fix(gtk): scope the #98 button-label pin to dialogs — it was repainting the bar

The bare `button, button label` selectors in the #98 safety net load
into every GTK3 process, including Waybar, and a rule matching the label
node outranks the color waybar.css inherits onto `#workspaces button` —
so workspace digits always rendered the gtk.css text color captured at
bar start, never the theme's @muted dots / @base-on-accent active pill
(the pair check-theme-contrast.py gates). With the bar never restarting
on switch (previous commit) the pin also went stale: all three 2026-07-18
screenshots carried kiln-clay's @text #39302A across three dark themes.
Scoped the enabled+disabled pins to the dialog selectors #98 actually
targeted; forcing adw-gtk3-dark remains the primary #98 fix, and the
sheet's own bare `label` rule sets only caret-color, so inheritance
carries the bar colors again.

Verified live on Newton (V3-grade): under the scoped gtk.css, boreal
renders the designed digits — @base #21272F on the @accent pill, @muted
#5E6A78 inactives — pixel-sampled from a bar spawned on a headless
output. V1: HM generation builds; bare selectors absent from the built
gtk.css, dialog-scoped ones present. Journal, hardware-queue (deploy
round-trip) and ROADMAP follow-up ride along.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

agent/HARDWARE-QUEUE.md

@@ -616,6 +616,15 @@ Everything else below stays open; order is convenience, not a gate.
       Acer's own fontconfig/DPI resolving `ch` the same way — try it under a
       **JetBrainsMono 14 theme** (summer-day/night, kanagawa), the widest case.
 
+- [ ] **Theme-switch bar round-trip (2026-07-19 waybar-poke + gtk-pin fix)** —
+      after `nomarchy-pull` + `nomarchy-home`, switch dark → light → dark
+      (e.g. boreal → kiln-clay → kiln). Pass = the bar visibly restarts on
+      each switch and the workspace digits land per theme (dark-on-accent
+      active pill, dimmed inactives on dark themes) with no color carried
+      over from the previous theme; then start/stop a screen recording and
+      toggle airplane mode — the supervisor must survive both pokes
+      (`pgrep -lx nomarchy-waybar` still lists it).
+
 ## Latitude 5310 / 5410 only
 - [ ] **v1 QA batch on-hardware pass** (583708d batch was QEMU-verified) —
       general smoke before the next `main → v1` promotion (broader than

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/ROADMAP.md

@@ -1947,6 +1947,12 @@ Design/decision records and a running log of shipped work (items marked
   unsupervised/custom bars; `reload_style_on_change` stays for manual
   `home-update` restyles. VM-verified on the headless software-GL
   desktop: SIGKILL → new pid; clean kill → respawn; SIGUSR2 → alive.
+  **Follow-up (2026-07-19):** a later waybar package wrap renamed the
+  comm to `.waybar-wrapped`, silently no-oping every `pkill -x waybar`
+  (switches stopped touching the bar → the stale workspace-digit-color
+  bug), while the *unanchored* RTMIN pokes substring-matched the
+  supervisor's `nomarchy-waybar` comm and killed it. All pokes now use
+  `-x 'waybar|\.waybar-wrapped'`.
 - ✓ **`sys-rebuild`** (Latitude QA request): the no-update twin of
   `sys-update` — snapshot-first system rebuild against the *current*
   lock, for config-only changes; `home-update` was already lock-free.

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/stylix.nix

@@ -128,8 +128,18 @@ in
               color: #${base16.base00};
             }
 
-            /* Dialog / message-box action buttons (#98). */
+            /* Dialog / message-box action buttons (#98) — dialog-scoped
-            button, button label,
+               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/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
+  # `pkill -x 'waybar|\.waybar-wrapped'` (nixpkgs wraps the binary, so
-  # uses instead of the crash-prone in-place SIGUSR2 reload when it sees
+  # the comm is `.waybar-wrapped`) is now a clean restart, which
-  # this supervisor running. Crash-loop guard: 5 exits within 10s of
+  # 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).

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 = "0.5.1";
+  version = "0.5.2";
 
   src = ./.;
 

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

@@ -447,14 +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) ────────────────────────────────────────────

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