Overhaul the custom "columns" Lua layout and its navigation wiring:
- Flexible sizing: per-column width weights + per-window height weights
(Super+Alt resize), scale-to-fill when a column is underfull, scroll/pan
when overfull. Drops the old fixed viewport/rows window heights.
- Window parking: move u/d within a column parks two windows side by side in
one slot (persistent, split across the column axis with a divider parallel
to the scroll direction; the column closes up so there is no gap); moving a
parked window again pops it out past its partner.
- New windows stack into the working column (with a balance guard) instead of
scattering, so two windows share a column/height by default.
- Cross-monitor focus/move at the column edges (relative +1/-1 selectors).
- hypr-nav: adds resize + scroll kinds; Super+wheel travels along the focused
strip (column / tape) and falls back to workspace switch elsewhere.
- Super+Alt arrows/hjkl route resize through the layout; Super+rightclick
auto-floats then resizes ONLY in columns (no pointer-resize hook for custom
layouts) and is a plain resize everywhere else.
- Reload-safety: hyprctl reload dropped per-ws layout rules + Lua state,
silently reverting columns workspaces to scrolling. init.lua now replays
layouts-state.json (M.restore) and columns.lua re-seeds cols/rows/orient.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
Replaces the scrolling-preset "columns" with a genuine custom tiling layout
(hl.layout.register "lua:columns"): a row of columns where each column is an
INDEPENDENTLY panning vertical strip. Moving focus up/down inside a column pans
only that column to keep the focus in view; the other columns stay frozen — the
combination-lock behaviour that the built-in scrolling engine (single shared tape
offset) structurally can't do.
- columns.lua: recalculate places every window box; per-workspace state holds each
window's column assignment and each column's pan offset. layout_msg handles the
focus/move/count/orient commands. New windows fill the least-populated column;
changing the column count reflows evenly.
- init.lua: for Lua layouts (lua = true), orientation is sent via layout_msg
("orient h|v") instead of the global scrolling:direction option.
- hypr-nav: forwards focus/move/count for the columns layout to hl.dsp.layout(...);
the built-in scrolling path is unchanged.
- binds.lua: Super+Ctrl+Alt+H/J/K/L manage the column / windows-per-view count
(axes follow the workspace's horizontal/vertical orientation).
Menu dropdown for "Columns" now selects orientation (Horizontal / Vertical).
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
- 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
astal-menu-start.sh LD_PRELOADs libgtk4-layer-shell so it loads before
libwayland-client. That preload is only needed at the daemon's own exec — the
library is resident afterwards and the variable is never re-read — but every app
started via AstalApps.launch() inherited it, and Firefox aborts at startup with
libgtk4-layer-shell preloaded (gdk_display_manager_get() before gtk_init()).
main.py now drops LD_PRELOAD from its environment right after startup, so
launched GUI apps (and backend subprocesses) run with a clean env. Verified the
layer-shell library stays mapped and the menu surface still maps afterwards.
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>
The dialog was landing off-cursor and at ~half-screen. Two Hyprland
gotchas were fighting each other: `move` is evaluated against the
window's natural size and `size` is applied afterwards from the top-left,
so a cursor_x-(window_w/2) move centred the pre-shrink window. zenity's
file chooser also ignores --width/--height and has a ~738x363 GTK
minimum.
Fix the size at 760x460 and hard-code the move offsets to half that
(380x230) so the shrunk window lands exactly on the pointer. Drop the
dead zenity --width/--height sizing from the script.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add filepicker-clipboard.sh: a zenity file dialog that copies the
selected file's path (Super+F) or contents (Super+Shift+F) to the
clipboard via wl-copy. Path mode collapses $HOME to ~.
Repoints Super+F / Super+Shift+F from wofi-file-search/foldersearch
(kept as comments) in usr/binds.lua.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Diagnosed live in a VM: the bar rendered twice (two stacked rows). `hyprctl
layers` showed two `gtk-layer-shell` bar surfaces owned by two different eww
pids — an `eww daemon` and an `eww open bar`. The monitor count was correctly 1,
so the per-monitor loop was not at fault.
