- Expand/collapse controls now use consistent fullscreen ()/unfullscreen ()
glyphs: the quad "Back" and the taskbar-panel "Back" became buttons (matching
the appdrawer's - toggle).
- The taskbar panel takeover now plays the same bouncy quad-pop scale as the quads
when it expands, so every expansion in the menu is animated.
- monitor-manager (curses) and timer-pick (bash TUI) now use the CyberQueer accent
palette (red #E40046 + violet #5018dd, true-colour with ANSI fallback) instead of
cyan/green, matching the rest of the config.
- Added a .stepper-value style for the Columns count stepper.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SUN7gg6GGfnToghMijLm5Y
astal-menu: the taskbar ⤢ toggle now collapses the compact strip and mounts
its workspace/window panel as a takeover overlay covering the 2x2 quads (with
a Back button), instead of a popover/inline reveal. QuadGrid gains a generic
takeover overlay; the menu window coordinates show/hide and resets on close.
hypr: new "Columns" layout (scrolling backend presented as independent columns)
with a menu dropdown to pick orientation — "Left / Right" or "Up / Down" — via a
new dir_labels manifest field. The layout menu now tracks direction dropdowns and
fit switches per-layout, so a second directional layout no longer clobbers the
first.
binds/scripts: focus & window-move keys (hjkl + arrows) route through a new
hypr-nav helper so they stay screen-absolute in the scrolling/columns layouts
(the layout otherwise resolves a perpendicular direction onto "scroll the tape",
rotating the keys with scrolling:direction). Adds explicit cross-monitor binds:
Super+,/. focus prev/next monitor, Super+Shift+,/. move the window there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SUN7gg6GGfnToghMijLm5Y
The .quad-pop CSS animation stayed applied for the whole time a quad was expanded,
so every re-layout of the expanded card (module content streaming in, the compact
grid updating beneath the overlay) restarted the transform animation — making the
pop repeat continuously. Remove the class ~340ms after expanding (just past the
300ms animation) so it plays exactly once and no later re-layout can retrigger it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
- Main open: enable Hyprland's `layers` animation with the bouncy myBezier curve and
a slide style, so the layer-shell control centre slides in from the top edge with a
little overshoot instead of just appearing. (Also gives notifications/bar the same
springy slide, which suits the DE.) A per-namespace layerrule was tried first but
this hyprlua build doesn't honour its animation timing.
- Quad expand: a CSS @keyframes scale-bounce (scale 0.82 -> 1.05 -> 1.0) added to the
expanded card on expand and cleared on collapse so it replays every time. Verified
GTK4 CSS transforms/keyframes render on this build, and that the card scales during
the animation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
- Switches: give them a fixed pill with a bordered round knob (the reset theme
left them shapeless).
- Close (x) button: inset with a margin so it no longer overlaps the drawn border.
- Height: the panel overflowed the monitor. Trim the map compact height, quad
min-height, card padding, grid/panel spacing, top margin, and drawer strip so it
fits (≈1600 -> ≈1310 logical on a 1440 display).
- App drawer expand button: use the same nf-fa-expand/compress glyphs as the module
expand buttons instead of chevrons, so all expand controls look uniform.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
The panel showed a solid #1a1a1a slab between modules. Root cause: the CyberQueer
GTK theme is installed as ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css (a symlink), which GTK4 loads
at PRIORITY_USER (800) — above our PRIORITY_APPLICATION (600) — and its reset rule
`* { background-color: #1a1a1a }` painted every node, including the structural
containers between modules. Our transparency overrides silently lost the cascade.
Fixes:
- theme.py: load the app stylesheets at USER+1 so they sit just above the
user-level theme symlink and actually win.
- style.css: blank the structural container nodes (window/.panel/overlay/revealer/
grid/scrolledwindow/viewport/drawingarea) so the desktop shows between modules.
- window.py/quadgrid.py: draw each module's card background with the Cairo
bordered(fill_bg=True) so cards stay opaque (incl. rounded corners) while the
gaps go transparent — this GTK build doesn't paint CSS backgrounds on containers,
hence the Cairo fill.
Popovers/buttons keep their backgrounds (the theme's rule still covers those nodes;
only structural containers are overridden). Verified visually end-to-end.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
A touch-friendly GTK4 popup control centre (Python + PyGObject, wlr-layer-shell)
launched from the EWW bar or Super+D. Replaces nwg-dock and nwg-drawer.
Layout: a floating, drawn-bordered panel (anchored top-centre so it never blocks
the rest of the screen) with a 2x2 quad grid over a full-width app drawer, plus a
top taskbar. Any quad expands over the others; the drawer expands to the bottom.
Modules:
- Location — static OSM map (backend/staticmap.py) on IP geolocation
(libshumate won't paint tiles in this env; shumate-demo is blank too)
- Weather — wttr.in ANSI art rendered via an SGR parser into a TextView
- Bluetooth — AstalBluetooth: discovery/connect/disconnect + local history
- Network — AstalNetwork wifi + nmcli/ip/ss for IP, DHCP/manual, routes, ports,
public IP; per-feature toggles
- Taskbar — open windows from hyprctl, grouped by app with pop-out per instance
- Favorites — pinned apps (right-click/long-press to pin) atop the app drawer
Notes:
- Frontend is Python/GTK4, not Lua: lgi/Astal-Lua are GTK3-only.
- Module borders are drawn with a Cairo overlay (lib/border.py); this GTK build's
renderer skips CSS border/background on plain container widgets.
- Consumes Astal GObject libs (io/apps/network/bluetooth) via introspection.
Wiring: autostart + Super+D/Super+Shift+A binds, EWW launcher button in all three
bar variants, apply-theme.sh (_colors.css), installer packages, config-updater.
drawer.sh moved to scripts/deprecated/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki