- Add a minimalist system-stats line at the top of the panel: CPU / MEM / GPU / disk
utilisation + network down/up rate, read straight from /proc and /sys on a 2s timer
(no subprocess). ui/statsbar.py.
- Opening side is selectable: `main.py --side top|bottom|left|right` (also via
`menu-toggle.sh <verb> <side>` or just `menu-toggle.sh <side>`). The panel anchors
flush to that edge, and the compositor's layer slide brings it in from there.
Unified all layer anchoring into MenuWindow._apply_anchor.
- App drawer now does a bouncy pop-expand (CSS scale, play-once guard like the quads).
- Tighten the action-pill buttons vertically (padding 6->1px, min-height 32->22) so
they stop wasting vertical space.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XUWCXM4KhjRkwheaA3X7bP
- Connect flow now shows real status: a spinner + Cancel while connecting, and a red
"failed" tag + Retry if the attempt stops without linking (via notify::connecting
going false) or a 25s timeout backstop fires. Previously Connect gave no feedback
and could look stuck forever.
- Add a Forget button on paired devices (adapter.remove_device) to unpair them.
- Track per-device pending/failed state so the row reflects connecting/failed/
connected/paired accurately.
Verified the paired row renders Forget + Connect and the connected row renders
Forget + Disconnect.
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
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
- 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
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
- Borders: with the app stylesheet now above the theme, the CSS `.quad-card`
border rendered a second ring concentric with the Cairo bordered() ring. Drop the
CSS border/background/radius from the card boxes so only the Cairo card shows.
- Bluetooth: the power/scan/connect controls were correctly wired to AstalBluetooth,
but the adapter was rfkill soft-blocked, making set_powered a silent no-op. The
power toggle now runs `rfkill unblock bluetooth` before powering on.
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
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