Root cause: ewwstart.sh started `eww daemon` and then immediately ran `eww open`
in a loop. The first `eww open` frequently ran before the freshly-started daemon
was ready, so it spawned its OWN second daemon and drew a second bar.
Fix (all three DE variants — hyprlua, hyprland, niri):
- Drop the separate `eww daemon`; rely on `eww open` to auto-start the daemon and
block until the window is mapped, so the first call establishes a single daemon
that the rest reuse (no race, no second daemon).
- killall eww + short settle before opening, so a reload starts clean.
- hyprlua/hyprland: count monitors via `hyprctl monitors -j | jq length` instead
of the fragile `hyprctl monitors | grep ID | wc -l`.
- export GTK_THEME (the bare assignment never took effect).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R5kHioUMK3mtf2eiLEozCM
Target ~/.config/hypr/usr/monitors.lua (the config Hyprland actually
loads) so `hyprctl reload` applies layouts immediately; the Dotfiles
repo copy stays the deploy source and is no longer written.
Add overlap geometry helpers and integrate them into the apply flow:
- block moves that would drive a monitor into a neighbor (TUI coords)
- snap positions to the MOVE_STEP_FINE grid to avoid frozen digits
- auto-resolve snap-induced collisions by re-reading the live layout
and nudging the moved monitor clear, up to MAX_RESOLVE_ITERS
- warn on residual overlap after apply and after save/reload
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
logical_width/height now divide physical pixels by scale so the canvas
correctly represents the compositor's coordinate space (e.g. 3840px @1.5x
is 2560 logical px wide, not 3840).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces fixed 0.25 increments with mathematically valid scales p/q
(lowest terms, q≤6) where both width/s and height/s are integers.
For 1920x1200 this gives 25 steps including 2.4, matching what
Hyprland actually applies — no more mismatch between TUI display
and live value.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
hyprctl returns mirrorOf:"none" (string) for non-mirrored monitors.
Python treated it as truthy, causing apply_monitor to always emit a
mirror command, resetting resolution and scale on every keypress.
Also restores monitors.lua with correct mode/scale/transform fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Python curses TUI for managing Hyprland monitors interactively:
- Canvas shows monitors as boxes at their real relative positions
- Tab/Shift+Tab to cycle selection; hjkl/HJKL to move (50/10 px)
- u/i to rotate CCW/CW; n/N to cycle display modes live
- m to mirror (pick target with Tab, confirm with Enter)
- s saves to hypr/usr/monitors.lua atomically
- Scale cached and only recomputed on resize or viewport overflow
- Bound to Super+Shift+M as a centered-L floating kitty popup
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- caffeine: inhibit only `idle`, not `sleep`, so lid close still locks
- binds: lid-close unconditionally calls hyprlock; lid-open does dpms on
- hypridle: reduce lock timeout from 3 min to 2.5 min (150 s)
- eww (all 3 variants): add caffeine toggle button (☕/) with tooltip
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Brio (and most UVC webcams) expose a second /dev/video* node that is
metadata-capture only. The chooser listed it, the existence-only guard
accepted it, and howdy aborted with a bare exit 1 because that node can
never deliver a frame.
- list_cameras: skip nodes with no capture pixel formats (is_capture_device)
- howdy_camera_ok: require an actual capture node, not just an existing path,
so a stale metadata-node device_path triggers reconfiguration
- howdy_add: tee howdy's output and surface the real reason on failure
instead of only the exit code
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Enrollment failed because howdy's own config.ini kept device_path=none,
so VideoCapture aborted before ever opening the lens (generic exit 1).
The presence-detect camera setting is separate and never reached howdy.
