First of three Nomarchy-exclusive dark/light pairs for v1 (with
executive-ivory and kiln/kiln-clay in the next commits), built for
settings.autoTheme: same identity in two lights, so the sunrise flip
feels like the same room brightening.
Boreal Dawn is the boreal forest six hours later — the aurora faded
into a cold clear dawn. Frost-paper base (#EDF2F6), deep-slate text
(10.9:1 AAA), the aurora violet deepened to text-grade (#7458C8,
4.69:1), spruce teal accentAlt (#22766E), GeistMono + the same 6/14/3/12
geometry as boreal so the pair swaps shape-invariant. Assets: whole-swap
waybar (the same three frosted pills, light glass), rofi + 4x3 launcher
grid, btop theme, dawn-treeline wallpaper mirroring aurora-boreal's
composition (same spiky silhouette, dawn gradient, fading stars).
flake.lock: nomarchy-wallpapers 803b48d -> a716cf6 — the single-input
bump carrying backgrounds for all four new slugs (this task is the lock
bump). Preview is a real render: theme-shot VM desktop at 480x270.
Verification: V2. nix flake check --no-build green; checks
theme-contrast (28x7+chips), theme-wholeswap, waybar-language,
waybar-swap-env, rofi-text-width, state-sync-validate, auto-theme (VM
day/night engine) all green. Visual protocol: theme-shot VM renders
viewed for desktop + menu (frosted pills, wash selection, legibility —
screenshots in /nix/store/l26kfdcf...theme-shot-boreal-dawn). audit
findings at/below the boreal baseline (CVD-only + the same
accent-pair Δhue as boreal). V3 pending: real-GL blur, btop visual,
launcher grid on hardware (HARDWARE-QUEUE, this batch's entry).
Design by Fable (palette lab + wallpaper SVGs); asset port by a Sonnet
subagent from the boreal sources; reviewed file-by-file on Fable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New themes/executive-slate/launcher.rasi: @import the sibling rofi.rasi
whole-swap, reshape drun into the 4x3 horizontal-flow grid of 56px icons
(mirrors boreal's launcher), cards at the theme's 4px radius so the flat
control-panel identity holds; the selected card keeps the accent-edge
highlight. Text menus are untouched. Picked up automatically by
hasLauncherOverride in rofi.nix.
V2: headless VM capture (before: vertical list; after: grid renders,
filter/arrow/backspace drive it correctly). Boreal grid re-captured, no
regression. Guest rendering caveat per docs/TESTING.md section 5 applies
to polish judgments; layout and highlight behavior are the claims here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The split line is consumption time: palette JSONs, previews and
per-theme overrides are read at Nix eval and stay in-repo (~3 MB);
wallpapers are runtime-only (swww via nomarchy-state-sync, never read
at eval) and move to the pinned nomarchy-wallpapers non-flake input
(git.bemagri.xyz/bernardo/Nomarchy-Wallpapers @ 803b48d, all 24 slugs).
New overlay drv nomarchy-default-themes merges the two: repo themes
copied, <slug>/backgrounds symlinked from the input, build FAILS if any
theme JSON lacks non-empty backgrounds — the drift guard for the
two-repo dance. nomarchy-state-sync's wrapper now points straight at
the merged store path (no in-package copy): the package drops from
~94 MB to 32.6 KiB and the wallpapers source appears exactly once in
any system closure, ISO included — offline promise intact. Downstream
custom wallpapers still win ($NOMARCHY_PATH/themes is checked first),
and an explicit state.json wallpaper path still works.
checks re-pointed at the merged tree (theme-wholeswap,
state-sync-validate, auto-theme); theme-contrast and airplane stay on
./themes (JSON/text only). import-palettes.py + README updated;
ROADMAP § Faster switches marked shipped; LATER now carries only the
pre-built-variants follow-on. Also files #151 (v1 launch plan, [human])
with measured history numbers: the 107 MiB pack is 94 MB wallpaper
blobs; all 848 text commits pack to ~15-20 MiB — recommendation
recorded to filter-repo at the GitHub move, not fresh-start.
Verification: V2 — nix flake check --no-build green; theme-wholeswap,
state-sync-validate, auto-theme VM check, downstream-template-home all
green; wallpapers store path exactly once in the state-sync closure;
`list` works from a scratch state dir. V3 queued: live wallpaper render
+ bg-next + custom-override precedence after next pull (HARDWARE-QUEUE).
