Found by codex's GNOME Tweaks audit and verified against the compositor:
`hyprctl descriptions` publishes input:follow_mouse as
map: [{"separate":3},{"detached":2},{"follow":1},{"disabled":0}].
Panama labelled 0 "Never", 1 "Click to focus", 2 "Sloppy focus". So this
desktop, sitting on the shipped value of 1, has been running
focus-follows-pointer the whole time while Settings called it "Click to
focus" -- and the way to actually GET click-to-focus was to choose
"Never". Value 3 was not offered at all. hypr/input.lua carried the same
wrong claim in a comment.
The shipped VALUE is left alone. Which focus mode this desktop should
use is a behaviour decision rather than a correction, and all four are
now reachable from Settings.
Nothing could have caught this. The compositor accepts 1, reads back 1,
and the write contract passes: the value is valid, it just means
something other than the label. The only authority on what each number
MEANS is the compositor, and it publishes that. So enum-hypr-map-contract
now checks every compositor-backed enum against the published map --
that offered values exist, and that published values are offered, since
a missing one is a capability nobody can reach.
Writing it immediately found two more of the same: variable refresh rate
offered Off and fullscreen-games while the compositor publishes four
(always-on and fullscreen-only were unreachable, and fullscreen-only is
what someone wanting VRR for video rather than games wants), and direct
scanout was missing its always-on value. Both now offer everything, with
a detail line per option rather than a bare word.
Verified the contract catches the original followMouse gap and a value
outside the map.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
Panama had grown into three configuration surfaces that only agreed because
they had been typed to agree: looks.lua hardcoded values, DesktopPreferences
independently defaulted the same values, and SystemSettings replayed them at
startup. Nothing kept them in sync, and the Lua side read no shared state at
all. This lands the first three stages of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-17-panama-cohesion.md.
Fix silently failing Hyprland writes. On a Lua-configured Hyprland, hyprctl
keyword refuses the write, prints the refusal to stdout, and still exits 0, so
the HDR, VRR, and direct-scanout toggles persisted their value and reported
success while the compositor never changed. Writes now go through hyprctl eval,
which has the same hazard on syntax and runtime errors, so success is defined
as reading the value back and finding it equal. The existing contract passed
throughout the outage because it re-applied the values already in place; the
new one flips each value to something it does not hold.
Derive preferences from a schema. Every setting used to be restated four times
-- a property alias, a JSON adapter property, a change handler, and a line in
reset -- where omitting any one failed silently. PreferenceSchema.qml is now
the single source, and persistence, validation, reset, and the Hyprland mapping
all derive from it. Unknown keys on disk survive a write so a rollback does not
discard a newer build's settings, and a corrupt file falls back to shipped
defaults. The store moved to ~/.config/panama/settings.json, migrating from the
old state directory without deleting it.
Share that file with Hyprland. prefs.lua reads it at config time with every
shipped literal kept as the fallback, so the config still stands alone. The Lua
is the default, the JSON is the truth, and Settings is the editor. The
compositor-adjustable surface goes from 3 keys to 23.
Also fixes two test-hygiene bugs found by running the suite end to end for the
first time: settings-pages-contract could see the window settings-window-contract
leaves behind, and the new write contract was persisting its deliberately-wrong
values into the user's real store.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
Gabriel Brown