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Gabriel Brown f63b683979 Design Panama Health and Recovery 2026-08-18 07:52:25 -04:00
5 changed files with 32 additions and 597 deletions
@@ -1,44 +1,24 @@
// Brightness, from whichever source this machine actually has.
// Backlight slider, via brightnessctl.
//
// Two exist and they are not interchangeable:
//
// The kernel backlight class, driven by brightnessctl. Laptop panels have it;
// this desktop does not -- brightnessctl reports only keyboard and NIC LEDs.
//
// DDC/CI, the channel the buttons on a monitor's bezel drive. That is the
// only brightness an external display has, and it is per-monitor.
//
// A machine may have neither, either, or both, so this renders a row per source
// found and removes itself entirely when there are none, rather than sitting
// there as a dead control.
//
// Connector labels appear only when there is more than one row. A single
// slider needs no explanation of which screen it dims.
// This machine drives an external DisplayPort monitor and has no backlight
// class device at all (brightnessctl only reports keyboard/NIC LEDs), so the
// row removes itself rather than sitting there as a dead control. Probed once
// at startup — backlight devices do not appear and disappear.
import QtQuick
import Quickshell
import Quickshell.Io
import qs.widgets
import qs.config
import qs.services
Item {
id: root
property bool backlightAvailable: false
property real backlightValue: 0
property bool available: false
property real value: 0
readonly property int rowCount: (root.backlightAvailable ? 1 : 0) + Brightness.displays.length
readonly property bool labelled: root.rowCount > 1
visible: root.rowCount > 0
implicitHeight: rows.implicitHeight
// Probing I2C takes on the order of a second, so it waits until the panel
// is actually on screen rather than running at shell startup. Monitors do
// not come and go, so once is enough.
onVisibleChanged: if (visible && !Brightness.scanned) Brightness.refresh()
Component.onCompleted: if (root.visible && !Brightness.scanned) Brightness.refresh()
visible: root.available
implicitHeight: root.available ? 32 : 0
// `-m` is the machine-readable form: name,class,current,percent,max
Process {
@@ -54,105 +34,36 @@ Item {
const fields = line.split(",");
if (fields.length < 5 || fields[1] !== "backlight")
continue;
root.backlightAvailable = true;
root.backlightValue = parseInt(fields[3]) / 100;
root.available = true;
root.value = parseInt(fields[3]) / 100;
return;
}
}
function applyBacklight(v: real): void {
root.backlightValue = v;
function apply(v: real): void {
root.value = v;
// Never go fully dark: a 0% backlight looks like a broken shell.
Quickshell.execDetached(["brightnessctl", "-c", "backlight", "-q", "set", Math.max(1, Math.round(v * 100)) + "%"]);
}
Column {
id: rows
// ValueSlider draws its own leading icon, but symbolic icons need
// recolouring to be visible — see ThemedIcon.
ThemedIcon {
id: glyph
anchors.left: parent.left
anchors.right: parent.right
spacing: 4
BrightnessRow {
width: rows.width
visible: root.backlightAvailable
label: "Built-in"
value: root.backlightValue
onMoved: v => root.applyBacklight(v)
}
Repeater {
model: Brightness.displays
BrightnessRow {
required property var modelData
width: rows.width
// Hyprland already knows what each output is called, so the
// name comes from there rather than from a second source that
// could disagree with the Displays page. The connector is the
// fallback, so a display is never an unlabelled slider.
label: Displays.monitorNamed(modelData.connector)?.description || modelData.connector
value: modelData.value / 100
onMoved: v => Brightness.set(modelData.bus, Math.round(v * 100))
}
}
anchors.leftMargin: 6
anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
size: 17
icon: "display-brightness-symbolic"
}
component BrightnessRow: Item {
id: row
property string label: ""
property real value: 0
signal moved(real value)
implicitHeight: caption.height + control.height
Text {
id: caption
anchors.left: parent.left
anchors.right: parent.right
anchors.leftMargin: 6
anchors.rightMargin: 6
anchors.top: parent.top
visible: root.labelled
height: visible ? implicitHeight + 2 : 0
text: row.label
color: Theme.fgDim
font.family: Theme.fontFamily
font.pixelSize: Theme.fontSizeSmall
elide: Text.ElideRight
}
// The slider and its glyph share one strip so the two stay aligned
// whether or not a caption sits above them. Anchoring the glyph to
// both a caption and a centre line instead would conflict, and an
// anchor set to undefined is not released.
Item {
id: control
anchors.left: parent.left
anchors.right: parent.right
anchors.top: caption.bottom
height: 32
// ValueSlider draws its own leading icon, but symbolic icons need
// recolouring to be visible — see ThemedIcon.
ThemedIcon {
id: glyph
anchors.left: parent.left
anchors.leftMargin: 6
anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
size: 17
icon: "display-brightness-symbolic"
}
ValueSlider {
anchors.left: glyph.right
anchors.leftMargin: 12
anchors.right: parent.right
anchors.rightMargin: 32
anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
value: row.value
onMoved: v => row.moved(v)
}
}
ValueSlider {
anchors.left: glyph.right
anchors.leftMargin: 12
anchors.right: parent.right
anchors.rightMargin: 32
anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
value: root.value
onMoved: v => root.apply(v)
}
}
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
// Displays.