Lock gained exactly the one input node. Implementation by a Sonnet
subagent; design and review on Fable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bernardo saw Recovery ellipsize on a 2560x1440 external, which falsified
the item's model (40% + Inter 11 → "only below 1920"). Real cause: text
menus render through themes/<slug>/rofi.rasi, where boreal + neon-glass
pinned width: 620px (fixed — a wide panel buys nothing) while seven used
40%, and the font is whatever that file says — mostly monospace, far
wider than the Inter that was measured. The modelled combination ships in
no theme.
The insight: a menu must fit its longest label, which is a count of
characters in the THEME's font — so the window must scale with the font,
not the screen. 40% gives a 1366 panel 546px and a 2560 one 1024px for
the same row, and a 14pt mono theme needs ~25% more room than an 11pt one
on both; a percentage cannot see either fact.
Rofi has the right unit (`ch` = width of one digit in the current font)
and `calc( a min b )` to cap it, so every text menu — generated and all
nine whole-swaps — is now `width: calc( 84ch min 65% )`. 84ch fits the
longest row we ship (69 chars) plus icon and padding; the cap is
Bernardo's condition (never sprawl on a low-res panel) and it is
measured, not assumed.
Verified on hardware, not by arithmetic: 84ch = 756px in GeistMono 11 and
924px in JetBrainsMono 14; `calc( 84ch min 300px )` → 300px, so the clamp
really clamps. Screenshots at both ends — the real Recovery menu at 756px
(29% of 2560) with every label complete, and the Acer worst case
reproduced pixel-exactly (888px = 65% of 1366, JetBrainsMono 14) also
complete. Grid views override width per-invocation and are untouched.
checks.rofi-text-width guards the class, proven by pinning boreal back to
620px and watching it fail by name. Acer V3 queued for its own fontconfig.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#139 — calcurse/doctor floated full-screen. Two faults stacked, which is
why it looked like the float rules were dead:
1. Hyprland 0.55.4 silently ignores percentage `size` rules. Matrix on
hardware (both orders, kitty memory off): `size 60% 65%` never
applies, `size 1536 936` applies either way, configerrors empty both
times. Rule order was a red herring.
2. Kitty defaults to remember_window_size=yes and replays the last OS
window's size into every float — so after a tiled terminal, a sheet
opens maximized. This is the Ghostty regression: Ghostty had no such
memory, so fault 1 stayed invisible until #95.
Fix: remember_window_size=no (floats must be deterministic) and the sheets
ask for their own size — term-sheet.nix reads the focused monitor and
hands kitty the px, because px in a rule cannot mean "a fraction of *this*
screen" and one pair cannot serve 2560x1440 and the 1366x768 Acer (#131).
Those windows keep float/center and deliberately carry no size rule.
#141 — the updates click did nothing: whole-swaps hand-wrote
`sh -c '$TERMINAL …'` and Waybar has no TERMINAL (home.sessionVariables →
login shells only; the bar is spawned by Hyprland). Fixed at the root:
`nomarchy-updates upgrade-window` opens its own window, so all five call
sites name one env-free command and a theme file stops having an opinion
about terminals. checks.waybar-swap-env guards the class.
Bernardo asked mid-task for the update window to float — it is now the
third caller of the sheet helper (com.nomarchy.updates, 45%x50%).
V3 on the dev box: calendar 1536x936, doctor 1408x1008, updates 1152x720
— exactly the intended fractions, floating and centred; #141 driven under
`env -i` with no TERMINAL, matching Waybar's real environment; the guard
proven by reintroducing the bug. Acer V3 queued.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Airplane: runtime Wi-Fi+Bluetooth kill-switch with prior-state restore,
System menu + SUPER+CTRL+R, Waybar plane glyph (self-hides, whole-swap
parity). Fastfetch: chafa sextants at 24×12 (was block 20×10) for a
finer monogram; V2 kitty screenshots under boreal and summer-night.
The bar '*' matches every node directly — including menu labels — so an
inherited font from 'menu' never applies. 'menu, menu *' out-specifies
it. (Real-menu screenshot showed arrows/checks/icons fixed by 8eb672b
but labels still in the bar's mono face.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The e8658fe cure (USER-priority gtk.css counter-rules) verified in a
plain GTK app but not in the real Waybar-hosted nm-applet menu: Waybar
adds its provider at GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_USER as well
(src/client.cpp), and in practice its rules win the tie against
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css on GTK 3.24 — reproduced by injecting the
bar stylesheet above USER priority: arrow, checkmark and separator all
vanish, matching the live menu exactly.
