Give a laptop its first week: the keys, the lid, the battery's endgame

The audit's fourth tier -- what a Framework owner reaches for in the first
week and found missing.

The power button stops being an instant, unconfirmed poweroff: a shipped
logind drop-in tells the daemon to stand down and the compositor binds the
key to the power menu, the way GNOME turns it into a question. Holding it
still hard-cuts through firmware. change-settings restarts logind so the
change applies without waiting for a boot, and the Power page says what the
button does now.

The function row fills in: F10 (XF86RFKill) toggles airplane mode through a
new panama-osd verb that blocks or unblocks every radio and says which way it
went; F9 (XF86Display) opens the Displays page, the honest action until
mirroring exists. And the lid becomes a switch bind: closing a docked lid
turns the internal panel off so nothing renders inside a closed shell and no
workspace strands on an invisible output, and opening it restores the panel
with the mode and scale chosen in Settings. panama-lid owns both decisions;
undocked machines suspend via logind before any of it matters.

The battery gets an endgame. On battery the screen dims to 30% two-thirds of
the way to blanking -- GNOME's single largest idle battery saver -- and
restores exactly the level it saved. At the urgent threshold the machine
suspends after a fifteen-second grace, cancelled by plugging in, because a
suspend preserves the session for days and a hard cut at 0% preserves
nothing; "Only warn" remains a choice on the Power page. Hibernate joins the
power menu, but only where logind answers CanHibernate with yes -- an entry
that fails silently is worse than none.

And brightness stops being two code paths: the Displays page now embeds the
same control the quick-settings panel uses, so the built-in backlight and
DDC/CI monitors share one surface that withdraws itself where neither
exists. The lid contract narrows to what its principle protects -- a
HandleLidSwitch drop-in -- so deliberate policy for other keys can ship.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh
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Do not edit this file. Run `quickshell/scripts/panama-settings-docs`
after changing the schema; a contract fails when this copy is stale.
149 settings across 30 groups. 70 of them are applied to the compositor and confirmed by reading the value back.
150 settings across 30 groups. 70 of them are applied to the compositor and confirmed by reading the value back.
## accessibility
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| **Warn at**<br>`batteryLowPercent` | 20 % | Mention the battery once it drops this low. Range 550. |
| **Urgent at**<br>`batteryCriticalPercent` | 5 % | Interrupt at this level, even during Do Not Disturb. Range 125. |
| **At the urgent level**<br>`batteryCriticalAction` | suspend | What happens when the battery reaches the urgent threshold while discharging Choices: Suspend, Only warn. |
| **Stop charging at**<br>`batteryChargeLimit` | 100 % | Charging to less than full is easier on the battery over years. Range 50100. |
## capture