The Location map was a fixed static image with no way to move the viewport, on the
light OSM tiles. Now:
- Drag to pan (re-renders at the new centre; the pin stays anchored to the real
location and clamps to the edge when panned away), scroll to zoom, double-click to
recentre. Panning/zooming coalesce into ~11 renders/sec.
- Tiles default to the dark CartoDB "night" map (fits the theme); a new "Satellite
view" feature toggle switches to Esri World Imagery. staticmap.py gained a style
arg + a separate marker coordinate, and caches tiles per style.
Verified: dark + satellite render, drag re-centres the view (pin goes off-centre),
and the coordinate round-trip is exact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
Favourites:
- Pin/unpin from the drawer never worked: the right-click / long-press gestures
were added to a Gtk.Button in the default (bubble) phase, where the button's own
primary-click gesture swallowed them. Move them to the CAPTURE phase and claim the
sequence (shared add_pin_gestures helper) so they fire reliably and don't also
launch the app.
- Show a ★ on pinned tiles and re-render tiles when favourites change, so the state
is visible and updates live.
- Verified end-to-end (right-click pins, right-click again unpins).
Weather: the expanded quad showed current conditions only. weather.sh used
`${2:-0}`, which rewrote the expanded view's intentionally-empty opts to "0"
(current only); use `${2-0}` so the empty value reaches wttr.in as its default
3-day forecast. Verified the expanded view now renders all three days.
Settings: move settings.json from CONFIG_DIR to XDG_STATE_HOME. The config-updater
`rm -rf`s ~/.config/astal-menu on every deploy, which was wiping pinned favourites
and quad toggles; the state dir is untouched by config sync. Migrates the old file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
Network expanded view is rewritten into four tabs over a new nmcli backend
(backend/nm.py, JSON in/out):
- Adapters: each device foldout with editable IPv4 and IPv6 — Automatic/DHCP
toggle, address, a linked subnet-mask <-> CIDR pair (edit either, the other
follows), gateway; applied via `nmcli connection modify/up`. Manual fields dim
when DHCP is on.
- Routes: the kernel routing table (read-only; editing kernel routes needs root).
- VLAN: pick a parent device + ID to create/bring up a VLAN, list + activate/delete.
- DNS: effective servers per device + a per-connection override (servers +
ignore-automatic).
Verified reads and the write path end-to-end (VLAN add/delete via nmcli; each tab
rendered in a harness).
Also: flatten the settings-cog MenuButton's inner `button` node so it shows one
ring instead of two, and drop the border on the close (x) button.
Weather keeps its wttr.in 3-day forecast (unchanged, per request).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
Widget settings popover toggles now take effect immediately. QuadCard only
rebuilt a card when its Enabled state flipped, so per-module feature toggles
(Wi-Fi, discovery, routes, CLI art, …) were persisted but never applied. The
card now rebuilds whenever any of its own feature values change, and the
incomplete partial per-module refresh callbacks (which also leaked a dead
subscription per rebuild) are dropped in favour of that single path.
Make the backmost surface transparent so each module floats on its own drawn
border/background: force `window`/`.background`/`.panel` transparent, since a
plain `.menu-window` rule did not override the GTK theme's solid window node.
Locate via IP now works and uses traceroute: geolocate.py traceroutes to
1.1.1.1, takes the first globally-routable hop (the ISP egress) and resolves it
through a public geolocation API, falling back to self-IP when traceroute is
missing or finds no public hop. The ip_locate toggle gates the lookup entirely
(placeholder when off). Adds `traceroute` to the hyprlua package list.
Autostart: `sleep 1 && hyprctl reload` after all spawns so layer-shell clients
settle on the final config.
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