nomarchy-launch-walker guarded its manual elephant start with
`pgrep -x elephant`, which never matches the Home Manager service's actual
process name `.elephant-wrapped` (Linux truncates comm to 15 chars). So every
menu invocation spawned a second elephant that races elephant.service for the
socket — a latent source of menus intermittently coming up empty.
Gate on `systemctl --user is-active elephant.service` first, with a working
`pgrep -f elephant-wrapped` fallback for non-service setups; do the same for
walker.service. Verified in a headless system.build.vm: opening the theme menu
now keeps the elephant process count at 1 (was 2) and the menu still renders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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