The only placement that wins at ANY provider priority is inside the
same stylesheet: after each '*' reset, restore the CSS-sized menu
nodes (menuitem arrow 16px, check/radio 14px, separator 1px line) and
give menus a text face instead of the bar's glyph font. Applied to
boreal + executive-slate waybar.css and waybar.nix generatedStyle;
stylix.nix comment corrected (its rules now cover ordinary GTK apps
only).
Ground truth checked over D-Bus first: nm-applet exports per-network
Wi-Fi icons as dbusmenu icon-data, and with gtk-menu-images=1 the
connected network's icon already renders in the live menu — the
remaining loss was arrows/checks/separators, all CSS-box nodes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two corrections to ac7e6bd, which broke the bar it meant to spare:
1. Scoping the waybar '*' reset to 'window#waybar *' gave every reset
property id-level specificity, so it started BEATING the later
class rules (Boreal's pill border-radius/borders, workspace pills)
that plain '*' correctly lost to — visibly wrecking the bar.
Reverted all three stylesheets to the plain '*' block (bar restored
byte-identical to pre-ac7e6bd) and instead restored the arrow where
priority genuinely outranks waybar's stylesheet: stylix's gtk.css
loads at USER priority (800) vs waybar's APPLICATION (600), so a
'menu menuitem arrow { min-width/height: 16px }' there survives the
reset in Waybar-hosted menus — the exact mechanism the neighbouring
check/radio rule already uses for the same collapse. NB comments at
each '*' block warn against re-scoping.
2. The 'missing icons' were never just arrows: GTK3 ships
gtk-menu-images=false since 3.10, so image menu items (nm-applet's
Wi-Fi list, udiskie) render iconless everywhere. Set
gtk.gtk3.extraConfig.gtk-menu-images = 1 (merges into the
settings.ini Stylix already writes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BACKLOG #90 root-caused: the arrows were never missing from the icon
theme — Papirus-Dark resolves pan-end-symbolic through its breeze-dark
inheritance (breeze ships inside the nixpkgs papirus output). The real
culprit: Waybar loads its stylesheet screen-wide at application
priority, so the tray menus it hosts for SNI apps (nm-applet & co)
inherit the bar's '* { min-height: 0; }', which out-prioritizes
adw-gtk3's 16px min-height on the menuitem arrow node and collapses
the submenu arrow to zero height. Property bisect confirmed
min-height:0 alone reproduces; the font/border resets don't.
- boreal + executive-slate waybar.css, waybar.nix generatedStyle:
'*' block scoped to 'window#waybar, window#waybar *'; tooltip rules
restate the font (tooltips are separate toplevels outside the scope).
- stylix.nix: drop the go-next-symbolic remap — a workaround for the
misdiagnosis; native pan-end-symbolic resolves fine.
- BACKLOG #90 deleted; JOURNAL entry records the method (live GTK3
repro + grim screenshots + CSS property bisect, V3 on TuringMachine).
V3 pending: human click on the real nm-applet tray icon post-switch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With a charge cap, AC-plugged inside the hysteresis band (power.nix:
start = cap − 10) reports 'Not charging' — indistinguishable from a
broken charger without a hint. tooltip-format-plugged now says the cap
is holding the level and how charging resumes. No cap value baked: the
menu changes it live without a rebuild.
Whole-swap parity: the same tooltip added to all four theme
waybar.jsonc files (boreal/executive-slate/summer-day/summer-night) —
the generated config is bypassed under these themes.
Verified on hardware (TuringMachine, boreal theme, cap 80, battery 71%
in the hold band): all four jsonc validate with jq; home-manager switch
deploys the boreal config with the tooltip; battery currently in the
exact Plugged state the tooltip targets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New 2560×1440 cyan/purple geometric void wallpaper without the mid-screen
GLASSMORPHISM panel; preview regenerated to match.
Verified: V0 — theme-wholeswap; center pixels near-black (no grey box).
Two bare `{:%…}` specs emptied the hover tooltip (box with no text).
One strftime block with an embedded newline shows date + zone; ensure
tooltip label colors on generated + summer bars.
Align summer-day/night waybar tokens with JSON roles (hierarchy split
on night; day overlay≠muted), unify bar font 13px + battery 25/10, add
VPN pill and status states (.on/.available/.recording/…). Recapture
executive-slate and neon-glass picker previews from theme-shot.
Verified: V0 contrast+wholeswap; V2 theme-shot four slugs.
#54: permanent checks.installer-safety; test-install-safety harness with
offline compose-fail, LUKS-signature disk warn, and HM-hint FORCE paths.
#33: enable themed rofi scrollbars (generated + all whole-swap .rasi).
#43: MOTD + first-boot tip for System › Firmware (V3 LVFS stays hw-queue).
V2: compose-fail/disk-warn/hm-hint logs green offline; theme-shot
boreal+summer-night menus OK. V0 flake/installer-safety.
Doctor tripwire was self-hiding under waybar (PATH miss / weak glyph).
Call nomarchy-doctor by store path, strip ANSI tooltips, use + format
+ signal 10 (generated and whole-swap). theme-shot asserts class:bad,
guest btop.theme, and pokes RTMIN+10 before desktop shots.
V2: theme-shot green for rose-pine, summer-night, catppuccin, everforest,
vantablack; bar crops show the red alert-circle. btop TUI visual is
softGL-blocked (Ghostty) → HARDWARE-QUEUE. Closes#51 and #52.
Capture executive-slate + neon-glass preview.png (480x270, theme-shot) —
all 24 themes now have picker previews. Quarantine neon-glass's broken
whole-swap: its waybar.css referenced @accent/@base/… with no
@define-color block, and waybar.nix reads a whole-swap css raw (no palette
prepend), so applying it rendered broken bar colours. Removing it falls
back to the generated bar from the theme's JSON palette.
Verified: V2 theme-shot renders viewed — executive-slate clean; neon-glass
bar now renders correctly, no config-error banner. V0 flake check green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doctor Waybar indicator now emits a non-empty glyph () + class:bad when
unhealthy (was "text":"" → self-hidden, so the tripwire never showed);
Control Center appearance toggles (blur/gaps) print "(requires rebuild)"
matching the other CC toggles; summer-day workspace scroll e±1 → r±1 to
match every other bar.
Worktree agent; diff reviewed + cherry-picked. V0 flake check + V1
(HM generation, nomarchy-control-center build). V2 render folded into #44.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Close the honesty gap on #45. Rendered the full Boreal desktop
headlessly (tools/theme-shot.nix, softGL 1920x1080) and confirmed the
session reads as Boreal — aurora wallpaper, Waybar violet accent
(#B79BE8) workspace pill, GeistMono clock, rofi launcher violet
prompt/selection — not Tokyo Night. Added themes/boreal/preview.png
(480x270, matches the existing 21) so the picker row is no longer
plain-name.
theme-shot: park the cursor bottom-right before the desktop shot so the
frame (which doubles as the preview source) is clean; reusable for the
other two missing previews.
Verified: V0 flake check; V2 theme-shot desktop/menu shots viewed;
contrast 24x7 pass. Preview is a headless bare-desktop capture (not the
floating-terminal composition of the others) — hardware recapture noted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Item 28 color-only accessibility sweep. Swept every Waybar status
indicator for shape/glyph redundancy: all already carry non-color
distinction (updates shows a count + self-hides; vpn/doctor/nightlight/
recording self-gate; battery/idle/muted are glyph-distinct) except the
swaync notification module — its `inhibited-*` states reused the normal
bells (/), so an app-inhibited (suppressed) state was distinguished
from a normal one by color alone.
Route every suppressed state (DND + inhibited) to the bell-off glyph
+ @muted, so "notifications are off right now" reads by SHAPE. Applied
to the generated bar and all four whole-swaps (summer-day/night use
their own bell-off glyph; executive-slate/boreal use ) — parity rule.
Reuses the glyph DND already ships, so no new codepoint / tofu risk.
Verified: V0 (flake check --no-build; 4 jsoncs valid JSON) + V1 (built
homeConfigurations.nomarchy.activationPackage — the built config has
inhibited-* = U+F009B and style.css routes .inhibited-* → @muted).
