docs(backlog): re-measure #146 — zero genuine hypridle zombies post-fix

Re-ran the measurement per the entry's own recipe on the dev box (user
journal persistent to 2026-05-01, full window). Post-linger-fix
(2026-07-16 ~18:00 on) every `Disconnected from pollfd id 1` is a clean
teardown bracketed by a logind `Session N logged out` + a systemd
`Stopped hypridle` within <=11s (07-16 20:13, 07-17 17:04, 07-18 13:35,
07-19 16:46). Zero genuine zombies. Live daemon healthy (ss Recv-Q 0,
NRestarts=0, active, ExecMainPID==pid). Caveat: all four were deliberate
logouts, no compositor crash post-fix yet, so the crash path is confirmed
by argument not observation, and 4 days < the "few weeks" bar. Set an
explicit close condition (~2026-08-10 if still 0). Not closing today.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitea/workflows/bump.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 # Nomarchy scheduled lock bump — the automated half of "rock-stable
-# without rotting": once a week, update flake.lock (inputs track pinned
+# without rotting": once a day, update flake.lock (inputs track pinned
 # release branches, so this never jumps a NixOS release — that's a
 # deliberate hand-edited v2, see agent/GOALS.md), gate it, and land it
 # on main only on green. `v1` promotion stays human, always.
 #
 # Fast lane: workflow_dispatch. For a security fix upstream, run this
-# workflow manually from the Actions tab instead of waiting for Monday.
+# workflow manually from the Actions tab instead of waiting for the
+# next daily run.
 #
 # Gate scope: `nix flake check --no-build` (eval tier) followed by a V1 build
 # (home-manager activation package + nixos toplevel) to catch compilation errors.
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@
 #
 # Failure mode: a red gate fails this run visibly and pushes nothing;
 # next schedule retries. A push race (someone landed on main mid-run)
-# also just fails the final push — rerun or wait a week.
+# also just fails the final push — rerun or wait a day.
 #
 # Container recipe (nixbld users, sandbox=false, pinned Nix, plain-shell
 # install) inherited from check.yml — the gotchas are documented there.
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ name: Lock bump
 
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: '17 5 * * 1'   # Mondays 05:17 UTC
+    - cron: '17 5 * * *'   # daily 05:17 UTC
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:

agent/BACKLOG.md

@@ -33,24 +33,6 @@ flake pin are different root causes even when they show up on the same machine.
 
 ## NEXT
 
-### 152. Generated waybar polish: bar height vs workspace highlighter, right-edge icon spacing
-
-Bernardo, 2026-07-17. Two visual fixes to the **generated** bar (the one
-every theme without a `waybar.jsonc`/`waybar.css` whole-swap gets — the
-4 whole-swap themes are out of scope unless the parity rule drags them in):
-- **Bar height:** make the bar a bit taller so the selected-workspace
-  highlighter no longer renders taller than the bar itself (today it
-  visually overflows/clips the bar edge).
-- **Right-module spacing:** the icon distances on the right cluster look
-  uneven — e.g. the power button sits too close to the screen edge; give
-  the cluster consistent inter-icon spacing and sane end padding.
-
-This is §3 visual-protocol work (agent/THEME-DESIGN.md + VERIFICATION §3):
-before/after screenshots, two themes (one generated palette + one
-whole-swap for the no-regression side), scripted checks first, actually
-view the captures. Waybar CSS ↔ tray-menu gotchas in agent/MEMORY.md
-apply (never scope `*`).
-
 ### 151. `[human]` v1 launch plan — devise with Bernardo (includes the GitHub move)
 
 Bernardo, 2026-07-17: before tagging v1, sit down and devise the launch plan.
@@ -146,6 +128,26 @@ v1+ polish, not a v1 blocker.
 
 ### 146. `[watch]` hypridle hangs instead of exiting when its compositor vanishes
 
+**Re-measured 2026-07-20 (dev box; user journal is persistent back to 2026-05-01,
+so this is the full window, not a fragment).** The linger fix landed between 17:25
+and 20:13 on 2026-07-16: the last zombie-shaped disconnect is the known one
+(17:25:39, PID 1698 — logout→greeter with **no** following `Stopped hypridle`), and
+**every** `Disconnected from pollfd id 1` since is a clean teardown bracketed by both
+a logind `Session N logged out` and a systemd `Stopped hypridle` within ≤11s
+(07-16 20:13:04, 07-17 17:04:38, 07-18 13:35:25, 07-19 16:46:49). **Genuine zombies
+post-fix: 0.** The live daemon is healthy too — PID 1707: `active`, `NRestarts=0`,
+`ExecMainPID`==pid, `ss` Recv-Q 0 on its D-Bus socket (reading, not the 48 KB-unread
+wedge), `WCHAN futex_do_wait`, logged activity <10 min before inspection. **Why this
+stays open a little longer, not closed today:** all four post-fix disconnects were
+*deliberate* logouts — no Hyprland *crash* (the zombie's actual trigger; the nearby
+coredumps were xdg-desktop-portal/swww/swayosd during teardown, not the compositor)
+has occurred since the fix, so the crash path is confirmed by argument (a crash ends
+the logind session too → no-linger manager teardown reaps hypridle) but not yet by an
+observed crash, and ~4 days is under the "few weeks" bar. **Close condition:** if
+genuine zombies stay 0 by ~2026-08-10 (≈3 weeks post-fix), close unbuilt; one wedged
+process (`ps` alive + `ss` Recv-Q high + `NRestarts=0` while `active`) reopens it as
+real work. Everything below is prior context, unchanged.
+
 **Rewritten 2026-07-16, hours after filing: the premise was disproven and almost
 nothing survives.** As filed it said hypridle "dies silently ~2×/week — 19 times
 in 11 days", with Jul 14 as the clean example ("`CRITICAL` at 13:08:17, then
@@ -193,25 +195,6 @@ If that count is zero over a few weeks post-linger, **close this unbuilt**. If i
 is not, the upstream issue has sat ten months on vaxerski's "that will cause a
 segfault no?" and a reproducer would be worth more than a local guard.
 
-### 150. Extract the display-transition tool — idle.nix carries a lossy copy under the same name
-
-Found by the 2026-07-17 structural audit. `modules/home/idle.nix:23-53` defines
-`miniTransition`, a ~22-line `writeShellScriptBin` named
-**`nomarchy-display-transition`** — the same binary name as the real ~175-line
-tool in `modules/home/hyprland.nix:136-310` — implementing only
-`undock|enable`, with none of the full tool's safety: no logging, no
-lid-inhibitor gate, no `restore_keyboards`, no workspace moves, no
-failure dump. The comment says why: "a mini transition avoids a circular
-import on hyprland.nix". No PATH collision today (the mini is never installed;
-it is baked by store path into hypridle's wake tool via `display-tools.nix`),
-but nothing asserts the two stay behaviourally consistent, and this is the
-subsystem where #100/#142/#148 all lived. Pitch: extract the full tool into
-its own module file (e.g. `modules/home/display-transition.nix`) imported by
-both hyprland.nix and idle.nix, delete the mini, re-run the
-`tools/monitor-fallback.nix` harness + `checks.docking-ux` as the V2 gate.
-Cost: a focused refactor of safety-critical code — deliberately NOT done as
-hygiene drive-by; deserves its own iteration.
-
 ### 149. `[watch]` Waybar's exec-once workaround may be defending against nothing post-linger
 
 Spun out of #147 (shipped 2026-07-17) so its loose thread survives the entry:
@@ -223,6 +206,18 @@ defending against nothing. Do not rip it out on this note alone: it works, and
 the claim needs a real relogin without linger to test (V3 — the same relogin
 that verifies #148's watcher fix would answer it).
 
+**2026-07-18 evidence: the warm relogin is real post-linger.** On the dev
+box the user manager survived a Hyprland logout (the tty1 greetd session
+keeps it alive — no linger involved) and the teardown broke:
+`graphical-session.target`'s stop transaction was rejected as destructive
+(easyeffects had a queued start job), the target stayed active,
+cliphist/swaync/portals/swayosd crash-looped against the dead Wayland
+socket into `start-limit-hit`, and the relogin's plain `start` was a no-op
+— doctor red for the whole session. Session bring-up now stops stale
+targets + `reset-failed` before starting (`hyprland.nix`
+systemd.extraCommands); relogin V3 check queued in HARDWARE-QUEUE. The
+exec-once posture this entry watches is therefore still earning its keep.
+
 ### 120. A netinstall ISO, next to the fat offline one
 
 **Deferred to PROPOSED 2026-07-16 (Bernardo): not now.** Nothing below is

agent/HARDWARE-QUEUE.md

@@ -42,13 +42,28 @@ Everything else below stays open; order is convenience, not a gate.
       four (the `*`-reset counter-rules). If a VM-rendered preview looks
       off in the theme-picker grid next to the hardware-captured ones,
       recapture that preview on hardware into themes/<slug>/preview.png.
+- [ ] **Light-theme contrast refits (2026-07-18 report)** — under any
+      light theme: (1) with two workspaces open, the inactive number is
+      readable on the bar (subtext, not the washed-out grey); (2) hover a
+      notification popup — background stays the theme's light card with a
+      faint tint, text readable (the swaync default's dark
+      .notification-default-action hover is now overridden); close
+      button matches the palette. VM-verified with a hover probe under
+      summer-day; this is the on-hardware confirmation of the report.
 - [ ] **Auto-theme pair flip on hardware** — set
       `settings.autoTheme.{day,night}` to one of the new pairs (e.g.
-      kiln-clay / kiln), force sunrise/sunset around the current time,
-      let the timer flip once each way. Pass = the whole desktop switches
-      in one generation, and nothing leaks from the previous theme —
-      fonts, rounding, terminal opacity all reset (the per-theme
-      appearance block), wallpaper follows.
+      kiln-clay / kiln), set sunset (or sunrise) a few minutes ahead via
+      Look & Feel › Auto theme (the time edit itself rebuilds — since the
+      exact-time revision the timer fires AT the configured minute, no
+      15-min poll), let the timer flip once each way. Pass = (1)
+      `systemctl --user list-timers nomarchy-auto-theme` shows the two
+      configured times as the trigger; (2) the switch lands within ~a
+      minute of the configured time; (3) the whole desktop switches in
+      one generation, and nothing leaks from the previous theme — fonts,
+      rounding, terminal opacity all reset (the per-theme appearance
+      block), wallpaper follows; (4) with autoCommit on, `git -C
+      ~/.nomarchy log` shows an `apply theme` commit and state.json is
+      not left dirty (the 0.5.1 pathspec fix).
 - [ ] **#148 dock-intent enforcement without auto-profiles (dev box, docked)** —
       after pulling the #148 commit: **log out and back in first** — the
       watcher is `exec-once`, so `nomarchy-home` alone leaves the old one
@@ -509,6 +524,31 @@ Everything else below stays open; order is convenience, not a gate.
       `~/.nomarchy/flake.nix` has `?ref=main` (not lagging v1). **Pass:**
       `nomarchy-rebuild` does not die with
       `The option 'nomarchy.hardware' does not exist`.
+- [ ] **Relogin session recovery (2026-07-18 incident)** — after pulling
+      the session-recovery commit and rebuilding: from a full Hyprland
+      session (bar up, a browser open so easyeffects/tray are busy), log
+      out (SUPER+SHIFT+E) and log straight back in at the greeter — do
+      **not** reboot between. **Pass:** `nomarchy-doctor` shows *no failed
+      user units*; `systemctl --user status cliphist swaync
+      xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland swayosd` are all `active (running)`; the
+      bar, notifications, and clipboard history (SUPER+V) work. This is
+      the V3 close for the stale `graphical-session.target` /
+      `start-limit-hit` relogin breakage (BACKLOG #149 note).
+- [ ] **#150 hypridle wake path now uses the FULL undock** — after pulling
+      the #150 commit + `nomarchy-home`: the hyprland-side transition/keyboard
+      tools are byte-identical (proven by store-path equality), so only the
+      hypridle wake behaviour changed. Two checks: **(a) suspend/resume while
+      docked** (lid closed, external on) — suspend, resume; pass = you land
+      back docked on the external with the panel still off and remembered
+      external-keyboard layouts intact (the wake now runs the full undock,
+      which `restore_keyboards` after any reload; the old mini did not). **(b)
+      zero-output rescue** — the #127 case (dock mode, external gone/black,
+      eDP disabled): pass = the internal panel comes back lit, workspaces move
+      to it, and `~/nomarchy-display-dump-*.txt` is written iff it stays dark.
+      Watch for a regression: the full undock clears dock-intent, so confirm a
+      *transient* zero-output blip on resume while genuinely still docked does
+      not leave you undocked with the laptop panel on (the external re-add
+      should re-dock via the watcher — verify it does).
 
