The bar hosts the StatusNotifierWatcher in-process (sni_watcher.py), so the
*_sync proxy creation and RegisterStatusNotifierHost call blocked the main
loop waiting on a reply only that same loop could produce — a self-deadlock
freezing the whole bar (clock, holo intro) until the 25s D-Bus timeout. Switch
to new_for_bus + call (async, fire-and-forget).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
kitty: regenerate scanlines.png — the old tile was a washed-out near-white
overlay that milked out the terminal. Replace it with a dark holographic tile
(gentle violet #5018DD tint + crisp violet scanlines every 4px + sparse
magenta/crimson grain) on a transparent base, so the window's own opacity/blur
still show the wallpaper through it. Seamlessly tileable; matches the suite's
HologramOverlay palette.
station-bar: add a caffeine badge to the right zone, a faithful port of
hyprlua's 4-state eww caffeine widget. Click toggles the shared idle-inhibit
lock via the same scripts/caffeine.sh; the glyph tracks manual inhibit (coffee)
/ webcam presence (eye) / idle (sleep) and glows magenta while presence holds
the lock, reading the same lock/flag files the status scripts do. Nerd Font
codepoints verified against Agave's cmap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The materialise intro was driven only by the frame-clock tick, which stops
advancing when the compositor withholds frame callbacks (e.g. the bar restarted
into an idle compositor) — freezing it at t=0 with content stuck at opacity 0,
i.e. permanent static. Arm a GLib.timeout alongside start_intro() that
force-resolves the intro regardless, so content always appears.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Right-click now fetches the item's com.canonical.dbusmenu layout and renders it
in a GTK popover anchored to the icon, instead of calling the SNI ContextMenu
method. Fixes menus opening at screen (0,0) for apps that implement it (Discord)
and gives a menu at all for dbusmenu-only apps (nm-applet, blueman). Supports
sections, submenus, checkmarks, icons and Event-on-activate; themed to match the
suite (.station-tray-menu).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
hyprdrive has no DE component owning org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher (waybar/eww
used to), so tray apps had nowhere to register and every SNI host — including the
bar's own tray.py — saw an empty tray.
- sni_watcher.py: a minimal StatusNotifierWatcher — owns the name, tracks
registered items/hosts, drops items on NameOwnerChanged, and emits the
registration signals + PropertiesChanged so hosts stay live.
- main.py: start it in do_startup, before the bars.
- tray.py: watch the watcher name (bus_watch_name) instead of connecting once, so
the host attaches when our watcher appears and recovers if any watcher restarts.
Verified: the watcher owns the bus name, IsStatusNotifierHostRegistered is true,
and running tray apps (udiskie, nm-applet, blueman, Steam) register + render in
the bar the moment it comes up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second daily-driving pass over the Cosmonaut Shell suite.
Animations (all four surfaces):
- Removed every slide-in reveal; each surface now only "materialises out of
static" (compositor no_anim layerrule + in-app hologram intro). Longer, noisier,
gradual fade-in: the content opacity ramps 0->1 (fade_widget) instead of a solid
haze block popping on. Added a quick reverse "dissolve into static" outro on
close. horizon-dock/orbit-menu use a slower 2.4s intro. Fixed a warm-reopen bug
where a stale frame-clock baseline skipped the intro entirely.
horizon-dock:
- Center planet: bigger, sinks ~1/4 below the screen edge, translucent holographic
body with a wide bloom halo, specular sheen, rim glow and a breathing pulse.
- Ornamental satellite glyphs: two rings framing the windows orbit, each with a
random 3-7 satellites whose motion source is randomised (toward-cursor / mouseX
/ mouseY), so the quiet edges feel alive.
- Super+D now opens horizon-dock (astro-menu moved to Super+Shift+D).
orbit-menu:
- Classic dmenu mode: `--dmenu` reads newline items from stdin, shows them as ring
nodes, prints the choice to stdout (exit 1 on cancel). Standalone NON_UNIQUE app
so it never routes to the resident daemon; scripts/orbit-dmenu.sh wraps it with
the gtk4-layer-shell preload.
astro-menu (sci-fi rework):
- Replaced the map module with "Ship Systems": a Gtk.Grid system monitor backed by
backend/sysmon.sh. CPU->Thrusters, GPU->Hyperdrive, RAM->Life Support Systems,
Storage->Cargo Hold (one aligned row per mounted drive with capacity), each a
bracketed -<████░░░░>- usage meter + -( 54°C )- temperature readout.
- Renamed Bluetooth -> System Radio, Network -> Laser Antenna Uplink.
- Weather gains a "Planetary Environment Report" headline.
station-bar:
- The battery readout uses a fuel-tank glyph (the ship runs on fuel).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Daily-driving pass over the Cosmonaut Shell suite: transparency, holographic
effects, and layout/geometry fixes across every component built for the DE.
Global holographic layer (astro-menu/horizon-dock/station-bar lib/hologram.py):
- edge-fade mask (A8 DEST_OUT) so scanlines fade out at panel borders
- magenta particle field; "materialize from static" noise-mask intro animation
- optional clip_func so the mask follows non-rectangular / animated content
- universal `* { background-color: transparent }` at USER+1 to defeat the
CyberQueer theme painting opaque bg on plain containers; blur layer_rules
astro-menu: magenta text (alt red) for readability; thinner, glowier borders;
rounded map-texture corners; fixed transparency stacking + square corners.
orbit-menu: scanline mask now follows the zoom transition into a submenu.
horizon-dock: reworked into an orbit-menu node ~1/3 on-screen (<=2/3 width) with
horizon perspective (arched orbit rows), a non-functional center clock-sphere,
orbit glyph decorations, graceful edge fade-out, and centered/filled orbits;
tray removed; giant-surface clip fixed.
station-bar: redesigned as an extra Horizon Dock orbit — bare glowing color-coded
glyphs (no pills), width-adaptive, one bar per monitor, Super+Z toggles the
focused monitor's bar. Clickable HUD trapezoid around the title opens Astro Menu.
Workspaces are now per-monitor: each bar shows only its own monitor's workspaces
and highlights that monitor's active workspace. Populated workspaces show the
station glyph, empty ones the bare spaceship + number; the focused one is framed
by a `-< >-` reticle with the rocket prepended when there's a station to dock at.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New leaner Hyprland DE (setup/modules/Desktop-Environments/hyprdrive.sh),
a sibling of hyprlua that drops the older EWW/nwg-shell/wofi/walker/
ulauncher stack in favor of a purpose-built, GTK4 layer-shell component
suite sharing one CyberQueer hologram visual language:
- orbit-menu radial power/utility menu (focal-point zoom nav, holographic
overlay, cosmetic satellites)
- horizon-dock hover-scrollable orbital app dock (open windows/favorites/
all apps orbits, SNI tray satellite)
- astro-menu astal-menu re-themed as a hologram info display (Location/
Weather/Bluetooth/Network quads, taskbar, app drawer)
- station-bar the EWW top bar's replacement ("Voidstation Status Bar"):
a thin curved layer-shell bar tracking Hyprland workspaces/
active window natively over .socket2.sock, no polling
Every component now shares one consistent hologram treatment: translucent
violet panel/node fills (replacing solid gray), a config-toggleable
scanline+sweep+noise overlay (lib/hologram.py, ported to horizon-dock and
station-bar to match orbit-menu/astro-menu), and glow-on-hover throughout.
Also adds horizon-dock to hyprlua (built there first, before hyprdrive
existed) and wires dependency checks, config-updater entries, and
apply-theme.sh color sync for every new component across both DEs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Nu8JkQ95hPAT8vADeGDAmL
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki