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>
#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.
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>
Reworked the menu look, palette-driven so it lands on every theme:
- Real Papirus icons in place of Nerd Font glyphs: a row() helper emits
rofi's per-row icon protocol, and the five static menus (root, Tools,
System, Power, Capture) map each entry to a freedesktop icon name
(verified present in Papirus). Entry text is now clean ("Apps"), the
case-matching is unchanged.
- Larger icons via a new t.ui.iconSize knob (36px, generated theme); the
summer whole-swaps keep their 40px identity.
- Rounded, roomy rows with subtle zebra striping: alternate rows lift to
@surface (a faint bg0 wash on the summer cream/slate windows), the
selected row to @accent — using rofi's normal/alternate/selected row
parities.
- Content-fit windows: fixed-num-lines=false so a 6-entry menu stops
reserving 8 rows of empty space (the launcher still fills + scrolls).
Dropped the fixed height:50% from the summer .rasi so they size to
content too — which also unhid their clipped Power/Keybindings rows.
- Title-cased the menu prompts.
Verified by building the HM config and rendering the generated theme plus
both summer whole-swaps headlessly (sway + grim): icons resolve, zebra
shows, every menu hugs its rows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
themes/<slug>/rofi.rasi whole-swaps for the two themes that had a
distinct launcher look in the legacy branch — inverted window (bg=fg),
green inputbar, yellow bottom-border accent, rounded. Adapted: dropped
the configuration{} block (rofi.nix owns modi/terminal/show-icons) and
swapped the unshipped Iosevka 17 for a shipped Nerd Font.
Verified: both .rasi parse under `rofi -dump-theme`; the whole-swap
selects per active theme (summer-night → #2d353b/#a7c080, summer-day →
#fdf6e3, others → the generated palette theme); flake check green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