 ## AMD dev box only
 - [ ] **#118 smartd still runs where drives DO have SMART** (this commit) — the
@@ -591,6 +631,15 @@ 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

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".

docs/OVERRIDES.md

@@ -70,11 +70,12 @@ State lives in `settings.autoTheme`:
 | `day` / `night` | theme slugs (see `nomarchy-state-sync list`) — the exclusive pairs are made for this: `boreal-dawn`/`boreal`, `executive-ivory`/`executive-slate`, `kiln-clay`/`kiln`, `summer-day`/`summer-night` |
 | `sunrise` / `sunset` | switch times, `"HH:MM"` (24-hour) |
 
-A timer re-checks every ~15 minutes: the day theme applies around sunrise, the
-night theme around sunset — but it only rebuilds when the active theme
-actually needs to change, so most checks do nothing. Enabling rebuilds once
-(to install the timer); disabling is instant. Preview the current decision
-without switching with `nomarchy-state-sync auto --which`.
+A timer fires exactly at the configured sunrise and sunset (plus once shortly
+after login, and it catches up on a transition missed while the machine was
+off or asleep) — it only rebuilds when the active theme actually needs to
+change. The times are baked into the timer, so editing them (or enabling)
+rebuilds once; disabling is instant. Preview the current decision without
+switching with `nomarchy-state-sync auto --which`.
 
 These values are deliberately kept at normal priority in the modules, so they
 stay owned by the theme system. If you *insist* on pinning one in `home.nix`

docs/ROADMAP.md

@@ -316,11 +316,17 @@ Design/decision records and a running log of shipped work (items marked
   drives `nomarchy-state-sync auto`, which picks day vs night by the local
   clock and applies the preset **only if it differs** (idempotent).
   `modules/home/autotheme.nix` installs a user timer
-  (`OnStartupSec` + `OnCalendar=*:0/15` + `Persistent`, gated on the state
+  (`OnStartupSec` + `OnCalendar` + `Persistent`, gated on the state
   flag) that ticks `auto`; Look & Feel › Auto theme toggles it and picks the
   pair/times. `cmd_apply`'s core was factored into `apply_named` so `auto`
-  reuses it verbatim. Periodic (not exact sunrise/sunset timers) for
-  robustness to suspend/DST; the idempotent `auto` keeps ticks cheap. Enable
+  reuses it verbatim. Originally a 15-min poll (`OnCalendar=*:0/15`) for
+  robustness to suspend/DST; **revised** (Bernardo 2026-07-18) to fire
+  exactly at the configured sunrise/sunset — `Persistent` covers powered-off
+  gaps, systemd fires elapsed calendar timers on resume, and `OnStartupSec`
+  settles login, so the poll bought nothing but a ≤15-min switch lag. The
+  times are now baked into `OnCalendar`, so the menu's Sunrise/Sunset edits
+  rebuild via `auto --force` (day/night slugs stay live reads; editing the
+  on-screen slot applies immediately since no poll catches it up). Enable
   rebuilds once (installs the timer + `auto --force`); disable is instant
   (the flag flips and `auto` self-gates). **V2:** `checks.auto-theme` moves
   the VM clock across a configured sunset/sunrise and asserts the theme flips
@@ -521,6 +527,39 @@ Design/decision records and a running log of shipped work (items marked
   V1: template HM activation built with `unstable.hello`, closure carries
   the unstable store path; `checks.unstable-seam` (eval-only) guards the
   seam permanently; lock diff added exactly the one node.
+- ✓ **Display-transition tool de-duplicated (#150, 2026-07-20):** the full
+  `nomarchy-display-transition` (dock/undock/enable — logging, the lid-inhibitor
+  gate, `restore_keyboards`, the failure dump) moved out of `hyprland.nix` into
+  its own leaf `modules/home/display-transition.nix`, and the keyboard helper it
+  calls into `modules/home/keyboard-tool.nix`; `hyprland.nix` and `idle.nix` now
+  import the ONE copy. This kills the lossy ~22-line mini `idle.nix` carried
+  under the same binary name to dodge a circular import — so the hypridle wake
+  path (`after_sleep` / DPMS `on-resume`) gets the real undock, i.e.
+  `restore_keyboards` after a reload and the evidence dump on enable-failure,
+  not a bare keyword+reload. Behaviour on the hyprland side is unchanged —
+  **proven** by byte-identical store paths for the built
+  `nomarchy-display-transition` / `nomarchy-keyboard-layout` on HEAD vs the
+  refactor. Gates: parse + home/toplevel builds + `checks.docking-ux`
+  (structural, `bash -n` + safety-feature greps) all green. The
+  `tools/monitor-fallback.nix` dock VM harness was **red on `main` at the
+  time** — a flaky 15s bound on the #148 re-dock (identical failure on clean
+  HEAD), diagnosed and fixed the same day (see below), so it did not gate this
+  landing; the dock transition inside it always ran `result=ok`. The idle
+  wake-path behaviour change (full undock, incl. dock-intent clearing +
+  `restore_keyboards`) is V3 — HARDWARE-QUEUE.
+- ✓ **Dock harness de-flaked (#154, 2026-07-20):** `tools/monitor-fallback.nix`
+  flaked at the #148 reload-mid-dock assertion — after a lid-closed
+  `hyprctl reload` re-lights the disabled `Virtual-1` panel, the watcher's
+  `enforce_dock_intent` re-disables it, but only on the loop's 1s **idle
+  tick** (a reload re-enables an existing connector, emitting no
+  `monitoradded`, and chatty IPC events `continue` past `reconcile`). Under
+  the softGL VM's load — swaync crash-loops against the absent Vulkan device —
+  that idle tick is starved and the (correct, prompt-on-hardware) re-dock
+  lands ~15-20s out, right on the old `timeout=15`. Instrumented run proved
+  the mechanism fires with `dock-intent=true` and re-disables the panel; fix
+  is the bound (15→45s, matching the test's other 20-30s waits), not the
+  watcher. Harness now green end-to-end (61s). Not a product bug and unrelated
+  to #150 (byte-identical tool store paths).
 - ✓ **The idle brick's CAUSE found (#127 closed, 2026-07-17):** the incident
   was misdated — it did not happen "before 12:51:34 Jul 15" (that boot was
   healthy all day and ended in a routine clean reboot); it ended the
@@ -1834,8 +1873,9 @@ Design/decision records and a running log of shipped work (items marked
   builds `system.build.toplevel`, and on green lands on `main` — which nobody
   tracks, so a bad bump costs a debug session, not a user outage; `v1` stays
   the manual on-hardware gate (it only ever fast-forwards, never force-pushed,
-  or a user's locked rev can vanish from history). **Cadence weekly**
-  (release-26.05 doesn't move fast; nightly is just churn), and `nix flake
+  or a user's locked rev can vanish from history). **Cadence daily**
+  (2026-07-20; was weekly — release-26.05 doesn't move fast, but daily
+  shrinks security-patch latency and a no-op bump is cheap), and `nix flake
   update` stays *within* the pinned release branches — no surprise major bump
   (a 26.11 jump is a deliberate `v2`, hand-edited in flake.nix). Side benefit:
   shrinks the security-patch latency the single-input model otherwise imposes
@@ -1843,8 +1883,9 @@ Design/decision records and a running log of shipped work (items marked
   already eval/build/VM-tested and one hardware promotion away from `v1` —
   worth fast-laning lock-only/security bumps ahead of feature batches.
   **Shipped since:** `.gitea/workflows/check.yml` (eval tier on every main
-  push) and `bump.yml` (Monday 05:17 UTC scheduled lock bump, eval + V1
-  build gate, auto-lands on green — first landing 8fded63, 2026-07-06).
+  push) and `bump.yml` (daily 05:17 UTC scheduled lock bump, eval + V1
+  build gate, auto-lands on green — first landing 8fded63, 2026-07-06;
+  cadence weekly→daily 2026-07-20).
   2026-07-12: both gates moved from one big `nix flake check --no-build`
   (~6.0 GB peak RSS — OOM'd the 4 GB VPS, then could never fit the
   runner's 2 GB container cap) to `tools/ci-eval.sh`, one output per nix
@@ -1941,6 +1982,12 @@ 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.

flake.lock

@@ -145,11 +145,11 @@
         ]
       },
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1783740085,
-        "narHash": "sha256-qajyHfZY29G2oEQk+uHxmsJcRoBUBXP9maTpFlwP/dI=",
+        "lastModified": 1784350909,
+        "narHash": "sha256-ZWyzLbS1yKUTeFJLmdVuWNnHttL333/ldJbEE+KzCrM=",
         "owner": "nix-community",
         "repo": "home-manager",
-        "rev": "3cd22efe6471dc7365c822bd9ad73a21e55f38fb",
+        "rev": "4ce190229c73d44536caa7072f6308fb2d8feeb3",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
@@ -166,11 +166,11 @@
         ]
       },
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1783792734,
-        "narHash": "sha256-50rvY9GdFvpYDcMLcD/4cWSi0hVxArT5wsGlVsHy8eY=",
+        "lastModified": 1784310968,
+        "narHash": "sha256-rkSPTePrKqs4dg+i7ZFCq93+HrClac6oSwXX927SVjA=",
         "owner": "NixOS",
         "repo": "nixos-hardware",
-        "rev": "8efb4337e857949f4cfac86d12ef1066f417f31f",
+        "rev": "779c32a00155994c86cde8213a8dd4df139d4355",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
@@ -182,11 +182,11 @@
     },
     "nixpkgs": {
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1783703440,
-        "narHash": "sha256-O3/YajjWo001VUIgD8BwaRdSNLUFe7nZ1qV5TwhRBcw=",
+        "lastModified": 1784432872,
+        "narHash": "sha256-n3gKTBIV4ZA5VQpUakffBe3KGu4+mhPoA34rrqS0GkA=",
         "owner": "NixOS",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "8f0500b9660505dc3cb647775fe9a978a74b5283",
+        "rev": "fd1462031fdee08f65fd0b4c6b64e22239a77870",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
@@ -198,11 +198,11 @@
     },
     "nixpkgs-unstable": {
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1784120854,
-        "narHash": "sha256-KesHgItiZPgGX740axSiQLcIQ8D24MDqNpkKYWIek8k=",
+        "lastModified": 1784497964,
+        "narHash": "sha256-vlHUuqAcbcH2RKmHbPiuQzbv1pnzzavXnI62RD0bqCU=",
         "owner": "NixOS",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "753cc8a3a87467296ddd1fa93f0cc3e81120ee46",
+        "rev": "241313f4e8e508cb9b13278c2b0fa25b9ca27163",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
@@ -215,11 +215,11 @@
     "nomarchy-wallpapers": {
       "flake": false,
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1784374559,
-        "narHash": "sha256-c05z+PUFbX3gZ7CQfFHtVCWI5WlNCAcFQBC/bBv7G+Y=",
+        "lastModified": 1784478251,
+        "narHash": "sha256-sEBx2ce6g0398FlclNwfv5FuwZ1WzLYNHK6jX/2kV88=",
         "ref": "main",
-        "rev": "a716cf60a05f187ad1d8baa043dda4e6085c2463",
-        "revCount": 3,
+        "rev": "5c361e17b524b6ef27fb7ba948269d0e0c6e954e",
+        "revCount": 5,
         "type": "git",
         "url": "https://git.bemagri.xyz/bernardo/Nomarchy-Wallpapers.git"
       },
@@ -284,11 +284,11 @@
         "tinted-zed": "tinted-zed"
       },
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1783359251,
-        "narHash": "sha256-HUiCnEVlJ4n+qJlZojiz/zv+P0cqM5zsg1dxpz2J7Mg=",
+        "lastModified": 1784060273,
+        "narHash": "sha256-14rIy2kTs5CufmDpgJrwkR+7IzuCAXyLYDAx6ixfRFc=",
         "owner": "nix-community",
         "repo": "stylix",
-        "rev": "e602ad042f00409f33c8ad2829cd8d59ba345c7e",
+        "rev": "2245fa9e16034149b6501834b99863a486e94725",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {

flake.nix

@@ -342,6 +342,48 @@
               pkgs.runCommand "nomarchy-state-bridges" { }
                 "touch $out"; # all ${toString (builtins.length cases)} assertions held at eval
 
+          # The baked auto-theme timer (#79 revision): sunrise/sunset land in
+          # the unit's OnCalendar at rebuild, and nothing in a build fails
+          # when that bake goes stale or produces a calendar systemd rejects
+          # — so assert it at eval, state-bridges style.
+          auto-theme-timer =
+            let
+              homeWith = stateFile:
+                (downstream.homeConfigurations.me.extendModules {
+                  modules = [{
+                    nomarchy.stateFile = nixpkgs.lib.mkForce stateFile;
+                  }];
+                }).config;
+              atState = name: at: stateFileOf name { settings.autoTheme = at; };
+              on = homeWith (atState "state-autotheme-on.json" {
+                enable = true; day = "summer-day"; night = "summer-night";
+                sunrise = "06:30"; sunset = "21:45";
+              });
+              garbage = homeWith (atState "state-autotheme-garbage.json" {
+                enable = true; day = "summer-day"; night = "summer-night";
+                sunrise = "sometime"; sunset = "25:99";
+              });
+              off = homeWith absentState; # template carries no autoTheme key
+              cal = c: c.systemd.user.timers.nomarchy-auto-theme.Timer.OnCalendar;
+              cases = [
+                { n = "configured times are baked into OnCalendar";
+                  ok = cal on == [ "*-*-* 06:30:00" "*-*-* 21:45:00" ]; }
+                { n = "garbage times fall back to 07:00/20:00";
+                  ok = cal garbage == [ "*-*-* 07:00:00" "*-*-* 20:00:00" ]; }
+                { n = "disabled → no timer unit installed";
+                  ok = !(off.systemd.user.timers ? nomarchy-auto-theme); }
+              ];
+              failed = builtins.filter (c: !c.ok) cases;
+            in
+            if failed != [ ] then
+              throw ''
+                Auto-theme timer bake broken — settings.autoTheme no longer
+                reaches the unit as expected:
+                ${nixpkgs.lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n" (c: "  ✗ ${c.n}") failed}''
+            else
+              pkgs.runCommand "nomarchy-auto-theme-timer" { }
+                "touch $out"; # all ${toString (builtins.length cases)} assertions held at eval
+
           # The bridge, end to end on a booted machine: checks.state-bridges
           # proves the option flips at eval, this proves a state key alone
           # reaches a RUNNING service. The node sets no
@@ -2204,10 +2246,14 @@
           # `home-manager switch` is stubbed via NOMARCHY_REBUILD (that
           # generic apply path is exercised by every manual theme change);
           # this isolates the auto decision + apply + rebuild-trigger.
+          # The state dir is a git repo with autoCommit on, so every set/apply
+          # also exercises auto_commit against a repo that has ONLY state.json
+          # — the post-#107 shape whose dead legacy pathspecs once aborted
+          # every commit silently.
           auto-theme = pkgs.testers.runNixOSTest {
             name = "nomarchy-auto-theme";
             nodes.machine = { pkgs, ... }: {
-              environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.nomarchy-state-sync ];
+              environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.nomarchy-state-sync pkgs.git ];
               time.timeZone = "UTC";       # naive HH:MM == the clock we set
             };
             testScript = ''
@@ -2220,6 +2266,14 @@
               machine.succeed(
                   "echo '{\"slug\":\"summer-day\"}' > /root/.nomarchy/state.json"
               )
+              # Git-tracked like a real downstream flake — no legacy
+              # theme-state.json/theme.json anywhere in its history.
+              machine.succeed(
+                  "git -C /root/.nomarchy init -q"
+                  " && git -C /root/.nomarchy add state.json"
+                  " && git -C /root/.nomarchy -c user.name=t -c user.email=t@t"
+                  " commit -qm init"
+              )
               machine.succeed(
                   "printf '#!/bin/sh\\necho switch >> /root/rebuilds\\n' > /root/rebuild"
                   " && chmod +x /root/rebuild"
@@ -2229,14 +2283,24 @@
                      "NOMARCHY_DEFAULT_THEMES=${pkgs.nomarchy-default-themes} "
                      "NOMARCHY_REBUILD=/root/rebuild ")
 
-              # Pair + schedule (setup writes only, no rebuild).
-              for kv in ["settings.autoTheme.enable true",
+              # Pair + schedule (setup writes only, no rebuild). autoCommit
+              # first, so every following write must land as its own commit.
+              for kv in ["settings.autoCommit true",
+                         "settings.autoTheme.enable true",
                          "settings.autoTheme.day summer-day",
                          "settings.autoTheme.night summer-night",
                          "settings.autoTheme.sunrise 07:00",
                          "settings.autoTheme.sunset 20:00"]:
                   machine.succeed(env + "nomarchy-state-sync --quiet set " + kv + " --no-switch")
 
+              # Every `set` above auto-committed (the regression: dead legacy
+              # pathspecs made `git commit` abort, skipping ALL of these).
+              machine.succeed(
+                  "git -C /root/.nomarchy log --format=%s"
+                  " | grep -qF 'set settings.autoTheme.sunset'"
+              )
+              machine.succeed("git -C /root/.nomarchy diff --quiet HEAD -- state.json")
+
               def slug():
                   return machine.succeed(env + "nomarchy-state-sync get slug").strip()
               def rebuilds():
@@ -2253,6 +2317,11 @@
               machine.succeed(env + "nomarchy-state-sync auto")
               assert slug() == "summer-night", f"post-sunset should be night, got {slug()}"
               assert rebuilds() == 1, f"sunset should trigger one rebuild, got {rebuilds()}"
+              # The switch auto-committed too — nothing left dirty behind it.
+              machine.succeed(
+                  "git -C /root/.nomarchy log --format=%s | grep -qF 'apply theme'"
+              )
+              machine.succeed("git -C /root/.nomarchy diff --quiet HEAD -- state.json")
 
               # Another tick still after sunset → idempotent, no extra rebuild.
               machine.succeed("date -s '2026-01-02 20:06:00'")

modules/home/autotheme.nix

@@ -1,18 +1,37 @@
 # Auto time-of-day theme switch (BACKLOG #79, VISION § D). A user timer
-# periodically runs `nomarchy-state-sync auto`, which reads
-# settings.autoTheme = { enable, day, night, sunrise, sunset } from the
-# state file and applies the day or night preset for the current clock —
-# through the SAME one engine as a manual `apply` (no second pipeline).
+# runs `nomarchy-state-sync auto` at the configured sunrise and sunset,
+# which reads settings.autoTheme = { enable, day, night, sunrise, sunset }
+# from the state file and applies the day or night preset for the current
+# clock — through the SAME one engine as a manual `apply` (no second
+# pipeline).
 #
-# The command self-gates (no-op when disabled) and is idempotent (it only
-# rebuilds when the active theme actually needs to change), so the timer
-# can tick freely. Install is gated on the state flag (like nomarchy.updates
-# gates on its enable), so a machine not using the feature carries no timer;
-# enabling it from the menu (slice 3) writes the flag + rebuilds, which is
-# what brings the timer into being.
+# The trigger times are BAKED into OnCalendar at rebuild (originally this
+# was a 15-min poll; exact times won on wasted wakeups — Bernardo
+# 2026-07-18), so a time edit must rebuild: the menu's Sunrise/Sunset
+# writes run `auto --force`, whose apply is that rebuild. Missed
+# transitions are covered without polling: Persistent=true catches ones
+# that pass while powered off, systemd fires elapsed OnCalendar timers on
+# resume from suspend, and OnStartupSec settles the theme just after
+# login. The command self-gates (no-op when disabled) and is idempotent
+# (it only rebuilds when the active theme actually needs to change), so
+# every extra firing is cheap.
+#
+# Install is gated on the state flag (like nomarchy.updates gates on its
+# enable), so a machine not using the feature carries no timer; enabling
+# it from the menu (slice 3) writes the flag + rebuilds, which is what
+# brings the timer into being.
 { config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
 
-lib.mkIf (config.nomarchy.settings.autoTheme.enable or false) {
+let
+  at = config.nomarchy.settings.autoTheme or { };
+  # "HH:MM" or the fallback — mirrors _hhmm_to_min in nomarchy-state-sync,
+  # so a hand-edited state can't bake an OnCalendar systemd rejects.
+  hhmm = v: fallback:
+    if builtins.isString v
+       && builtins.match "([01][0-9]|2[0-3]):[0-5][0-9]" v != null
+    then v else fallback;
+in
+lib.mkIf (at.enable or false) {
   systemd.user.services.nomarchy-auto-theme = {
     Unit.Description = "Apply the day/night theme for the current time";
     Service = {
@@ -25,10 +44,13 @@ lib.mkIf (config.nomarchy.settings.autoTheme.enable or false) {
   };
 
   systemd.user.timers.nomarchy-auto-theme = {
-    Unit.Description = "Periodic day/night theme check";
+    Unit.Description = "Day/night theme switch at sunrise and sunset";
     Timer = {
       OnStartupSec = "1min";   # settle on the right theme shortly after login
-      OnCalendar = "*:0/15";   # re-check every 15 min; auto no-ops if unchanged
+      OnCalendar = [
+        "*-*-* ${hhmm (at.sunrise or null) "07:00"}:00"  # sunrise → day
+        "*-*-* ${hhmm (at.sunset  or null) "20:00"}:00"  # sunset  → night
+      ];
       Persistent = true;       # catch a transition missed while powered off
     };
     Install.WantedBy = [ "timers.target" ];

modules/home/display-transition.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+# The full dock / undock / enable display-transition primitive
+# (nomarchy-display-transition) — the one safety-critical copy. Extracted
+# from hyprland.nix (#150) so hyprland.nix and idle.nix share it instead of
+# idle.nix carrying a lossy mini that lacked logging, the lid-inhibitor
+# gate, restore_keyboards, and the failure dump.
+#
+# One transition primitive for the interactive Dock mode, abrupt undock,
+# and named profiles that disable the internal panel.  Dock is one Hyprland
+# batch: enable the target, move every internal workspace, focus it, then
+# disable the panel.  Undock deliberately enables the panel FIRST, waits
+# for it to become an active target, then restores every workspace.
+#
+#   sync            — nomarchy-state-sync exe (dock-intent writes)
+#   keyboardTool    — nomarchy-keyboard-layout (restore after reload)
+#   displayDumpTool — nomarchy-display-dump (evidence on enable failure)
+{ pkgs, sync, keyboardTool, displayDumpTool }:
+pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nomarchy-display-transition" ''
+    set -u
+    LOGGER=${pkgs.util-linux}/bin/logger
+    log() { "$LOGGER" -t nomarchy-display-transition -- "$*"; }
+    valid_output() {
+      case "$1" in *[!A-Za-z0-9_.:-]*|"") return 1 ;; *) return 0 ;; esac
+    }
+    workspaces_on() {
+      hyprctl workspaces -j 2>/dev/null \
+        | jq -r --arg m "$1" '.[] | select(.monitor == $m and .id > 0) | .id'
+    }
+    all_workspaces() {
+      hyprctl workspaces -j 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.[] | select(.id > 0) | .id'
+    }
+    lid_inhibitor_held() {
+      ${pkgs.systemd}/bin/systemd-inhibit --list --json=short 2>/dev/null \
+        | ${pkgs.jq}/bin/jq -e 'any(.[]; .what == "handle-lid-switch" and .why == "Safe dock/undock display transition" and .mode == "block")' \
+            >/dev/null
+    }
+    batch_moves() { # stdin workspace ids, $1 target
+      target="$1"; commands=
+      while IFS= read -r ws; do
+        case "$ws" in *[!0-9]*|"") continue ;; esac
+        commands="$commands dispatch moveworkspacetomonitor $ws $target;"
+      done
+      printf '%s' "$commands"
+    }
+    # `monitors` (enabled-only) listing the output is the ONLY proof it is
+    # really on: every path here issues keywords hyprctl answers "ok" to
+    # without acting.  $1 = output, $2 = polls of 0.2s.
+    output_enabled() {
+      tries=0
+      while [ "$tries" -lt "$2" ]; do
+        hyprctl monitors -j 2>/dev/null \
+          | jq -e --arg m "$1" 'any(.[]; .name == $m)' >/dev/null && return 0
+        tries=$((tries+1)); sleep 0.2
+      done
+      return 1
+    }
+    # `hyprctl reload` re-reads the config, and every runtime keyword dies
+    # with it — including the `device[<name>]:kb_layout` the keyboard watcher
+    # applies to an external board.  Measured on hardware 2026-07-14: a bare
+    # reload took a keyboard remembered as `us` straight back to the session's
+    # `gb`, so without this the undock's escalation would silently break the
+    # layout of any keyboard that stays behind when the dock leaves (a
+    # wireless receiver in the laptop; only boards on the dock's own hub are
+    # unaffected, and only because they leave with it).  The remembered
+    # choices live in the in-flake state, so `restore` is authoritative.
+    restore_keyboards() {
+      hyprctl devices -j 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.keyboards[].name' 2>/dev/null \
+        | while IFS= read -r kb; do
+            [ -n "$kb" ] || continue
+            ${keyboardTool}/bin/nomarchy-keyboard-layout restore "$kb" \
+              >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+          done
+    }
+
+    # Dock mode is an *intent*, and until #142 it lived only in the compositor:
+    # `keyword monitor <internal>, disable` and nothing written down. Any config
+    # reload re-applies the catch-all `monitor=,preferred,auto,1` and re-lights
+    # the panel — which is exactly why `undock` below uses `hyprctl reload` as
+    # its hammer — so every `nomarchy-home` silently performed an undock and the
+    # user re-picked Dock mode by hand.
+    #
+    # So record the intent where every other setting lives (the in-flake state,
+    # menu-writable), and let the watcher re-assert it. `--no-switch`: the
+    # watcher reads this at run time; a rebuild here would be both pointless and
+    # recursive. Failure to write is never fatal — a session that cannot reach
+    # the state file must still dock.
+    set_dock_intent() { # $1 = true|false
+      ${sync} --quiet set settings.display.dockMode "$1" --no-switch \
+        >/dev/null 2>&1 || log "dock-intent=$1 result=state-write-failed"
+    }
+
+    case "''${1:-}" in
+      dock)
+        internal="''${2:-}"; external="''${3:-}"
+        rule="''${4:-$external, preferred, auto, 1}"
+        valid_output "$internal" && valid_output "$external" \
+          || { echo "invalid monitor name" >&2; exit 64; }
+        # Fail closed: disabling the panel without this lock recreates the
+        # exact cable-removal → logind suspend race #100 is fixing.
+        lid_inhibitor_held \
+          || { log "transition=dock internal=$internal external=$external result=no-lid-inhibitor"; exit 1; }
+        moves=$(workspaces_on "$internal" | batch_moves "$external")
+        if hyprctl --batch \
+            "keyword monitor $rule; $moves dispatch focusmonitor $external; keyword monitor $internal, disable" \
+            >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+          set_dock_intent true
+          log "transition=dock internal=$internal external=$external result=ok"
+        else
+          log "transition=dock internal=$internal external=$external result=failed"
+          exit 1
+        fi ;;
+      undock)
+        internal="''${2:-}"
+        valid_output "$internal" || { echo "invalid monitor name" >&2; exit 64; }
+        # Clear the intent *first*: this path runs when the external is already
+        # gone, and if anything below fails the last thing the session needs is
+        # a watcher that keeps trying to dock to a monitor that left.
+        set_dock_intent false
+        # Safety-critical ordering: never remove/move away from an external
+        # before the internal panel is active and can receive workspaces.
+        #
+        # With ZERO enabled outputs — an abrupt undock, the panel already
+        # disabled by the dock — Hyprland 0.55.4 accepts `keyword monitor`
+        # (prints "ok", exits 0) and then never flushes it: the rule is held
+        # until some DRM event arrives, and the panel stays dark.  This is
+        # deterministic, not a race.  Probed on hardware 2026-07-14: the
+        # keyword was inert across 4s and 5s windows in two separate runs,
+        # `dispatch forcerendererreload` did not flush it either, and only
+        # `hyprctl reload` did — in 99ms and 289ms, with the cable out.
+        #
+        # Round 6 read the same symptom as a teardown race and re-issued the
+        # keyword 25 times a poll.  Retrying an inert command cannot work: it
+        # bought 30s of black screen and every `result=ok` in that journal was
+        # really the user plugging the cable back in, whose hotplug flushed
+        # the queued rule and let the next poll take the credit.
+        #
+        # So issue the keyword once — enough whenever another output is still
+        # enabled, e.g. the menu's Dock mode toggle — and escalate to the
+        # reload hammer only when it proves inert.
+        hyprctl keyword monitor "$internal,preferred,auto,1" >/dev/null 2>&1
+        if ! output_enabled "$internal" 5; then
+          log "transition=undock internal=$internal keyword=inert escalate=reload"
+          hyprctl reload >/dev/null 2>&1
+          if ! output_enabled "$internal" 25; then
+            log "transition=undock internal=$internal result=enable-failed"
+            # #127: leave evidence on disk without SSH (TTY or next login).
+            ${displayDumpTool}/bin/nomarchy-display-dump undock-enable-failed \
+              >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          # The config's monitor rules own the panel now.  Re-assert the
+          # runtime rule — which flushes normally, an output being enabled
+          # again — so a config that parks the panel off cannot undo the
+          # undock, and give the keyboards back what the reload took.
+          hyprctl keyword monitor "$internal,preferred,auto,1" >/dev/null 2>&1
+          restore_keyboards
+          log "transition=undock internal=$internal enable=via-reload"
+        fi
+        moves=$(all_workspaces | batch_moves "$internal")
+        hyprctl --batch "$moves dispatch focusmonitor $internal" >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+          || { log "transition=undock internal=$internal result=move-failed"; exit 1; }
+        # #127: undock after idle DPMS left the seat black even when the
+        # panel was re-enabled — always light the chain after enable.
+        hyprctl dispatch dpms on >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+        log "transition=undock internal=$internal result=ok" ;;
+      enable)
+        internal="''${2:-}"
+        valid_output "$internal" || exit 64
+        # Menu ▸ Display ▸ "Screen on". Turning the laptop panel back on *is*
+        # leaving dock mode, and saying so is what stops the watcher from
+        # re-docking the panel out from under the user a second later (#142).
+        # Only the internal clears the intent: lighting some third monitor is
+        # not a statement about the lid.
+        case "$internal" in
+          eDP*|LVDS*|DSI*) set_dock_intent false ;;
+        esac
+        # Reachable only from the menu, i.e. with a screen already on, so the
+        # keyword flushes and no reload escalation is needed — but still make
+        # `monitors` the proof, or the menu's "back on" notification cheers
+        # for a keyword hyprctl merely said "ok" to.
+        hyprctl keyword monitor "$internal,preferred,auto,1" >/dev/null 2>&1
+        if output_enabled "$internal" 10; then
+          hyprctl dispatch dpms on >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+          true
+        else
+          false
+        fi ;;
+      *)
+        echo "usage: nomarchy-display-transition [dock <internal> <external> [external-rule]|undock <internal>|enable <internal>]" >&2
+        exit 64 ;;
+    esac
+  ''

