meta-moonforge-graphics

Adds the Weston Wayland compositor, configured for kiosk and single-application display environments.

meta-moonforge-graphics installs and configures Weston, the reference Wayland compositor, tuned for kiosk-style deployments where a single application occupies the full screen.

What it does

Installs Weston and its required dependencies, including gsettings-desktop-schemas.
Configures Weston for kiosk mode: the default panel and built-in demos are removed so that the compositor presents a bare Wayland surface ready for your application.
Provides a weston.ini base configuration that can be extended from your downstream layer.

Why use it

Embedded products that need a graphical output (digital signage, kiosk terminals, industrial HMIs, in-vehicle displays) require a compositor to manage the display surface. Weston is the standard choice in the embedded Linux ecosystem: it is lightweight, well-maintained, and fully supported by the Yocto/OpenEmbedded layer ecosystem.

This layer is necessary for meta-moonforge-wpe, which adds a WebKit browser that runs inside the Weston compositor, turning any device into a web-based kiosk in minutes.

Dependencies

meta-moonforge-distro, required by all layers.

How to use it

header:
  version: 16
  includes:
    - repo: meta-moonforge
      file: kas/include/layer/meta-moonforge-distro.yml
    - repo: meta-moonforge
      file: kas/include/layer/meta-moonforge-graphics.yml

Extending the Weston configuration

To customise Weston’s behaviour from your downstream layer, add a .bbappend for the weston recipe and install your own weston.ini:

meta-derivative-distro/
  recipes-graphics/
    wayland/
      weston-init.bbappend
      files/
        weston.ini

weston-init.bbappend:

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

See: meta-moonforge-graphics on GitHub