Add custom templates and other configuration#

In case you want to configure a custom detail of your weston session, you can create a custom desktop-config template.

For most users that is not needed and can be safely skipped.

At runtime#

you can place them into /apps/desktop-config/<filename>.ini

e.g.

cat /apps/desktop-config/mytemplate.ini
[shell]
panel-color=0xFFFFFF00

would turn the taskbar color to yellow.

So can use this template now by adding @mytemplate to your desktop-config launcher configuration.

From a Yocto create a bbappend to desktop-config recipe

mkdir -p recipes-graphics/desktop-config/files/template
touch recipes-graphics/desktop-config/desktop-config_%.bbappend

and now fill the file desktop-config_%.bbappend with the following content

FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"

DC_TEMPLATES:append = " mytemplate"

now place the new mytemplate.ini into recipes-graphics/desktop-config/files/template.