modules/home/hyprland.nix

@@ -128,186 +128,11 @@ let
   displayDumpTool =
     (import ./display-tools.nix { inherit pkgs; }).displayDumpTool;
 
-  # One transition primitive for the interactive Dock mode, abrupt undock,
-  # and named profiles that disable the internal panel.  Dock is one Hyprland
-  # batch: enable the target, move every internal workspace, focus it, then
-  # disable the panel.  Undock deliberately enables the panel FIRST, waits
-  # for it to become an active target, then restores every workspace.
-  displayTransitionTool = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nomarchy-display-transition" ''
-    set -u
-    LOGGER=${pkgs.util-linux}/bin/logger
-    log() { "$LOGGER" -t nomarchy-display-transition -- "$*"; }
-    valid_output() {
-      case "$1" in *[!A-Za-z0-9_.:-]*|"") return 1 ;; *) return 0 ;; esac
-    }
-    workspaces_on() {
-      hyprctl workspaces -j 2>/dev/null \
-        | jq -r --arg m "$1" '.[] | select(.monitor == $m and .id > 0) | .id'
-    }
-    all_workspaces() {
-      hyprctl workspaces -j 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.[] | select(.id > 0) | .id'
-    }
-    lid_inhibitor_held() {
-      ${pkgs.systemd}/bin/systemd-inhibit --list --json=short 2>/dev/null \
-        | ${pkgs.jq}/bin/jq -e 'any(.[]; .what == "handle-lid-switch" and .why == "Safe dock/undock display transition" and .mode == "block")' \
-            >/dev/null
-    }
-    batch_moves() { # stdin workspace ids, $1 target
-      target="$1"; commands=
-      while IFS= read -r ws; do
-        case "$ws" in *[!0-9]*|"") continue ;; esac
-        commands="$commands dispatch moveworkspacetomonitor $ws $target;"
-      done
-      printf '%s' "$commands"
-    }
-    # `monitors` (enabled-only) listing the output is the ONLY proof it is
-    # really on: every path here issues keywords hyprctl answers "ok" to
-    # without acting.  $1 = output, $2 = polls of 0.2s.
-    output_enabled() {
-      tries=0
-      while [ "$tries" -lt "$2" ]; do
-        hyprctl monitors -j 2>/dev/null \
-          | jq -e --arg m "$1" 'any(.[]; .name == $m)' >/dev/null && return 0
-        tries=$((tries+1)); sleep 0.2
-      done
-      return 1
-    }
-    # `hyprctl reload` re-reads the config, and every runtime keyword dies
-    # with it — including the `device[<name>]:kb_layout` the keyboard watcher
-    # applies to an external board.  Measured on hardware 2026-07-14: a bare
-    # reload took a keyboard remembered as `us` straight back to the session's
-    # `gb`, so without this the undock's escalation would silently break the
-    # layout of any keyboard that stays behind when the dock leaves (a
-    # wireless receiver in the laptop; only boards on the dock's own hub are
-    # unaffected, and only because they leave with it).  The remembered
-    # choices live in the in-flake state, so `restore` is authoritative.
-    restore_keyboards() {
-      hyprctl devices -j 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.keyboards[].name' 2>/dev/null \
-        | while IFS= read -r kb; do
-            [ -n "$kb" ] || continue
-            ${keyboardTool}/bin/nomarchy-keyboard-layout restore "$kb" \
-              >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-          done
-    }
-
-    # Dock mode is an *intent*, and until #142 it lived only in the compositor:
-    # `keyword monitor <internal>, disable` and nothing written down. Any config
-    # reload re-applies the catch-all `monitor=,preferred,auto,1` and re-lights
-    # the panel — which is exactly why `undock` below uses `hyprctl reload` as
-    # its hammer — so every `nomarchy-home` silently performed an undock and the
-    # user re-picked Dock mode by hand.
-    #
-    # So record the intent where every other setting lives (the in-flake state,
-    # menu-writable), and let the watcher re-assert it. `--no-switch`: the
-    # watcher reads this at run time; a rebuild here would be both pointless and
-    # recursive. Failure to write is never fatal — a session that cannot reach
-    # the state file must still dock.
-    set_dock_intent() { # $1 = true|false
-      ${sync} --quiet set settings.display.dockMode "$1" --no-switch \
-        >/dev/null 2>&1 || log "dock-intent=$1 result=state-write-failed"
-    }
-
-    case "''${1:-}" in
-      dock)
-        internal="''${2:-}"; external="''${3:-}"
-        rule="''${4:-$external, preferred, auto, 1}"
-        valid_output "$internal" && valid_output "$external" \
-          || { echo "invalid monitor name" >&2; exit 64; }
-        # Fail closed: disabling the panel without this lock recreates the
-        # exact cable-removal → logind suspend race #100 is fixing.
-        lid_inhibitor_held \
-          || { log "transition=dock internal=$internal external=$external result=no-lid-inhibitor"; exit 1; }
-        moves=$(workspaces_on "$internal" | batch_moves "$external")
-        if hyprctl --batch \
-            "keyword monitor $rule; $moves dispatch focusmonitor $external; keyword monitor $internal, disable" \
-            >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-          set_dock_intent true
-          log "transition=dock internal=$internal external=$external result=ok"
-        else
-          log "transition=dock internal=$internal external=$external result=failed"
-          exit 1
-        fi ;;
-      undock)
-        internal="''${2:-}"
-        valid_output "$internal" || { echo "invalid monitor name" >&2; exit 64; }
-        # Clear the intent *first*: this path runs when the external is already
-        # gone, and if anything below fails the last thing the session needs is
-        # a watcher that keeps trying to dock to a monitor that left.
-        set_dock_intent false
-        # Safety-critical ordering: never remove/move away from an external
-        # before the internal panel is active and can receive workspaces.
-        #
-        # With ZERO enabled outputs — an abrupt undock, the panel already
-        # disabled by the dock — Hyprland 0.55.4 accepts `keyword monitor`
-        # (prints "ok", exits 0) and then never flushes it: the rule is held
-        # until some DRM event arrives, and the panel stays dark.  This is
-        # deterministic, not a race.  Probed on hardware 2026-07-14: the
-        # keyword was inert across 4s and 5s windows in two separate runs,
-        # `dispatch forcerendererreload` did not flush it either, and only
-        # `hyprctl reload` did — in 99ms and 289ms, with the cable out.
-        #
-        # Round 6 read the same symptom as a teardown race and re-issued the
-        # keyword 25 times a poll.  Retrying an inert command cannot work: it
-        # bought 30s of black screen and every `result=ok` in that journal was
-        # really the user plugging the cable back in, whose hotplug flushed
-        # the queued rule and let the next poll take the credit.
-        #
-        # So issue the keyword once — enough whenever another output is still
-        # enabled, e.g. the menu's Dock mode toggle — and escalate to the
-        # reload hammer only when it proves inert.
-        hyprctl keyword monitor "$internal,preferred,auto,1" >/dev/null 2>&1
-        if ! output_enabled "$internal" 5; then
-          log "transition=undock internal=$internal keyword=inert escalate=reload"
-          hyprctl reload >/dev/null 2>&1
-          if ! output_enabled "$internal" 25; then
-            log "transition=undock internal=$internal result=enable-failed"
-            # #127: leave evidence on disk without SSH (TTY or next login).
-            ${displayDumpTool}/bin/nomarchy-display-dump undock-enable-failed \
-              >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          # The config's monitor rules own the panel now.  Re-assert the
-          # runtime rule — which flushes normally, an output being enabled
-          # again — so a config that parks the panel off cannot undo the
-          # undock, and give the keyboards back what the reload took.
-          hyprctl keyword monitor "$internal,preferred,auto,1" >/dev/null 2>&1
-          restore_keyboards
-          log "transition=undock internal=$internal enable=via-reload"
-        fi
-        moves=$(all_workspaces | batch_moves "$internal")
-        hyprctl --batch "$moves dispatch focusmonitor $internal" >/dev/null 2>&1 \
-          || { log "transition=undock internal=$internal result=move-failed"; exit 1; }
-        # #127: undock after idle DPMS left the seat black even when the
-        # panel was re-enabled — always light the chain after enable.
-        hyprctl dispatch dpms on >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-        log "transition=undock internal=$internal result=ok" ;;
-      enable)
-        internal="''${2:-}"
-        valid_output "$internal" || exit 64
-        # Menu ▸ Display ▸ "Screen on". Turning the laptop panel back on *is*
-        # leaving dock mode, and saying so is what stops the watcher from
-        # re-docking the panel out from under the user a second later (#142).
-        # Only the internal clears the intent: lighting some third monitor is
-        # not a statement about the lid.
-        case "$internal" in
-          eDP*|LVDS*|DSI*) set_dock_intent false ;;
-        esac
-        # Reachable only from the menu, i.e. with a screen already on, so the
-        # keyword flushes and no reload escalation is needed — but still make
-        # `monitors` the proof, or the menu's "back on" notification cheers
-        # for a keyword hyprctl merely said "ok" to.
-        hyprctl keyword monitor "$internal,preferred,auto,1" >/dev/null 2>&1
-        if output_enabled "$internal" 10; then
-          hyprctl dispatch dpms on >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-          true
-        else
-          false
-        fi ;;
-      *)
-        echo "usage: nomarchy-display-transition [dock <internal> <external> [external-rule]|undock <internal>|enable <internal>]" >&2
-        exit 64 ;;
-    esac
-  '';
+  # The full dock/undock/enable transition primitive lives in its own file
+  # so idle.nix shares this exact safety-critical copy (#150), not a mini.
+  displayTransitionTool = import ./display-transition.nix {
+    inherit pkgs sync keyboardTool displayDumpTool;
+  };
 
   displayWakeTool =
     (import ./display-tools.nix {
@@ -786,78 +611,7 @@ ${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (lib.mapAttrsToList
     done
   '';
 