- add a "Howdy face auth — configure camera" menu entry that writes
device_path into /usr/lib/security/howdy/config.ini
- guard howdy_add: detect an unset/stale device_path and offer to fix it
before enrolling, instead of surfacing howdy's opaque exit 1
- shared camera chooser shows a live still from the selected node via
kitty's icat (gated on KITTY_WINDOW_ID), used for presence + howdy
- support non-IR colour webcams: detect IR vs colour from the preview's
saturation and tune recording_plugin (ffmpeg) + dark_threshold per type
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
howdy 2.x installs its CLI under root-only /usr/lib/security/howdy/ with
/usr/bin/howdy symlinked into it, so `command -v howdy` reports "not found"
for a normal user — the script wrongly thought howdy wasn't installed and
tried to reinstall it. Detect via the symlink and pacman -Qq instead; all
ops already run through `sudo howdy`.
This version also has no pam_howdy.so — it authenticates via pam_python.so
loading /usr/lib/security/howdy/pam.py. Switch the emitted PAM block to that
module and add pam_python_require() to install the AUR `pam-python`
dependency, replacing the dead pam_howdy.so existence check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
enroll-biometrics.sh used non-existent howdy flags and a broken install
path. Fixes and additions:
- howdy add: label has no flag; feed it via stdin, use -U "$USER"
- howdy remove: id is positional, not -I
- list/test: pass -U "$USER" so all ops target the same account
- install: howdy is AUR-only, so the pacman fallback could never work;
require an AUR helper (yay/paru) and message clearly if absent
- new PAM 2FA menu: enroll FIDO key + wire howdy + pam_u2f into
sudo/hyprlock/login (both factors required, password fallback kept)
- hyprlock gets its own clean fallback (include system-auth) so the
block is not re-run via include login
- idempotent, timestamped backups, and a symmetric teardown option
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Start chamel as a daemon in autostart so keybinds (toggle/clear/
clear-and-deactivate) work on first use. Fix stale hyprland script
paths in frequentcommands.list and add all utility scripts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add presence-detect.sh daemon: checks webcam every 2 min via OpenCV haar
cascade (presence_detect.py); holds systemd-inhibit --what=idle lock while a
face is detected so hypridle never fires during an active session
- Add enroll-biometrics.sh: Cyberqueer dialog TUI for camera configuration/test
and howdy face auth enrollment (add/list/remove/test models)
- Rewrite caffeine.sh (hyprlua + niri): replace kill/restart of idle daemon with
systemd-inhibit --what=idle:sleep + PID file; idle daemon stays running
- Fix hypridle.conf: correct ;; → ; in after_sleep_cmd, add
ignore_dbus_inhibit=false, bump lock timeout 120s→180s to account for the
2-min presence detection cycle
- Wire Super+Shift+B keybind for enrollment TUI in both hyprlua and niri
- Fix niri/scripts/python: was real dir with inner symlink causing cp -rL to
create a nested python/python/ hierarchy; replaced with direct symlink
- Add python-opencv and v4l-utils to hyprlua + niri installers
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
wallpaper-picker now calls write_hyprlock_state() on apply, writing
per-monitor background blocks to ~/.config/hypr/hyprlock-backgrounds.conf.
hyprlock.conf sources that file instead of a hardcoded background block,
with a committed default for first-boot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tablet devices require output= in hl.device() for transform to take
effect, unlike touchscreens which auto-bind to their display.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace hyprctl dispatch exec with direct daemon invocation in caffeine.sh,
and replace defunct \$LAPTOP_KB_ENABLED .conf variable with the actual
device key path in hyprland-toggle-touchpad.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Duplicates desktopenvs/hyprland/ as desktopenvs/hyprlua/ and converts all
Hyprland-specific configs (.conf) to Lua (.lua) using the 0.55+ hl.* API:
hyprland.lua, envvars.lua, monitors.lua, input.lua, autostart.lua,
windowrules.lua, binds.lua. Non-Hyprland tool configs (hyprpaper, hyprlock,
hypridle, hyprtoolkit) remain as .conf. Adds hyprlua.sh installer (user-side
.lua files install to ~/.config/hypr/ for require() resolution) and registers
HyprLua as the recommended DE option in tui-install.sh, marking the old
hyprlang-based Hyprland install as legacy.
Also consolidates hyprland (legacy) env vars into hypr-usr/envvars.conf,
removing duplicates from hyprland.conf and monitors.conf.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