V3 pending: live inhibited-state render with an app holding an inhibitor
(HARDWARE-QUEUE). MEMORY gains the "status is never color-only" invariant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Item 42, de-scoped by Bernardo to app-only — no account sync (the user
configures that themselves locally). Clicking the Waybar date/clock now
runs nomarchy-calendar → calcurse in a floating, centered ghostty window
tagged --class=com.nomarchy.calendar (+ --gtk-single-instance=false for a
fresh standalone window), matched by a float+size+center windowrule. The
launcher self-gates on calcurse. Dropped the clock's format-alt date
toggle (conflicts with on-click) and moved the long date into the tooltip.
Parity: on-click added to all four whole-swap jsoncs.
Ships calcurse + pwvucontrol uncommented in the downstream template
(opt-out). Enforces ghostty always installed (ghostty.nix: enable = true
unconditional; nomarchy.ghostty.enable now gates only the theming/config)
so the --class launcher can rely on it.
Verified: V0 green; four jsoncs valid JSON; V1 HM built — launcher ships,
generated clock renders on-click=nomarchy-calendar (format-alt gone, date
in tooltip), hyprland has the 3 calendar windowrules, ghostty in the HM
profile. Click→float→calcurse month view is V3 (queued). Sync is
deliberately the user's own config, not a distro feature.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Item 36(b). Adds `nomarchy-menu powermgmt` — one flat rofi menu of power
Profile rows (→ powerprofilesctl set) + Charge limit rows (→ the same
theme-sync writer batterylimit uses), each half self-gating on its
hardware. No backend duplication; Custom charge stays in the dedicated
batterylimit picker.
Opened two ways (Bernardo's call): the Waybar battery icon AND the
power-profile icon — the profile icon's click flips from cycle → menu.
Wired in waybar.nix and all four whole-swaps (parity). Named `powermgmt`
to avoid the whole-swaps' existing `custom/powermenu` shutdown button
(→ nomarchy-menu power), which is left untouched. The granular System ▸
Power profile / Battery limit rows stay ("keep both").
nomarchy-powerprofile-cycle kept as a standalone bin, now unbound by
default.
Verified: V0 green; V1 HM built (bash -n) — powermgmt case ships, the
generated waybar-config.json wires both icons (2 hits), all four jsoncs
re-wired and still parse, shutdown buttons intact. Click→menu→apply is
V3 (queued).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Right-clicking the Waybar volume module now opens pwvucontrol (per-app
mixer); left-click still mutes. Adds:
- on-click-right in waybar.nix + all four whole-swap jsoncs (parity)
- hyprland.nix: the config's first windowrule block — float + center the
mixer (pwvucontrol, with pavucontrol as a fallback class); normal-
priority list so a downstream windowrule concatenates
- pwvucontrol in the template home.packages
pwvucontrol is PipeWire-native + GTK4/libadwaita, so it themes via the
portal color-scheme like Amberol. app-id verified from the built package.
This settles the windowrule pattern/placement; item 41 is now just
broadening the float set. Right-click→float→center is a V3 session check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On Hyprland the `top` layer renders above every window, including a real
fullscreen surface — so a browser video gone fullscreen sat *under* the
bar (BACKLOG item 30). Move the bar to `layer: bottom` in the generated
waybar.nix and all four whole-swap jsoncs (parity rule); the exclusive
zone still reserves its space in normal tiling, but a fullscreen window
now covers it. Rationale comment kept in waybar.nix; data jsoncs left
comment-free (they carry none).
Verified: V0 (nix flake check --no-build, green) + V1
(homeConfigurations.nomarchy.activationPackage builds; built
.config/waybar/config shows "layer": "bottom"). V3 queued in
HARDWARE-QUEUE (fullscreen covers bar + returns on exit; floating-overlap
trade-off).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The discharging `format` put a single space between the icon span and
{capacity}%, but the battery-bar glyphs carry almost no right bearing,
so the state read cramped — while charging/plugged use glyphs with their
own spacing and looked fine. Widen only the discharging line to two
spaces across all four themes that ship their own bar (boreal,
summer-night, summer-day, executive-slate).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Pin `font-family: Nomarchy` on #custom-nomarchy (boreal, executive-slate)
so the branded mark at U+F000 wins over the Nerd Font's glass glyph at
the same codepoint (summer bars already pinned it).
- Enlarge the icons on icon+text modules via a Pango span, with a gap so
the glyph no longer crowds the value. The volume module gets a wider
gap: its level glyph is unusually wide and overlapped the % otherwise.
- Bump icon-only status modules (caffeine, speedometer, …) to match, so
they don't read smaller than their neighbours. The generated bar sizes
everything relative to fonts.size (+2/+3pt) so it scales per theme.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Apps launcher (`rofi -show drun -theme launcher`) imported
`custom.rasi` — the name HM gives *generated* themes — but a whole-swap
theme's base is deployed under its source basename (`rofi.rasi`), so the
import resolved against $HOME and rofi errored with "custom.rasi not
found" on every whole-swap theme. Make the default import track the
active base (rofi.rasi for whole-swaps, custom.rasi otherwise) and point
Boreal's own launcher.rasi at rofi.rasi.
Also give Boreal's app grid `flow: horizontal` so Down at a column's foot
pages to the next screen instead of jumping to the next column's top,
mirroring the theme-picker grid.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
summer-night shipped with its custom/notification format-icons all empty
(the same Nerd Font glyph-loss seen in executive-slate/boreal), so its bar
showed a blank notification indicator regardless of state — while its
sibling summer-day kept the icons. Filled them in from summer-day so the
FontAwesome bell (U+F0F3) / bell-slash (U+F1F6) match across the pair.
Surgical edit — only the 8 icon values changed, hand-formatting untouched.
V1: builtins.fromJSON parses; icons now byte-identical to summer-day; zero
empty glyph fields remain across all four whole-swap bars.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The whole-swap waybar.jsonc for both themes shipped with every Nerd Font
private-use glyph dropped to an empty string — the launcher (U+F000), the
power button (U+F011), and all pulseaudio / battery / notification
format-icons — so the bars rendered with those icons blank. The glyphs were
lost when the files were first written; restored here from the known-good
generated bar (waybar.nix) and summer-night, verified by codepoint:
launcher U+F000, power U+F011, notification bells U+F009A-C, full
battery/volume icon sets. (Files re-dumped with ensure_ascii=False, so the
module arrays are now multi-line — content only, no layout change.)
V1: strict JSON + builtins.fromJSON parse both (13 right-modules each);
comprehensive scan reports zero empty glyph fields; flake check green.
Found while sweeping the branch: summer-night/day carry the same empty
notification format-icons (pre-existing, untouched here) — flagged for a
separate fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Boreal — a Nord × Everforest × Dracula dark theme: a boreal forest at
night under the aurora. Nord's frost bones, Everforest's comfort, Dracula's
jewel-tone violet/cyan as the aurora light.
Palette (WCAG-checked, all 24 themes × 7 pairings pass): frost-slate base,
soft-vivid violet accent (#B79BE8, 6.35 on base) + frost-cyan accentAlt
(#86C7C0, 7.84 AAA), sage-green/gold/coral semantics, text 10.66 AAA.
Bespoke, non-standard surfaces:
- Waybar whole-swap (jsonc + css): a floating "aurora frost" bar of three
frosted-glass pills; launcher+clock left, workspaces centre, and the whole
right side is ONE continuous pill — the system tray shares its glass with
the status modules, no separators (the seamless-tray requirement). Full
module set (parity). GeistMono.
- Rofi: a frosted list base (used by every menu), plus a 4×3 large-icon grid
for the app launcher only.
- Typography GeistMono Nerd Font (57 MB, new); Iosevka was rejected at 1.1 GB.
Per-theme appearance (new): a preset now carries a full fonts+ui block, like
border, so a theme can ship a bespoke font / terminal opacity / border
thickness / rounding and a switch always replaces it — no leak into the next
theme (verified: boreal→everforest resets mono/rounding/opacity). All 23 other
presets get the current defaults (idempotent — zero visual change). Boreal
runs GeistMono + 0.90 terminal opacity + 3px borders + 12px rounding.
Grid launcher (new, backward-compatible): drun renders via `-theme launcher`;
HM writes ~/.local/share/rofi/themes/launcher.rasi which defaults to
`@import "custom.rasi"` (every other theme's launcher = its list, unchanged),
and a theme may override it (Boreal's grid). Text menus keep the base list.
Wallpaper: an original procedurally-generated aurora-over-treeline (ImageMagick),
palette-matched.
V1: nix flake check --no-build green; strict JSON on every preset; contrast
checker green; the real rofi binary parses the base rasi and resolves
`-theme launcher` + @import + grid overlay; end-to-end eval with boreal active
resolves the waybar whole-swap (tray in the right cluster), the rofi grid
launcher, and the bespoke fonts/opacity/geometry reaching nomarchy.theme, with
no cross-theme contamination. NOT done: on-screen render of the desktop
(V2/V3) and preview.png (deferred to on-hardware capture).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The executive-slate preset shipped a waybar.css that referenced @base/@accent
with no @define-color block, and no matching waybar.jsonc — so the raw-read
override ran a largely unstyled bar (the item-28 partial-whole-swap defect).