-  # Candidate layouts offered by the new-keyboard picker: the session
-  # layout(s) (nomarchy.keyboard.layout, comma-split for a multi-layout
-  # session) plus the extra nomarchy.keyboard.layouts pool. The pool is
-  # deliberately NOT merged into input.kb_layout — those candidates are for
-  # *external* keyboards and get applied per-device by the watcher's apply().
-  # Loading them onto the session keyboard is what let a global switch flip
-  # the built-in board to the wrong layout.
-  pickerLayouts = lib.unique (
-    (lib.splitString "," config.nomarchy.keyboard.layout)
-    ++ config.nomarchy.keyboard.layouts
-  );
-
-  # Per-device keyboard helper shared by the hotplug watcher and the manual
-  # System › Keyboard menu.  The configured candidates are listed first, then
-  # every XKB layout known to the system, so the feature works on a default
-  # install instead of silently disappearing until home.nix is edited.
-  keyboardTool = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nomarchy-keyboard-layout" ''
-    set -u
-    sync=${sync}
-
-    layouts() {
-      printf '%s\n' ${lib.concatMapStringsSep " " lib.escapeShellArg pickerLayouts}
-      ${pkgs.gawk}/bin/awk '
-        /^! layout/ { in_layouts=1; next }
-        /^!/ && in_layouts { exit }
-        in_layouts && NF { print $1 }
-      ' ${pkgs.xkeyboard_config}/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
-    }
-    saved_map() { "$sync" get settings.keyboard.devices 2>/dev/null || echo '{}'; }
-    saved_for() { saved_map | jq -r --arg k "$1" '.[$k] // empty'; }
-    apply_runtime() { hyprctl keyword "device[$1]:kb_layout" "$2" >/dev/null 2>&1; }
-
-    case "''${1:-}" in
-      layouts)
-        layouts | ${pkgs.gawk}/bin/awk 'NF && !seen[$0]++' ;;
-      devices)
-        hyprctl devices -j 2>/dev/null \
-          | jq -r '.keyboards[] | "\(.name)\t\(.active_keymap // \"unknown\")"' ;;
-      saved)
-        [ -n "''${2:-}" ] || exit 64
-        saved_for "$2" ;;
-      restore)
-        [ -n "''${2:-}" ] || exit 64
-        layout=$(saved_for "$2")
-        [ -n "$layout" ] && apply_runtime "$2" "$layout" ;;
-      apply)
-        [ -n "''${2:-}" ] && [ -n "''${3:-}" ] || exit 64
-        layouts | ${pkgs.gnugrep}/bin/grep -Fxq "$3" \
-          || { notify-send "Keyboard" "Unknown XKB layout: $3"; exit 64; }
-        if apply_runtime "$2" "$3"; then
-          map=$(saved_map | jq -c --arg k "$2" --arg v "$3" '. + {($k): $v}') || exit 1
-          if "$sync" --quiet set settings.keyboard.devices "$map" --no-switch; then
-            notify-send "Keyboard" "$2 → $3"
-          else
-            notify-send "Keyboard" "$2 → $3 for this session, but the choice could not be saved."
-            exit 1
-          fi
-        else
-          notify-send "Keyboard" "Could not apply $3 to $2."
-          exit 1
-        fi ;;
-      forget)
-        [ -n "''${2:-}" ] || exit 64
-        map=$(saved_map | jq -c --arg k "$2" 'del(.[$k])') || exit 1
-        "$sync" --quiet set settings.keyboard.devices "$map" --no-switch || exit 1
-        apply_runtime "$2" ${lib.escapeShellArg config.nomarchy.keyboard.layout} || true
-        notify-send "Keyboard" "$2 now follows the session layout." ;;
-      *)
-        echo "usage: nomarchy-keyboard-layout [layouts|devices|saved <device>|restore <device>|apply <device> <layout>|forget <device>]" >&2
-        exit 64 ;;
-    esac
-  '';
+  keyboardTool = import ./keyboard-tool.nix { inherit pkgs lib config; };
 
   # On a keyboard that connects after login (not declared in
   # keyboard.devices, not already remembered), ask for a layout and persist it
@@ -970,6 +724,24 @@ in
     # (Hyprland then boots into emergency mode with no binds).
     configType = "hyprlang";
 
+    # Session bring-up (HM renders these into the first exec-once, after
+    # its dbus-update-activation-environment). The default is just
+    # stop/start of hyprland-session.target — not enough after a broken
+    # logout: if the graphical-session.target *stop* transaction was
+    # rejected mid-teardown (seen 2026-07-18: "transaction is destructive"
+    # while easyeffects had a queued start job), the target stays active
+    # across the logout, its services crash-loop against the dead Wayland
+    # socket into start-limit-hit, and the next login's plain `start` is a
+    # no-op — cliphist/swaync/portals stay failed for the whole session
+    # (doctor all red). So: tear the stale targets down, clear
+    # failed/start-limit state, then start fresh. All three are no-ops
+    # after a clean logout or cold boot.
+    systemd.extraCommands = [
+      "systemctl --user stop hyprland-session.target graphical-session.target"
+      "systemctl --user reset-failed"
+      "systemctl --user start hyprland-session.target"
+    ];
+
     settings = {
       "$mod" = "SUPER";
       "$terminal" = config.nomarchy.terminal;
@@ -1042,7 +814,12 @@ in
         };
         shadow = {
           enabled = t.ui.shadow;
-          range = lib.mkDefault 20;
+          # The mantle-tinted shadow reads as a dark halo on dark themes
+          # but as a warm *glow* on light ones (mantle is light there) —
+          # kept as an identity feature, just tight (a few px) so it never
+          # bleeds into neighbouring windows or the bar (hardware report
+          # 2026-07-18); dark themes keep the soft 20px ambient shadow.
+          range = lib.mkDefault (if t.mode == "light" then 5 else 20);
           render_power = lib.mkDefault 3;
           color = rgba c.mantle "aa";
         };

modules/home/idle.nix

@@ -21,35 +21,23 @@ let
   '';
 
   # Absolute store paths for hypridle (thin PATH). Wake reuses the shared
-  # helper; a mini transition avoids a circular import on hyprland.nix.
+  # helper AND the full display-transition tool (#150): idle.nix used to
+  # carry a lossy mini copy to dodge a circular import on hyprland.nix, but
+  # both live in leaf files now, so the wake path gets the real undock —
+  # logging, the enable-failure dump, and restore_keyboards after a reload.
   displayWake =
     let
-      miniTransition = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nomarchy-display-transition" ''
-        set -u
-        case "''${1:-}" in
-          undock|enable)
-            internal="''${2:-}"
-            [ -n "$internal" ] || exit 64
-            hyprctl keyword monitor "$internal,preferred,auto,1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-            if ! hyprctl monitors -j 2>/dev/null \
-                  | ${pkgs.jq}/bin/jq -e --arg m "$internal" 'any(.[]; .name == $m)' \
-                  >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-              hyprctl reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-              sleep 0.5
-            fi
-            hyprctl keyword monitor "$internal,preferred,auto,1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-            hyprctl dispatch dpms on >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-            hyprctl monitors -j 2>/dev/null \
-              | ${pkgs.jq}/bin/jq -e --arg m "$internal" 'any(.[]; .name == $m)' \
-              >/dev/null 2>&1
-            ;;
-          *) exit 64 ;;
-        esac
-      '';
+      keyboardTool = import ./keyboard-tool.nix { inherit pkgs lib config; };
+      displayDumpTool =
+        (import ./display-tools.nix { inherit pkgs; }).displayDumpTool;
+      displayTransition = import ./display-transition.nix {
+        inherit pkgs keyboardTool displayDumpTool;
+        sync = lib.getExe config.nomarchy.package;
+      };
     in
     (import ./display-tools.nix {
       inherit pkgs;
-      displayTransition = miniTransition;
+      inherit displayTransition;
     }).displayWakeTool;
 in
 {

modules/home/keyboard-tool.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+# The per-device keyboard-layout helper (nomarchy-keyboard-layout).
+# Extracted from hyprland.nix (#150) so it is built ONCE and shared: the
+# Hyprland module puts it on PATH and drives it from the hotplug watcher,
+# while the display-transition tool calls it (restore_keyboards) after a
+# config reload. Pass the module's { pkgs, lib, config }.
+{ pkgs, lib, config }:
+let
+  sync = lib.getExe config.nomarchy.package;
+
+  # Candidate layouts offered by the new-keyboard picker: the session
+  # layout(s) (nomarchy.keyboard.layout, comma-split for a multi-layout
+  # session) plus the extra nomarchy.keyboard.layouts pool. The pool is
+  # deliberately NOT merged into input.kb_layout — those candidates are for
+  # *external* keyboards and get applied per-device by the watcher's apply().
+  # Loading them onto the session keyboard is what let a global switch flip
+  # the built-in board to the wrong layout.
+  pickerLayouts = lib.unique (
+    (lib.splitString "," config.nomarchy.keyboard.layout)
+    ++ config.nomarchy.keyboard.layouts
+  );
+in
+# Per-device keyboard helper shared by the hotplug watcher and the manual
+# System › Keyboard menu.  The configured candidates are listed first, then
+# every XKB layout known to the system, so the feature works on a default
+# install instead of silently disappearing until home.nix is edited.
+pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nomarchy-keyboard-layout" ''
+    set -u
+    sync=${sync}
+
+    layouts() {
+      printf '%s\n' ${lib.concatMapStringsSep " " lib.escapeShellArg pickerLayouts}
+      ${pkgs.gawk}/bin/awk '
+        /^! layout/ { in_layouts=1; next }
+        /^!/ && in_layouts { exit }
+        in_layouts && NF { print $1 }
+      ' ${pkgs.xkeyboard_config}/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
+    }
+    saved_map() { "$sync" get settings.keyboard.devices 2>/dev/null || echo '{}'; }
+    saved_for() { saved_map | jq -r --arg k "$1" '.[$k] // empty'; }
+    apply_runtime() { hyprctl keyword "device[$1]:kb_layout" "$2" >/dev/null 2>&1; }
+
+    case "''${1:-}" in
+      layouts)
+        layouts | ${pkgs.gawk}/bin/awk 'NF && !seen[$0]++' ;;
+      devices)
+        hyprctl devices -j 2>/dev/null \
+          | jq -r '.keyboards[] | "\(.name)\t\(.active_keymap // \"unknown\")"' ;;
+      saved)
+        [ -n "''${2:-}" ] || exit 64
+        saved_for "$2" ;;
+      restore)
+        [ -n "''${2:-}" ] || exit 64
+        layout=$(saved_for "$2")
+        [ -n "$layout" ] && apply_runtime "$2" "$layout" ;;
+      apply)
+        [ -n "''${2:-}" ] && [ -n "''${3:-}" ] || exit 64
+        layouts | ${pkgs.gnugrep}/bin/grep -Fxq "$3" \
+          || { notify-send "Keyboard" "Unknown XKB layout: $3"; exit 64; }
+        if apply_runtime "$2" "$3"; then
+          map=$(saved_map | jq -c --arg k "$2" --arg v "$3" '. + {($k): $v}') || exit 1
+          if "$sync" --quiet set settings.keyboard.devices "$map" --no-switch; then
+            notify-send "Keyboard" "$2 → $3"
+          else
+            notify-send "Keyboard" "$2 → $3 for this session, but the choice could not be saved."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+        else
+          notify-send "Keyboard" "Could not apply $3 to $2."
+          exit 1
+        fi ;;
+      forget)
+        [ -n "''${2:-}" ] || exit 64
+        map=$(saved_map | jq -c --arg k "$2" 'del(.[$k])') || exit 1
+        "$sync" --quiet set settings.keyboard.devices "$map" --no-switch || exit 1
+        apply_runtime "$2" ${lib.escapeShellArg config.nomarchy.keyboard.layout} || true
+        notify-send "Keyboard" "$2 now follows the session layout." ;;
+      *)
+        echo "usage: nomarchy-keyboard-layout [layouts|devices|saved <device>|restore <device>|apply <device> <layout>|forget <device>]" >&2
+        exit 64 ;;
+    esac
+  ''

modules/home/recording.nix

@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ lib.mkIf config.nomarchy.rofi.enable {
       filefile="$run/nomarchy-record.file"
 
       alive() { [ -f "$pidfile" ] && kill -0 "$(cat "$pidfile")" 2>/dev/null; }
-      poke_bar() { pkill -RTMIN+8 waybar 2>/dev/null || true; }
+      # -x, both comm names: nixpkgs wraps the binary as `.waybar-wrapped`,
+      # and an unanchored `waybar` also matches (and kills) the
+      # nomarchy-waybar supervisor, whose bash dies on an unhandled RTMIN.
+      poke_bar() { pkill -RTMIN+8 -x 'waybar|\.waybar-wrapped' 2>/dev/null || true; }
 
       case "''${1:-}" in
         start)

modules/home/rofi.nix

@@ -962,13 +962,16 @@ ${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (lib.mapAttrsToList
       autotheme)
         # Look & Feel › Auto theme — automatic day/night theme switch
         # (settings.autoTheme, applied by the nomarchy-auto-theme timer from
-        # autotheme.nix). The enable flag GATES the timer's install, so
-        # turning it *on* must rebuild; day/night/times are read live by
-        # `nomarchy-state-sync auto`, so those writes are instant
-        # (--no-switch). Enabling writes the flag then `auto --force`, so a
-        # single rebuild both installs the timer and applies the right theme
-        # now. Disabling is instant: the flag flips and `auto` self-gates to
-        # a no-op, so the lingering timer does nothing until the next rebuild.
+        # autotheme.nix). The enable flag GATES the timer's install and the
+        # sunrise/sunset times are BAKED into its OnCalendar, so turning it
+        # *on* or editing a time must rebuild — both run `auto --force`, so
+        # one rebuild re-bakes the timer AND lands on the right theme now.
+        # Day/night slugs are read live by `nomarchy-state-sync auto`, so
+        # those writes are instant (--no-switch); when the edited slot is the
+        # one on screen, a plain `auto` applies it right away (the timer only
+        # fires at the next transition — there is no poll to catch it up).
+        # Disabling is instant: the flag flips and `auto` self-gates to a
+        # no-op, so the lingering timer does nothing until the next rebuild.
         at_get() { nomarchy-state-sync get "settings.autoTheme.$1" 2>/dev/null; }
         en=$(at_get enable); day=$(at_get day); night=$(at_get night)
         sunrise=$(at_get sunrise); sunset=$(at_get sunset)
@@ -997,15 +1000,20 @@ ${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (lib.mapAttrsToList
             nomarchy-state-sync --quiet set settings.autoTheme.enable true --no-switch
             notify-send "Auto theme" "On — applying the theme for now…"
             exec nomarchy-state-sync auto --force ;;   # one rebuild: install timer + apply
-          "Day theme"*)
-            slug=$( { nomarchy-state-sync list; printf '%s\n' "$BACK"; } | rofi_menu -p "Day theme") || exec "$0" autotheme
-            [ "$slug" != "$BACK" ] && [ -n "$slug" ] \
-              && nomarchy-state-sync --quiet set settings.autoTheme.day "$slug" --no-switch
-            exec "$0" autotheme ;;
-          "Night theme"*)
-            slug=$( { nomarchy-state-sync list; printf '%s\n' "$BACK"; } | rofi_menu -p "Night theme") || exec "$0" autotheme
-            [ "$slug" != "$BACK" ] && [ -n "$slug" ] \
-              && nomarchy-state-sync --quiet set settings.autoTheme.night "$slug" --no-switch
+          "Day theme"*|"Night theme"*)
+            key=day; label="Day theme"
+            case "$choice" in "Night theme"*) key=night; label="Night theme" ;; esac
+            slug=$( { nomarchy-state-sync list; printf '%s\n' "$BACK"; } | rofi_menu -p "$label") || exec "$0" autotheme
+            if [ "$slug" != "$BACK" ] && [ -n "$slug" ]; then
+              nomarchy-state-sync --quiet set "settings.autoTheme.$key" "$slug" --no-switch
+              # Edited the slot that is on screen right now? Apply it — the
+              # timer won't fire again until the next sunrise/sunset.
+              if [ "$en" = true ] && [ "$(nomarchy-state-sync auto --which)" = "$slug" ] \
+                 && [ "$(nomarchy-state-sync get slug)" != "$slug" ]; then
+                notify-send "Auto theme" "$label: $slug — applying…"
+                exec nomarchy-state-sync auto
+              fi
+            fi
             exec "$0" autotheme ;;
           "Sunrise"*|"Sunset"*)
             key=sunrise; label=Sunrise; cur="''${sunrise:-07:00}"
@@ -1014,7 +1022,14 @@ ${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (lib.mapAttrsToList
             case "$t" in
               ""|"$BACK") : ;;
               [01][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]|2[0-3]:[0-5][0-9])
-                nomarchy-state-sync --quiet set "settings.autoTheme.$key" "$t" --no-switch ;;
+                nomarchy-state-sync --quiet set "settings.autoTheme.$key" "$t" --no-switch
+                # The time is baked into the timer's OnCalendar, so a change
+                # must rebuild; `auto --force` is that rebuild AND lands on
+                # the right theme for the new schedule in the same pass.
+                if [ "$en" = true ]; then
+                  notify-send "Auto theme" "$label $t — rebuilding the schedule…"
+                  exec nomarchy-state-sync auto --force
+                fi ;;
               *) notify-send "Auto theme" "Ignored '$t' — use HH:MM (24-hour)." ;;
             esac
             exec "$0" autotheme ;;

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

modules/home/swaync.nix

@@ -71,12 +71,47 @@ in
           font-size: ${toString t.fonts.size}pt;
         }
 
-        .control-center .notification-row:focus,
-        .control-center .notification-row:hover {
+        /* Unscoped on purpose: the floating popup wraps .notification in
+           a .notification-row too, and swaync's DEFAULT stylesheet (still
+           loaded underneath this one) paints that row dark on hover — on
+           light themes the theme's dark @text then sat on the default's
+           dark hover, unreadable. The same alpha(@text) tint as
+           everywhere else overrides it in both surfaces. */
+        .notification-row:focus,
+        .notification-row:hover {
           background: alpha(@text, 0.1);
           border-radius: ${r}px;
         }
 
+        /* The REAL popup-hover culprit: the notification body is one big
+           GTK button (.notification-default-action), and the default
+           sheet hovers IT to rgb(56,56,56) — on light themes that put
+           dark @text on a dark chip (unreadable, hardware report
+           2026-07-18). Re-pin body + action buttons to the palette's
+           tint construction; hover stays a tint of @text, so it works
+           in both modes by construction. */
+        .notification-default-action,
+        .notification-action {
+          background: transparent;
+          color: @text;
+        }
+        .notification-default-action:hover,
+        .notification-action:hover {
+          background: alpha(@text, 0.08);
+        }
+
+        /* Same default-stylesheet leak: swaync ships a dark close-button
+           chip; re-pin both ends to the palette's tint construction. */
+        .close-button {
+          background: alpha(@text, 0.1);
+          color: @text;
+          border-radius: ${r}px;
+        }
+        .close-button:hover {
+          background: alpha(@text, 0.2);
+          color: @text;
+        }
+
         .widget-title {
           color: @text;
           font-weight: bold;

modules/home/timezone.nix

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ let
       cur=$(${pkgs.systemd}/bin/timedatectl show -p Timezone --value 2>/dev/null || true)
       [ "$cur" = "$last" ] && continue
       last=$cur
-      ${pkgs.procps}/bin/pkill -SIGUSR2 -x waybar 2>/dev/null || true
+      # Both comm names: nixpkgs wraps the binary as `.waybar-wrapped`.
+      ${pkgs.procps}/bin/pkill -SIGUSR2 -x 'waybar|\.waybar-wrapped' 2>/dev/null || true
     done
   '';
 in

modules/home/updates.nix

@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ let
       echo 0
     }
 
-    refresh_bar() { ${pkgs.procps}/bin/pkill -RTMIN+9 -x waybar 2>/dev/null || true; }
+    # Both comm names: nixpkgs wraps the binary as `.waybar-wrapped`.
+    refresh_bar() { ${pkgs.procps}/bin/pkill -RTMIN+9 -x 'waybar|\.waybar-wrapped' 2>/dev/null || true; }
 
     case "''${1:-status}" in
       check)

modules/home/waybar.nix

@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ let
   # Waybar supervisor — exec-once has no restart, so a crashed bar used to
   # leave the session bar-less until relogin (seen on hardware: a theme
   # switch crashed waybar mid-reload). Respawns on ANY exit — a plain
-  # `pkill -x waybar` is now a clean restart, which nomarchy-state-sync
-  # uses instead of the crash-prone in-place SIGUSR2 reload when it sees
-  # this supervisor running. Crash-loop guard: 5 exits within 10s of
+  # `pkill -x 'waybar|\.waybar-wrapped'` (nixpkgs wraps the binary, so
+  # the comm is `.waybar-wrapped`) is now a clean restart, which
+  # nomarchy-state-sync uses instead of the crash-prone in-place SIGUSR2
+  # reload when it sees this supervisor running. Crash-loop guard: 5 exits within 10s of
   # their start → give up with a critical notification instead of
   # spinning. Stop the bar for real: pkill -f nomarchy-waybar (TERM is
   # trapped to take the child down too).
@@ -162,7 +163,10 @@ let
     # normal tiling. Keep in sync with the whole-swap jsoncs (parity rule).
     layer = "bottom";
     position = "top";
-    height = 34;
+    # 36, not 34: the active-workspace pill is inset 3px top+bottom (CSS
+    # below) so it can never overhang the bar's border — the extra height
+    # keeps the pill's text from cramping inside the inset (#152).
+    height = 36;
     margin-top = t.ui.gapsOut;
     margin-left = t.ui.gapsOut;
     margin-right = t.ui.gapsOut;
@@ -423,14 +427,20 @@ let
       border-radius: ${toString t.ui.rounding}px;
     }
 
