panel-position=none