The palette was also flat (base->surface only 1.13x) with a dim accent
(#4D78CC, 3.91 on base).
- Palette: widen surface stepping (base->surface 1.13x -> 1.29x so panels/
selection/hover separate), brighten the accent (#4D78CC -> #5A8AE6, 3.91 ->
5.04 on base, now AA text), lift subtext/good/warn/bad a tier, realign ansi,
soften bright-white (#FFFFFF -> #F0F3F9). text stays 12.5 AAA. Contrast
checker: all 23 themes x 7 pairings pass.
- Waybar: complete the bespoke bar as a real whole-swap. New waybar.jsonc with
the full 17-module set (parity with summer-day/night); waybar.css rewritten
to lead with its own @define-color block and cover every module + state class
the helper scripts emit (.recording/.activated/.on/.available/.dnd-*/battery).
Identity: solid, edge-to-edge, sharp corners, accent underline on the active
workspace.
- Rofi: drop the broken var() idiom for the house *{}/@name convention (split
border syntax, message/textbox/scrollbar elements for the theme-grid picker).
- CONVENTIONS: Waybar parity rule now names executive-slate as a third
whole-swap target (was stale at summer-only).
V1: nix flake check --no-build green; strict JSON parse of both files; real
rofi parsed the .rasi cleanly; with executive-slate set active, the module
eval resolves waybar.settings -> the jsonc, waybar.style -> the css, rofi.theme
-> the override rasi, and theme.nix accepts the palette. NOT yet done: on-screen
render of the bar/rofi/desktop (V2/V3) and preview.png (deferred to on-hardware
capture, per the chosen path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Leveraged Nano Banana to generate a 4k functional minimalist wallpaper. Added the new preset with a solid, high-legibility waybar and flat rofi launcher.
catppuccin, lumon, nord and retro-82 carried 2-14 line waybar.css
stubs from the rewrite import (f211ef0). A theme waybar.css replaces
the entire generated stylesheet, so those four shipped a raw default
Waybar: no workspace pill, cramped flush-edge right cluster, none of
the generated polish. Deleting the stubs falls them back to the
generated bar in their own palette; their full ~110-line rofi.rasi
designs are untouched. Authored whole-swap bars remain only
summer-day/night.
V2: lumon captured before/after — stub bar was default-styled,
re-capture renders the generated styling. flake check green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hovering the clock now leads with the zone — "{:%Z (UTC%z)}" above the
calendar — on the generated bar and both summer whole-swaps (parity).
Under auto-timezone the existing tz-watch SIGUSR2 reload keeps it
showing the currently detected zone. %Z is the abbreviation (BST), not
the IANA name — strftime has no code for that, and it satisfies the
"(optional)" nicety.
Verified: V0; V1 — the rendered generated config carries the new
tooltip-format and both summer jsonc parse with it. Hover render
queued for hardware.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nomarchy-doctor-status: silent while nomarchy-doctor exits 0 (or is
absent), so the module only exists when something is actually broken —
then a red warning glyph with the first ✖ lines jq-escaped into the
tooltip; clicking opens the full sheet (nomarchy-menu doctor).
Interval 300s: the health check is real work (unit/disk/git sweeps),
and this is a tripwire, not a monitor. Added to the generated bar
(status group, after battery) and to BOTH summer whole-swap bars
(module list + jsonc block + CSS membership + @red rule) per the
parity rule.
Verified: V0; V1 — template-home builds with the module in config +
CSS, the status script passes bash -n, both summer jsonc still parse;
functional — the self-gate exits silently, and a shimmed failing
doctor yields jq-valid JSON with class "bad" and the ✖ lines in the
tooltip. Live render queued for hardware.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both summer whole-swap rasi rendered prompt and placeholder in the
same bg0 on the green inputbar, reading as one run-on phrase — the
placeholder is now bg0 at 60% alpha, matching the generated theme's
hierarchy.
Recorded with it: the catppuccin-latte 1080p capture shows the
generated menu fully coherent on light themes (the audit's "dark
terminal on latte" was a stale preview), and a dedicated VM probe
confirms misc:background_color is applied (hyprctl getoption =
0xFFEFF1F5) — the dark backdrop in captures is awww's empty-state
layer over it, a wallpaper-less-VM artifact, not a defect.
