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Amir Alexander Abdelbaki ed44b84afa feat(hyprlua/columns): center-focused toggle, mirroring scrolling's fit method 
Adds a "center-focused" switch to the Columns layout's menu tab: when a column
overflows and scrolls, it can now center the focused window in the column
instead of only nudging the pan the minimum amount to keep it in view. Off by
default so existing behavior is unchanged unless explicitly enabled.

The astal-menu switch widget already existed generically (built for scrolling's
native focus_fit_method) but was hard-wired to that one Hyprland option; it's
now layout-aware and reads/writes columns.lua's own persisted state instead.
 		2026-07-08 13:35:47 +02:00
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backend feat(astal-menu): pannable map with night/satellite tiles 2026-07-06 08:59:05 +02:00
lib feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
modules feat(astal-menu): pannable map with night/satellite tiles 2026-07-06 08:59:05 +02:00
services feat(hyprlua): add astal-menu popup, replacing nwg-dock + nwg-drawer 2026-07-05 00:11:39 +02:00
style style(astal-menu): unfullscreen glyphs, animated takeover, CyberQueer TUIs 2026-07-07 13:43:11 +02:00
ui feat(hyprlua/columns): center-focused toggle, mirroring scrolling's fit method 2026-07-08 13:35:47 +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 feat(astal-menu): stats line, side-slide flag, drawer pop, tighter buttons 2026-07-06 09:26:37 +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 fix(astal-menu): working favourites, 3-day weather, deploy-safe settings 2026-07-05 23:35:23 +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 fix(astal-menu): working favourites, 3-day weather, deploy-safe settings 2026-07-05 23:35:23 +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 feat(astal-menu): Columns count stepper + expanded taskbar is one module 2026-07-07 13:31:45 +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