diff --git a/agent/HARDWARE-QUEUE.md b/agent/HARDWARE-QUEUE.md
index f8ad2b1..af8a425 100644
--- a/agent/HARDWARE-QUEUE.md
+++ b/agent/HARDWARE-QUEUE.md
@@ -616,6 +616,15 @@ Everything else below stays open; order is convenience, not a gate.
       Acer's own fontconfig/DPI resolving `ch` the same way — try it under a
       **JetBrainsMono 14 theme** (summer-day/night, kanagawa), the widest case.
 
+- [ ] **Theme-switch bar round-trip (2026-07-19 waybar-poke + gtk-pin fix)** —
+      after `nomarchy-pull` + `nomarchy-home`, switch dark → light → dark
+      (e.g. boreal → kiln-clay → kiln). Pass = the bar visibly restarts on
+      each switch and the workspace digits land per theme (dark-on-accent
+      active pill, dimmed inactives on dark themes) with no color carried
+      over from the previous theme; then start/stop a screen recording and
+      toggle airplane mode — the supervisor must survive both pokes
+      (`pgrep -lx nomarchy-waybar` still lists it).
+
 ## Latitude 5310 / 5410 only
 - [ ] **v1 QA batch on-hardware pass** (583708d batch was QEMU-verified) —
       general smoke before the next `main → v1` promotion (broader than
diff --git a/agent/JOURNAL.md b/agent/JOURNAL.md
index f12002a..1ceea89 100644
--- a/agent/JOURNAL.md
+++ b/agent/JOURNAL.md
@@ -19,6 +19,26 @@ Template:
 
 ---
 
+## 2026-07-19 — stale workspace-digit colors after theme switch (prev commit + this)
+- **Task:** Bernardo live: bar digit colors wrong for boreal /
+  executive-slate / kiln after switching; a reboot "fixed" it.
+- **Did:** Root-caused on Newton. (1) Every bar poke used `pkill -x
+  waybar`, but the nixpkgs wrap renamed the comm `.waybar-wrapped` —
+  switches never restarted/reloaded the bar (and unanchored RTMIN pokes
+  were killing the supervisor). (2) Stylix's #98 bare `button label` pin
+  outranks the colors waybar.css inherits onto `#workspaces button`,
+  frozen at bar start — all three screenshots' digits were kiln-clay's
+  @text. Fixed the pattern in 7 sites; scoped the #98 pin to dialogs.
+- **Verified:** V0 flake check + py_compile; V1 HM generation + system
+  toplevel; live on Newton (V3-grade): restart via the new pattern,
+  RTMIN poke with the supervisor surviving, pixel-verified boreal digits
+  (@base-on-accent active, @muted inactive) under the scoped gtk.css.
+- **Pending:** HARDWARE-QUEUE: deploy round-trip after nomarchy-home.
+  NB: waybar 0.15.0 `reload_style_on_change` is inert with HM symlinks
+  (upstream); harmless now that the restart path works.
+- **Next suggestion:** close the queue entry once Bernardo's deploy
+  round-trip passes.
+
 ## 2026-07-17 — #143 closed via upstream's own knob; executive-slate gets the icon grid (f899b19 + this)
 - **Task:** Bernardo live: rofi#2317 got a maintainer reply → adopt; plus
   "make executive-slate's app menu the boreal-style icon grid".
diff --git a/docs/ROADMAP.md b/docs/ROADMAP.md
index 4339ee6..94fafe7 100644
--- a/docs/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/docs/ROADMAP.md
@@ -1947,6 +1947,12 @@ Design/decision records and a running log of shipped work (items marked
   unsupervised/custom bars; `reload_style_on_change` stays for manual
   `home-update` restyles. VM-verified on the headless software-GL
   desktop: SIGKILL → new pid; clean kill → respawn; SIGUSR2 → alive.
+  **Follow-up (2026-07-19):** a later waybar package wrap renamed the
+  comm to `.waybar-wrapped`, silently no-oping every `pkill -x waybar`
+  (switches stopped touching the bar → the stale workspace-digit-color
+  bug), while the *unanchored* RTMIN pokes substring-matched the
+  supervisor's `nomarchy-waybar` comm and killed it. All pokes now use
+  `-x 'waybar|\.waybar-wrapped'`.
 - ✓ **`sys-rebuild`** (Latitude QA request): the no-update twin of
   `sys-update` — snapshot-first system rebuild against the *current*
   lock, for config-only changes; `home-update` was already lock-free.
diff --git a/modules/home/stylix.nix b/modules/home/stylix.nix
index 80bab19..6c68f4d 100644
--- a/modules/home/stylix.nix
+++ b/modules/home/stylix.nix
@@ -128,8 +128,18 @@ in
               color: #${base16.base00};
             }
 
-            /* Dialog / message-box action buttons (#98). */
-            button, button label,
+            /* Dialog / message-box action buttons (#98) — dialog-scoped
+               ONLY, never a bare `button` / `button label`. This file is
+               loaded by every GTK3 process including Waybar, and a direct
+               `button label` rule beats the color waybar.css puts on
+               `#workspaces button` (a rule matching the label node always
+               outranks color inherited from the button), so the old bare
+               pin painted the workspace digits with whatever palette was
+               live when the bar process started — the 2026-07-19
+               stale-digit bug: switch themes, digits keep the previous
+               gtk.css color until the bar restarts. The real #98 fix is
+               forcing adw-gtk3-dark (below); these pins are only the
+               dialog safety net for a light sheet slipping in. */
             .dialog-action-area button,
             .dialog-action-area button label,
             messagedialog button,
@@ -138,7 +148,9 @@ in
             .message-dialog button label {
               color: #${base16.base05};
             }
-            button:disabled, button:disabled label {
+            .dialog-action-area button:disabled, .dialog-action-area button:disabled label,
+            messagedialog button:disabled, messagedialog button:disabled label,
+            .message-dialog button:disabled, .message-dialog button:disabled label {
               color: alpha(#${base16.base05}, 0.5);
             }
             /* Accent buttons: the palette's base as the label, on a chip