The Island

There is no status bar. Each monitor hosts one Island, at the top centre by default. At Rest it shows the clock and battery, drawing one frame a minute; an Activity takes it over, and it returns to Rest when that finishes.

[island]
edge = "top"
align = "center"
width = 520
height = 400
autohide = false

Presentations

Presentation	What it is
Rest	The baseline: the local time and, if set, the battery’s percent. With both off, the Island hides as it does with autohide
Compact	The primary Activity in a compact pill: concise glyphs, progress meters, track titles
Split	A secondary Satellite joins, and the Island divides into two connected segments
Peek	The pointer resting on it shows richer detail and inline controls without expanding
Tray	Rest’s own small form: the time’s Peek, then the apps’ tray items, raised by the hover delay
Expanded	A click or shortcut opens one full Surface for that Activity or control domain

Secondary ongoing Activities stay visible beside the body as Satellites. Dots nested in the trailing end report the microphone, camera and screen cast — the privacy cluster.

Moving and settling

timings sets how long each move takes: hover (120 ms), expand (144), surface_change (176), collapse (144), grace (250) and osd (1200). appearance.motion picks how the Island and Dock settle — bouncy, smooth, snappy or playful — and animation.speed scales every transition from 25% to 400%.

Note

A body is never larger than island.width by island.height, made smaller on an output with no room. The canvas never resizes during a morph, so the space the Island takes does not depend on what it shows.

See also

Surfaces, Modules, and shell configuration.