Coherence: one component per idea, one spelling per word, one truth per claim

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-25 02:21:45 -04:00
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@@ -49,5 +49,32 @@ clock in the middle and status on the right. There is still a dock. Volume
and brightness keys still work, and still work on the lock screen. Copy and
paste are unchanged. Your files are where you left them.
GNOME Settings is still installed for the few panels Panama deliberately does
not own, and Panama's own Settings hands off to it where that applies.
## Where the settings went
`Super + I` opens Panama's own Settings. The sidebar is where GNOME's panels
ended up, and it is worth one read so you never have to hunt:
| If you are looking for | It is under |
|---|---|
| Themes, wallpaper, fonts, text size, titlebars | Appearance |
| The bar, the dock, Control Center, tiling, workspaces | Shell |
| Resolution, scale, arrangement, night light | Displays |
| Output and input devices, per-application volume | Sound |
| Do Not Disturb, per-application rules, focus modes | Notifications & Focus |
| Shortcuts, mouse and touchpad, dictation | Input |
| Wi-Fi and VPN, the firewall, sharing, printers | Network & Sharing |
| Default applications, autostart, gaming, Screen Intelligence | Applications |
| The accounts on this machine, and online ones | Users & Accounts |
| Permissions, saved passwords, what the machine remembers, SSH keys | Privacy & Security |
| Battery, the lid, the power button, idle and lock timings | Power & Lock |
| Magnifier, color filters, reduced motion, screen reader | Accessibility |
| Updates, storage, snapshots, date and time, backups | System |
Home is the page `Super + I` lands on. The search box above the sidebar
searches the settings themselves rather than the page names, so typing what you
want to change is usually faster than remembering which of those it lives in.
GNOME Settings is still installed, and Panama's Settings opens it in exactly
two places: adding an online account, which has to go through the provider's
own dialog, and Digital wellbeing, which is the one panel of GNOME's that does
something Panama does not.
@@ -58,3 +58,9 @@ one I have".
Settings has a [Keyboard page](panama://settings/shortcuts), under Input, listing every bind, each of which
can be reassigned. A rebind moves the shortcut and cannot change what it does, so
there is no way to make a key do something unexpected by editing it.
Shortcuts you invent live in the same list, in a **Custom** group above the
rest. One of those names an application, a shell action or a window move rather
than storing a command — for the same reason: what you are choosing is which
key, not what it runs. A chord something already holds is refused rather than
stolen, so a new shortcut can never quietly cost you an old one.
@@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ follows you between workspaces. A floating window can be moved by holding
## Workspaces
Ten of them, on `Alt + 1` through `Alt + 0`. `Alt + H` and `Alt + L` step
between neighbours, and `Alt + Shift` plus a number sends the current window
somewhere without following it.
Ten you can jump straight to, on `Alt + 1` through `Alt + 0`, though they are
created and destroyed as you use them rather than sitting there empty. `Alt + H`
and `Alt + L` step between neighbours — right past the last one makes a new one,
left from the first stays put — and `Alt + Shift` plus a number sends the
current window somewhere without following it.
On a machine with more than one display, workspaces belong to whichever
screen has focus. If you would rather pin workspaces one through ten to your
@@ -41,6 +43,29 @@ How windows share the space — the layout, the master area, gaps and window
edges — is Shell Tiling. The workspace switches themselves, and the projects
below, are Shell Workspaces.
## The touchpad
Three fingers sideways moves between workspaces and follows your fingers as it
goes; three fingers up opens the overview and three down closes it. Those are
GNOME's gestures, reproduced, and they do not move.
Four fingers are yours. Each of the four directions can be given a job — a shell
action, a window or workspace move — from the same list your own shortcuts pick
from, on Input Mouse & Touchpad. Assigning one reloads the compositor, so
expect a beat of black before it works. Unassigned directions are left alone
rather than bound to nothing.
## Rules for one application
Some windows want the same treatment every time: the password manager should
float, chat should open on workspace four, a picture viewer should not be
resized to fill half the screen. **Application window rules** on Shell Tiling is where that
is written down. You pick an application and tick what should happen to it —
float, center it, pin it to every workspace, give it a fixed size or a
workspace to open on — rather than writing a match pattern. Panama's own
surfaces cannot be targeted, and a rule with nothing ticked is refused rather
than saved as a row you would wonder about later.
## Projects
A project is the set of windows you open together: which applications, which
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ From a terminal, the same check is `panama doctor`.
## The shell is gone
If the bar and dock disappear, the Quickshell process died. **Restart Shell**
from the launcher brings it back. If the launcher is also gone, press
If the bar and dock disappear, the Quickshell process died. **Restart Desktop
Shell** from the launcher brings it back. If the launcher is also gone, press
`Super + Shift + R` for the fallback launcher, which depends on nothing but
itself and exists for exactly this.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Settings has a [Displays page](panama://settings/displays). It opens on a pictur
one display or several — and everything under that picture belongs to
whichever one you have selected. Every change there reverts itself after
fifteen seconds unless you confirm it, so a mode your monitor cannot show
cannot strand you, and that covers colour, bit depth and mirroring as well as
cannot strand you, and that covers color, bit depth and mirroring as well as
resolution, scale and rotation. If you are already stranded, `hyprctl
monitors` from a terminal shows what is applied.
@@ -45,6 +45,29 @@ labelled as an unverified claim, beside the real action.
If you did not expect it at all, cancel. Nothing that needs privileges is
harmed by being refused.
## A button did nothing except change its wording
That is the button working. Anything in Settings that removes something takes
two presses: the first arms it, and the row then shows what is about to happen
beside a **Keep** that backs out. The second press is the one that does it.
Only one button in Settings is armed at a time, so arming a second one disarms
the first, wherever it was.
## The network I need is not in the list
The Wi-Fi list is what is in range. **Saved networks**, further down
[Connections](panama://settings/connectivity), is what this machine remembers,
including the ones nowhere near you — which is where to tidy up a profile you
want rid of, rather than waiting until you are standing next to it again. A
network that broadcasts no name is joined with **Join a hidden network…**, at
the bottom of the list.
Opening a connection shows what it actually got — address, gateway, DNS — and
is where you give it a fixed address instead when what it got does not work,
or mark it metered so updates and large downloads wait until you are somewhere
else.
## After an update, something is not right
`panama migrate` applies repairs this machine has not had yet. It is safe to