Verified: rasi edits grep-verified (visual rides the next summer
capture / hardware); latte capture + probe reviewed. Item 28 is now
gated on the icon-weight [human] call and the queued hardware
eyeballs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
18 hex retunes, hue-preserving OKLCH minimal raises except where the
upstream palette defines a canonical value: muted lifted to >= 2.0 on
lumon/white/retro-82/everforest (solved), gruvbox (bg4 #7c6f64), nord
(#616e88, the community comment-brightening), catppuccin-latte
(overlay1 #8c8fa1); text-on-surface >= 4.5 via surface nudges
(ristretto darker, latte lighter); accentAlt >= 3.0 (latte, summer-day
darkened); warn >= 2.5 — the bar's battery tint — darkened on the
light bases (latte, rose-pine dawn, summer-day) and flexoki-light's
four status colors moved to their canonical light-mode 600 series.
check-theme-contrast.py now gates all four adopted floors (7 pairings
x 21 themes, green). good/bad stay audit-only — identity themes sit at
2.0-2.3 there by design, so no exemption mechanism was needed. The
design audit's contrast findings drop 20 -> 1 (miasma's earthy `bad`,
kept as identity). Item 28 slice (b) complete.
Verified: V0, checks.theme-contrast green, flake check green,
re-audit. Rendering is V3 -> HARDWARE-QUEUE eyeball entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The audit's P1s, fixed at the palette level (items 25/27 previously
patched the consumers around these):
- summer-day: surface was the TEXT color (slate #5c6a72 on cream) and
subtext was the BASE (ratio 1.0, invisible) — now a raised cream
surface #efe7d0 and a slate-teal subtext #6e828a in the theme's
family.
- flexoki-light: surface/overlay/muted were all the text black and
subtext the paper — retuned to canonical upstream Flexoki tones
(ui #E6E4D9, #B7B5AC, tx-2 #6F6E69, base-500 #878580).
- miasma: pure-black surface under a #222 base → raised #2e2e2e.
- kanagawa: surface was sumiInk0 (darker than the bg) → upstream's
raised sumiInk4 #2a2a37.
check-theme-contrast.py gains the adopted rule: subtext on base >= 3.0
(all 21 themes pass), so the invisible-secondary-text class cannot
ship again. Model note in the backlog: `overlay` is a mid-tone role
(catppuccin semantics), not a third bg tier.
Verified: V0 + checks.theme-contrast green (21x3); re-audit shows all
four P1 findings gone; a scratch downstream with summer-day active
builds and the new surface hex lands in the rendered ghostty config.
Remains: V3 four-theme eyeball (HARDWARE-QUEUE) and 28b's P2 floors +
exemption list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Summer-night's whole-swap bar had an idle_inhibitor the generated bar
lacked (reverse parity gap from the 2026-07-04 sweep). The generated
bar now carries it — click → , warm tint while active, tooltips
saying what it holds — blocking hypridle's lock/display-off/suspend
for videos and presentations; state deliberately resets with the bar.
summer-day mirrors summer-night's module + CSS, and the keybinds
cheatsheet mentions the bar click (via keybinds.extra).
V1: rendered config has the module with correct glyphs, CSS rules
present, cheatsheet row renders. Inhibit behaviour needs a session →
V3 queued.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nomarchy-record owns the lifecycle: start prefers wl-screenrec (VAAPI
hardware encode) and falls back to wf-recorder if it dies at startup
(the no-VAAPI case), stop SIGINTs so the file finalizes cleanly, and
status feeds a self-gating Waybar ⏺ REC (alert red) whose click is
the one stop surface — signal 8 pokes make it appear/vanish
instantly. Capture gains Record region/screen (+ audio variants) and
self-swaps to '■ Stop recording' while one runs. Parity: both summer
whole-swap bars carry the same module. Recordings land in
~/Videos/Recordings with the screenshot timestamp naming (deviation
from 'next to Screenshots': an .mp4 in Pictures felt wrong).
V1: rendered bar config + CSS asserted, summer jsonc parse, recorder
dry-run state machine correct (idle/active/usage exits), both
recorders in home-path. Real capture needs a session → V3 queued
(incl. the VAAPI-vs-fallback check on the AMD box).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
