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Amir Alexander Abdelbaki 503b7f3336 fix(astal-menu): float modules on transparent gaps (beat theme's global bg) 
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
 		2026-07-05 19:51:54 +02:00
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backend fix(astal-menu): live-apply widget settings, float modules, IP-locate via traceroute 2026-07-05 17:02:40 +02:00
lib feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
modules fix(astal-menu): live-apply widget settings, float modules, IP-locate via traceroute 2026-07-05 17:02:40 +02:00
services feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
style fix(astal-menu): float modules on transparent gaps (beat theme's global bg) 2026-07-05 19:51:54 +02:00
ui fix(astal-menu): float modules on transparent gaps (beat theme's global bg) 2026-07-05 19:51:54 +02:00
.gitignore feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
README.md feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
appservices.py feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
main.py fix(astal-menu): stop LD_PRELOAD leaking into launched apps (Firefox crash) 2026-07-05 19:14:16 +02:00
module_base.py feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
paths.py feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
registry.py feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
settings.py feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
theme.py fix(astal-menu): float modules on transparent gaps (beat theme's global bg) 2026-07-05 19:51:54 +02:00
window.py fix(astal-menu): float modules on transparent gaps (beat theme's global bg) 2026-07-05 19:51:54 +02:00

README.md

astal-menu

A touch-friendly GTK4 popup control centre for the hyprlua desktop, replacing nwg-dock and nwg-drawer. Triggered from the EWW top bar (or Super+D).

Layout: a 2×2 quad grid of feature modules over a full-width application drawer. Any quad can expand to overlay the other three; the drawer can expand to the bottom of the screen. A single margined root box letterboxes the menu identically in every state.

Stack

  • Frontend: Python + PyGObject + GTK4, as a wlr-layer-shell surface (gtk4-layer-shell). Chosen over Lua because lgi/Astal-Lua only support GTK3.
  • Location map: a static OSM image stitched from tiles (backend/staticmap.py, Pillow). libshumate does not paint tiles in this environment (the official shumate-demo shows the same blank map), though tile downloads work — hence the static fallback.
  • Services: Astal GObject libraries via introspection — AstalNetwork, AstalBluetooth, AstalApps — plus our own IP-geolocation singleton.
  • Backends: Python/Bash scripts in backend/ (JSON on stdout), run async via Gio.Subprocess so nothing blocks the UI.
  • Theme: style/_colors.css (@define-color, generated from ~/Dotfiles/colors.conf by apply-theme.sh) + style/style.css.

Running

main.py is single-instance. The autostart launches a hidden resident daemon; verbs are forwarded over D-Bus:

scripts/astal-menu-start.sh          # resident daemon (hidden); sets LD_PRELOAD
scripts/menu-toggle.sh               # --toggle
scripts/menu-toggle.sh appdrawer     # open with the app drawer expanded

astal-menu-start.sh must LD_PRELOAD libgtk4-layer-shell (it loads after libwayland under PyGObject otherwise).

Adding a module

  1. Create modules/<name>.py exposing a top-level SPEC = ModuleSpec(...) whose build(ctx) returns a ModuleInstance(compact=…, expanded=…, …).
    • compact shows in the 2×2 cell; a distinct expanded widget enables the expand button (they must be separate instances — GTK widgets have one parent).
    • Declare per-feature toggles via features=[Feature("id", "Label", default)]; read them with ctx.feature("id"). A disabled quad never calls build().
    • Shared state (network, bluetooth, location) is on ctx.services.
  2. Append its SPEC to ALL_SPECS in registry.py. Nothing else changes.

Files

main.py          app + single-instance IPC        window.py    layer-shell + letterbox
registry.py      module list (extension seam)      settings.py  JSON toggles/order
module_base.py   ModuleSpec / ModuleInstance / ModuleContext
appservices.py   shared Astal services + location
ui/              quadcard, quadgrid, appdrawer
modules/         location, weather, bluetooth, network
services/        location (geolocation singleton)
lib/             ansi (SGR→TextTag), proc (async subprocess)
backend/         geolocate.py, weather.sh, network.sh
style/           _colors.css, style.css