-    /* Dim states use the palette's @muted role: since item 28b it is
-       floor-guaranteed legible on @base in every theme (muted/base >=
-       2.0, gated by tools/check-theme-contrast.py) — the palettes that
-       once made it vanish (gruvbox muted≈base, item 27) were retuned.
+    /* Dim states use the palette's @muted role on DARK themes: since
+       item 28b it is floor-guaranteed legible on @base (muted/base >=
+       2.0, gated by tools/check-theme-contrast.py). On LIGHT themes that
+       2.0-floor grey washes out at number size — inactive workspace
+       numbers were unreadable on every light palette — so light mode
+       promotes them to @subtext (>= 3.0 floor, typically 4-7:1).
        Secondary-but-not-dim stays alpha(@text, 0.85). */
+    /* 3px vertical margin insets the active pill INSIDE the bar — without
+       it the filled button spans the bar's full inner height and visually
+       overhangs the rounded border (#152). */
     #workspaces button {
       padding: 0 8px;
-      color: @muted;
+      margin: 3px 0;
+      color: ${if t.mode == "light" then "@subtext" else "@muted"};
       border-radius: ${toString t.ui.rounding}px;
     }
 
@@ -458,7 +468,10 @@ let
       color: @accent;
       font-family: Nomarchy;
       font-size: ${toString (t.fonts.size + 4)}pt;
-      padding: 0 10px;
+      /* Wider outer padding: the bar's rounded corner curves into the
+         end module's box, so the edge glyphs need more room than the
+         uniform 10px or they look cramped (#152; power button mirrors). */
+      padding: 0 10px 0 14px;
     }
     #custom-nomarchy:hover { color: @accentAlt; }
 
@@ -466,6 +479,7 @@ let
       color: alpha(@text, 0.85);
       padding: 0 10px;
     }
+    #custom-powermenu { padding: 0 16px 0 10px; }
     #custom-powermenu:hover { color: @bad; }
 
     /* Group rhythm (item 28c): a wider breath before each functional

pkgs/nomarchy-airplane/default.nix

@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ writeShellScriptBin "nomarchy-airplane" ''
     networkmanager util-linux bluez coreutils gnugrep gawk libnotify procps
   ]}
 
+  # -x, both comm names: nixpkgs wraps the binary as `.waybar-wrapped`,
+  # and an unanchored `waybar` also matches (and kills) the
+  # nomarchy-waybar supervisor, whose bash dies on an unhandled RTMIN.
   poke_bar() {
-    pkill -RTMIN+11 waybar 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -RTMIN+11 -x 'waybar|\.waybar-wrapped' 2>/dev/null || true
   }
 
   wifi_enabled() {

pkgs/nomarchy-state-sync/default.nix

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
   pname = "nomarchy-state-sync";
-  version = "0.5.0";
+  version = "0.5.2";
 
   src = ./.;
 

pkgs/nomarchy-state-sync/nomarchy-state-sync.py

@@ -189,8 +189,17 @@ def auto_commit(message: str) -> None:
     if not (FLAKE_DIR / ".git").exists() or shutil.which("git") is None:
         return
     git = ["git", "-C", str(FLAKE_DIR)]
-    # Pathspec: preferred name plus any leftover legacy file still staged.
-    paths = [STATE_NAME, *LEGACY_STATE_NAMES]
+    # Pathspec: preferred name plus any legacy file git still knows — in the
+    # index or in HEAD (a migration's staged `git rm` needs the pathspec to
+    # ride along). Names known to neither MUST be dropped: unlike `git diff`,
+    # `git commit` aborts on a pathspec that matches nothing, which silently
+    # killed every auto-commit once the #107 rename removed the legacy files.
+    def known(name: str) -> bool:
+        return subprocess.run(git + ["ls-files", "--error-unmatch", "--", name],
+                              capture_output=True).returncode == 0 \
+            or subprocess.run(git + ["cat-file", "-e", f"HEAD:{name}"],
+                              capture_output=True).returncode == 0
+    paths = [STATE_NAME] + [n for n in LEGACY_STATE_NAMES if known(n)]
     # No-op when the file already matches HEAD (a `set` to the same value).
     # On a repo with no commits yet this diff errors — then just commit.
     if subprocess.run(git + ["diff", "--quiet", "HEAD", "--"] + paths,
@@ -438,14 +447,23 @@ def run_switch() -> None:
     # reload_style_on_change while the symlinks flip), so prefer the
     # restart whenever the supervisor is there to catch it; fall back to
     # SIGUSR2 for unsupervised/custom bars. No-ops if nothing is running.
+    # The pattern matches both comm names: nixpkgs wraps the binary, so
+    # the process is `.waybar-wrapped` — a bare `pkill -x waybar` matched
+    # nothing, theme switches never touched the bar, and it kept the
+    # gtk.css of whatever theme it was started under (the 2026-07-19
+    # stale-digit-color bug). Keep -x: unanchored `waybar` also matches
+    # the supervisor's own `nomarchy-waybar` comm and would kill it.
     if shutil.which("pkill"):
         supervised = subprocess.run(
             ["pgrep", "-f", "nomarchy-waybar"], capture_output=True
         ).returncode == 0
         if supervised:
-            subprocess.run(["pkill", "-x", "waybar"], check=False)
+            subprocess.run(["pkill", "-x", r"waybar|\.waybar-wrapped"], check=False)
         else:
-            subprocess.run(["pkill", "--signal", "SIGUSR2", "-x", "waybar"], check=False)
+            subprocess.run(
+                ["pkill", "--signal", "SIGUSR2", "-x", r"waybar|\.waybar-wrapped"],
+                check=False,
+            )
 
 
 # ─── Theme assets (wallpapers) ────────────────────────────────────────────

themes/boreal-dawn/waybar.css

@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ window#waybar {
 #workspaces { padding: 0 2px; }
 
 #workspaces button {
-  color: @muted;
+  /* @subtext, not @muted: on a light pill the 2.0-floor grey washes out
+     at number size — inactive workspaces must stay readable (6.4:1). */
+  color: @subtext;
   padding: 0 9px;
   margin: 3px 1px;
   border-radius: 9px;

themes/kiln-clay/waybar.css

@@ -117,7 +117,9 @@ window#waybar {
 #workspaces { padding: 0 2px; }
 
 #workspaces button {
-  color: @muted;
+  /* @subtext, not @muted: on the cream plank the 2.0-floor grey washes
+     out at number size — inactive workspaces must stay readable (6.6:1). */
+  color: @subtext;
   padding: 0 9px;
   margin: 3px 1px;
   border-radius: 6px;

themes/summer-day/waybar.css

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 @define-color grey0 #a6b0a0;
 @define-color grey1 #939f91; /* overlay */
 @define-color grey2 #829181; /* muted */
+@define-color fg_dim #6e828a; /* subtext */
 
 /* margin: top right bottom left */
 /* Spacing outside the element */
@@ -79,6 +80,14 @@ window#waybar {
   padding: 0px;
 }
 
+/* Inactive workspace numbers: without an explicit rule the GTK default
+   button color leaks in (the container's @fg does NOT inherit into
+   buttons) and the numbers vanish on the cream chip. @fg_dim = the
+   palette's subtext (4.0:1) — dim but readable. */
+#workspaces button {
+  color: @fg_dim;
+}
+
 /* The power-profile speedometer glyph renders small in its em box. */
 #custom-powerprofile {
   font-size: 20px;

tools/monitor-fallback.nix

@@ -140,8 +140,15 @@ pkgs.testers.runNixOSTest {
     # re-dock action.
     machine.succeed("printf 'state: closed\\n' > /run/nomarchy-test-lid-state")
     machine.succeed(hy + "reload'")
+    # A reload re-lights the *already-present* (disabled) Virtual-1 connector,
+    # which emits no `monitoradded` — so the watcher only re-disables it on its
+    # 1s idle tick (chatty IPC events `continue` past reconcile). Under this
+    # softGL VM's load (swaync crash-loops on the absent Vulkan device, see the
+    # journal) that idle tick is badly starved and the re-dock lands ~15-20s
+    # out — a real, prompt re-dock on hardware, but right on the old 15s bound,
+    # so this flaked. Bounded generously, in line with the 20-30s waits above.
     machine.wait_until_succeeds(
-        hy + "-j monitors' | jq -e 'all(.[]; .name != \"Virtual-1\")'", timeout=15
+        hy + "-j monitors' | jq -e 'all(.[]; .name != \"Virtual-1\")'", timeout=45
     )
     machine.succeed("journalctl -t nomarchy-display-watch | grep -q 'action=re-dock'")
     print("reload-mid-dock: panel re-disabled by enforce_dock_intent; re-dock logged (#148)")

tools/theme-shot.nix

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ pkgs.testers.runNixOSTest {
     machine.succeed("grep -q 'theme\\[main_bg\\]' /home/nomarchy/.config/btop/themes/nomarchy.theme")
     # Poke custom/doctor (signal 10) so a first-poll miss at session start
     # doesn't leave the tripwire blank for the full 300s interval.
-    machine.execute("su - nomarchy -c 'pkill -RTMIN+10 waybar' >/dev/null 2>&1 || true")
+    machine.execute("su - nomarchy -c \"pkill -RTMIN+10 -x 'waybar|\\.waybar-wrapped'\" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true")
     machine.sleep(3)
     # Park the cursor in the bottom-right corner so it doesn't sit in the
     # middle of the desktop shot (that frame doubles as the theme-picker