Take one machine's fingerprints off everyone's desktop

The audit's second tier: values that were measurements of the author's
desktop, shipped to every machine as if they were defaults.

Settings greeted every human as Gabriel; it now greets whoever
accountsservice says is signed in, and nobody when it says nothing. The
weather shipped his home coordinates and confidently reported his forecast
anywhere on earth; it now ships unset, fetches nothing until a location is
chosen, and the location row says so. The GTK bookmarks carried seven
/home/gib paths and his file server into every file dialog; they are now
generated per machine from a template and gitignored -- Nautilus edits the
instance freely, the way settings.ini already worked one file over. Web
search routed through his personal bang redirector; the engine is now the
webSearchUrl preference with a DuckDuckGo default, read by both the script
command and the suggestions extension, which the launcher-search contract
already pins to one another. The GPU vitals path defaulted to his card1 and
lost the readout on any machine enumerated differently; a machine with
exactly one GPU now adopts it. And the Containers and Snapshots pages hide
once a scan proves their backing stack absent, instead of rendering
permanently empty on machines that never had podman or snapper.

Lesser residue swept in the same pass: the DP-2 hyprpaper block one machine
needed, the author's username-typo expansions (moved to his personal seed in
user/, where personal content belongs), a capture fallback into /home/gib,
and a parity table asserting one machine's hardware as fact.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh

config/dot/quickshell/config/PreferenceSchema.qml

@@ -1297,28 +1297,44 @@ Singleton {
             detail: "Which GPU the graphics readout in the bar measures"
         },
 
+        // ── Search ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+        // The launcher's web search appends the query to this. It shipped
+        // pointing at the author's personal bang redirector once; a stranger's
+        // searches belong to no one's server but the engine they chose.
+        {
+            key: "webSearchUrl", type: "string",
+            def: "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=", group: "search",
+            pattern: "^https://[^\\s]{1,200}$",
+            label: "Web search engine",
+            detail: "Where the launcher's web search sends a query; the search text is appended"
+        },
+
         // ── Weather location ────────────────────────────────────────────────
         // Coordinates rather than a place name, because that is what Open-Meteo
         // takes and it needs no API key. weatherLocation is only the label shown
         // in the UI; it is never sent anywhere, so it can say whatever makes the
         // reading recognizable.
         {
-            key: "weatherLatitude", type: "real", def: 27.7375, min: -90, max: 90, step: 0.0001,
+            key: "weatherLatitude", type: "real", def: 0, min: -90, max: 90, step: 0.0001,
             group: "weather", internal: true,
             label: "Latitude",
             detail: "Set by choosing a location"
         },
         {
-            key: "weatherLongitude", type: "real", def: -82.6861, min: -180, max: 180, step: 0.0001,
+            key: "weatherLongitude", type: "real", def: 0, min: -180, max: 180, step: 0.0001,
             group: "weather", internal: true,
             label: "Longitude",
             detail: "Set by choosing a location"
         },
+        // Empty until a location is chosen. The shipped value was once the
+        // author's home town, which confidently reported his weather on every
+        // machine anywhere; an unset location fetches nothing and says so
+        // instead.
         {
-            key: "weatherLocation", type: "string", def: "Local weather", group: "weather",
+            key: "weatherLocation", type: "string", def: "", group: "weather",
             internal: true,
             // Display only -- never sent to the weather service.
-            pattern: "^[^\\n]{1,64}$",
+            pattern: "^[^\\n]{0,64}$",
             label: "Weather location",
             detail: "The place the weather reading is for"
         },

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ApplicationsPage.qml

@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ SettingsPage {
         title: "Search"
         subtitle: "Applications, files, the calculator, clipboard history, emoji, and open windows are all searched from the launcher."
 
+        TextEntryRow { setting: "webSearchUrl"; placeholder: "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=" }
+
         TextRow {
             label: "Launcher"
             detail: SystemSettings.vicinaeActive

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/HomePage.qml

@@ -96,7 +96,17 @@ SettingsPage {
         return match[2] ? match[1] + " " + match[2].toUpperCase() : match[1];
     }
 
-    title: `${root.greeting}, Gabriel`
+    // Greets whoever is signed in, from the same accountsservice record the
+    // lock screen shows. This once hardcoded the author's first name, which
+    // made the first screen of Settings wrong for every other human.
+    readonly property string greetingName: {
+        if (!UserAccounts.me)
+            return "";
+        const full = UserAccounts.displayName(UserAccounts.me);
+        return full.split(" ")[0] || "";
+    }
+
+    title: root.greetingName !== "" ? `${root.greeting}, ${root.greetingName}` : root.greeting
     lede: Weather.available
         ? Math.round(Weather.temperature) + Weather.unitSuffix + " and "
           + Weather.description.toLowerCase() + " in " + Settings.weatherLocation
@@ -275,7 +285,7 @@ SettingsPage {
 
             label: "Location"
             detail: "Only the search term is sent; the name is a label kept on this machine"
-            value: Settings.weatherLocation
+            value: Settings.weatherLocation !== "" ? Settings.weatherLocation : "Not set — choose one to see weather"
 
             LocationPicker {
                 width: parent.width

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SettingsSidebar.qml

@@ -55,6 +55,22 @@ Rectangle {
         { page: "about", label: "About", icon: "\u{F02FD}" }
     ]
 
+    // Pages whose entire backing stack can be absent hide once a scan has
+    // proven it absent: a Containers page with no podman and a Snapshots page
+    // with no snapper configuration render permanently empty, which reads as
+    // broken rather than inapplicable. Until the scan lands they stay
+    // visible, so machines that have the stack never see a blink -- and both
+    // scans fire when Settings opens (HomePage.onCompleted).
+    function pageAvailable(page: string): bool {
+        switch (page) {
+        case "containers":
+            return !Containers.scanned || Containers.available;
+        case "snapshots":
+            return !Snapshots.scanned || Snapshots.configs.length > 0;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
     width: 272
     color: Theme.alpha(Theme.bgDark, 0.96)
     border.width: 0
@@ -236,6 +252,7 @@ Rectangle {
                     Rectangle {
                         id: navItem
                         required property var modelData
+                        visible: root.pageAvailable(modelData.page)
                         width: parent.width
                         height: 40
                         radius: 10

config/dot/quickshell/services/Capture.qml

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Singleton {
     property real coordinateScale: 1.0
 
     // ── Paths ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-    readonly property string _home: Quickshell.env("HOME") || "/home/gib"
+    readonly property string _home: Quickshell.env("HOME") || ""
 
     // Both folders are settings now rather than a choice of three, so both can
     // name somewhere outside home -- a second drive, a network mount. Prefixing

config/dot/quickshell/services/GraphicsDevices.qml

@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ Singleton {
                     const parsed = JSON.parse(this.text);
                     root.devices = Array.isArray(parsed) ? parsed : [];
                     root.lastError = "";
+                    // The shipped default is one machine's card index, and
+                    // card numbering means nothing across machines. When the
+                    // stored path is not present here and there is exactly
+                    // one real answer, adopt it -- a single-GPU laptop should
+                    // not lose its vitals readout to a desktop's enumeration.
+                    if (root.selectionMissing && root.devices.length === 1)
+                        root.select(root.devices[0].path);
                 } catch (error) {
                     root.devices = [];
                     root.lastError = "The graphics devices could not be read.";

config/dot/quickshell/services/SettingsSearch.qml

@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ Singleton {
         "weather": "home",
         "notifications": "notifications",
         "capture": "screen-intelligence",
-        "gaming": "gaming"
+        "gaming": "gaming",
+        "search": "applications"
     })
 
     // Settings that are real but have no schema entry, because the system owns

config/dot/quickshell/services/Weather.qml

@@ -59,7 +59,15 @@ Singleton {
         }
     }
 
+    // Nothing was chosen yet: fetch nothing, claim nothing. The card offers
+    // the location picker instead.
+    readonly property bool configured: Settings.weatherLocation !== ""
+
     function refresh(): void {
+        if (!root.configured) {
+            root.available = false;
+            return;
+        }
         // Skip if the previous fetch is somehow still in flight.
         if (!fetch.running)
             fetch.running = true;