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
New GTK4 layer-shell radial menu (desktopenvs/hyprlua/orbit-menu/), following
astal-menu's single-instance D-Bus daemon conventions. Super+Shift+O opens
straight into a Power ring (sleep/reboot/poweroff/soft-reboot via hyprshutdown);
Super+Ctrl+O opens the full 5-category root (Power, Tools, Scripts sourced live
from ~/Documents/Scripts, Management, and a live open-Windows list with
go-to/bring-here/close/force-kill/get-pid/send-to-workspace actions). Adds a
round launcher button to all 3 eww bar variants with matching glow/hover CSS.
Also retunes hypridle (lock 30s, sleep 1min) and adds a HibernateDelaySec
systemd-sleep.conf.d fragment (deployed by sysupdate.sh) so the machine
hibernates ~80 minutes after going idle instead of drifting to sleep indefinitely.
presence-detect.sh no longer mirrors the camera through a v4l2loopback device,
so the module setup is dead weight. Remove it:
- delete etc-v4l2loopback/ (modprobe.d + modules-load.d configs)
- drop the deploy blocks and linux-headers/v4l2loopback-dkms/v4l2loopback-utils
package installs from the niri and hyprlua DE installers
- remove _ensure_v4l2loopback() and its call from sysupdate.sh
- reword enroll-biometrics.sh's loopback filter comment (kept as a harmless
defensive exclusion) so it no longer points at the deleted config
Live system cleanup (module unload + /etc configs) is separate and needs root.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
presence-detect.sh now feeds the real webcam into a v4l2loopback virtual
device (/dev/video42) via a self-healing ffmpeg background process, and reads
motion off that mirror instead of opening the physical camera directly. This
means the daemon's 20s-interval checks never contend with other apps (video
calls, howdy) for exclusive camera access. Falls back to direct camera access
if the loopback isn't set up yet, so the feature degrades gracefully rather
than breaking.
New etc-v4l2loopback/ ships the modules-load.d/modprobe.d config (fixed
video_nr=42, exclusive_caps=1) following the repo's existing etc-greetd/
etc-lightdm/ convention. Deliberately no runtime sudo/modprobe calls inside
the daemon itself — the module loads declaratively at boot instead, matching
this repo's existing caution around unattended sudo.
hyprlua.sh and niri.sh installers now pull in linux-headers,
v4l2loopback-dkms, and v4l2loopback-utils and deploy the module config
immediately. sysupdate.sh gained _ensure_v4l2loopback(), wired into
sync_configs(), so existing machines pick up the new packages and /etc
config on their next --config or --both run without needing a fresh install.
enroll-biometrics.sh's camera picker now excludes the loopback device itself
(by card_label) so configuring the real camera can't accidentally target the
mirror it feeds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
sysupdate.sh's config sync now closes several gaps where a fresh or drifted
machine would silently be missing pieces that config-updater can't reach
(it only copies files, never installs packages or touches /etc):
- _ensure_plymouth_regreet: detects whether the machine is still on
greetd+tuigreet (or no greeter at all) and offers to run the existing
migrate-to-greetd.sh tool rather than duplicating its logic.
- _ensure_astal_menu_deps / _ensure_hyprshutdown: detect and offer to install
the AUR/pacman packages astal-menu and the new power binds need but that
config-updater never installs on its own.
- _redeploy_usr_configs: hypr/usr/ is intentionally excluded from the
automated sync to protect per-device customisation (monitors.lua,
wallpaper.conf), which left feature/bind updates in the dotfiles template
with no path onto an already-provisioned machine. Adds an explicit,
file-by-file dialog checklist (device-specific files default off) so those
updates can be pulled in deliberately instead of hand-copied.
Diagnosed the intermittent "login won't take input / frozen cursor" on this
dual-AMD-GPU box: cage (wlroots) could pick the display-less iGPU, and amdgpu
hardware cursors can freeze. regreet-session.sh now:
- pins WLR_DRM_DEVICES to the first DRM card with a connected output (portable,
evaluated live — no hard-coded PCI path),
- sets WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 (fixes the stuck cursor),
- runs cage with `-m last` so the login card centres on a single monitor instead
of the default "extend", which stretched the canvas across all three monitors
and left the card floating in the middle of the span.
sysupdate.sh now deploys /etc/greetd config (config/regreet/session, not PAM) when
greetd is the active greeter, using the single primed sudo credential.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SUN7gg6GGfnToghMijLm5Y
- hyprshutdown wired into the graceful power flow (Super+Shift+O logout,
Super+Ctrl+O power off, Super+Ctrl+Shift+O reboot) so apps close cleanly with a
UI before Hyprland exits, instead of a hard systemctl call. Added to the hyprlua
package list.
- Scrolling layout: default window is now 76% of the monitor along the scroll axis
(column_width 0.5 -> 0.76).
- sysupdate.sh: primes sudo once at startup and keeps the credential alive for the
whole run, so no later step re-prompts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SUN7gg6GGfnToghMijLm5Y
The hypr/ sync removed each live item with `rm -rf` before `cp`. For
hyprland.lua this opened a window where the file was absent; if Hyprland's
live config watcher reloaded during it, it errored ("cannot open
hyprland.lua") and wrote out its fallback hyprland.conf stub, which then
leaked into the repo.
Stage each item into a temp dir on the same filesystem and `mv` it into
place — for files this is an atomic rename(2), so the watcher never sees
hyprland.lua missing. Directories are cleared first (mv can't replace a
non-empty dir), but those aren't watched config files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One-by-one pacman/AUR/flatpak updater with a dialog-based package
selector, Arch RSS news matching per package, optional --AI mode that
sends news to Claude and generates a timestamped /updatescript-<ts>.sh,
and kernel-based baseline detection when /updatestate doesn't exist yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki