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