//
// Resolution, refresh rate, scale, and rotation, plus panel brightness and the
// gaming display policy that was already here.
// Resolution, refresh rate, scale, and rotation, plus the gaming display
// policy that was already here.
//
// Every geometry change goes through an apply-then-confirm countdown. This is
// the one page where a wrong value can leave the screen unreadable or blank,
@@ -32,14 +32,7 @@ SettingsPage {
root.selectedOutput = Displays.monitors.length > 0 ? Displays.monitors[0].name : "";
}
// Probing I2C for DDC-capable monitors takes on the order of a second, so
// it runs when this page is opened rather than at shell startup. Monitors
// do not appear while you are looking at a settings page, so once is enough.
Component.onCompleted: {
root.syncSelectedOutput();
if (!Brightness.scanned)
Brightness.refresh();
}
Component.onCompleted: root.syncSelectedOutput()
Connections {
target: Displays
function onMonitorsChanged(): void { root.syncSelectedOutput(); }
@@ -207,45 +200,6 @@ SettingsPage {
SliderRow { setting: "nightLightTemperature"; divider: false }
}
// Panel brightness, over DDC/CI.
//
// This is hardware state rather than a stored preference: the monitor
// remembers it, the bezel buttons change it behind Panama's back, and
// writing it into settings.json would mean restoring a value the panel had
// already moved on from. So there is no schema key here and no SliderRow --
// the rows read and write the display directly.
SettingsCard {
visible: Brightness.available || Brightness.lastError !== ""
title: "Brightness"
subtitle: Brightness.available
? "Sent to the monitor over DDC/CI, the same channel its buttons use."
: Brightness.lastError
Repeater {
model: Brightness.displays
SettingRow {
id: brightnessRow
required property var modelData
required property int index
label: Displays.monitorNamed(modelData.connector)?.description || modelData.connector
detail: modelData.connector ? modelData.connector + " · " + modelData.value + "%"
: modelData.value + "%"
divider: brightnessRow.index < Brightness.displays.length - 1
controlWidth: 190
ValueSlider {
anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
anchors.right: parent.right
width: parent.width
value: brightnessRow.modelData.value / 100
onMoved: v => Brightness.set(brightnessRow.modelData.bus, Math.round(v * 100))
}
}
}
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Gaming display policy"
subtitle: "Applied immediately and restored when Panama starts."
@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# External monitor brightness over DDC/CI.
#
# A desktop with no backlight class device has no brightness control at all --
# brightnessctl only sees keyboard and NIC LEDs. The panel itself still has a
# brightness setting, reachable over the monitor's DDC/CI channel (VCP feature
# 0x10), which is what the buttons on the bezel drive.
#
# Usage:
# panama-brightness list -> {"displays":[...],"error":""}
# panama-brightness get <bus> -> integer percent
# panama-brightness set <bus> <pct> -> applies, prints nothing
#
# Displays are enumerated from sysfs rather than from `ddcutil detect`. The
# kernel publishes the connector-to-I2C-bus mapping directly, as
# /sys/class/drm/<card>-<connector>/ddc, along with whether anything is plugged
# in. That is better than parsing detect output in three ways: the format is
# stable where detect's brief output is undocumented, the connector name comes
# out exactly as Hyprland and the Displays page already spell it (DP-2), and
# only connectors with a monitor attached get probed -- one bus on this machine
# instead of fourteen, which is the difference between a fast scan and a slow
# one, since each probe of an empty bus waits for a timeout.
#
# No model name is reported. Hyprland already knows the human-readable
# description of every output, so the UI joins on the connector name rather than
# having two sources of truth for what a monitor is called.
set -uo pipefail
readonly VCP_BRIGHTNESS=0x10
# Test seams. The contract needs to exercise enumeration and parsing on a
# machine whose real monitors it must not touch, so both roots this script
# reads are overridable. Nothing sets them in normal use.
readonly DRM_ROOT="${PANAMA_BRIGHTNESS_DRM_ROOT:-/sys/class/drm}"
readonly DEV_ROOT="${PANAMA_BRIGHTNESS_DEV_ROOT:-/dev}"
emit_error() {
printf '{"displays":[],"error":%s}\n' "$(jq -Rn --arg e "$1" '$e')"
exit 0
}
command -v ddcutil >/dev/null 2>&1 || emit_error 'ddcutil is not installed'
# Reading a VCP value needs read/write access to the monitor's I2C bus. The
# udev rule ddcutil ships grants that to the seat user through uaccess, but only
# to devices created after the rule was installed -- so a machine that installed
# ddcutil without rebooting has the rule in place and no access to show for it.
# That is by far the most likely reason for an empty list, and it is fixable in
# one command, so say so rather than reporting "no displays".
has_accessible_bus() {
local dev
for dev in "$DEV_ROOT"/i2c-*; do
[[ -r "$dev" && -w "$dev" ]] && return 0
done
return 1
}
cmd_list() {
has_accessible_bus || emit_error 'no I2C bus is accessible. ddcutil ships a udev rule that grants this, but only to devices created after it was installed. Run: sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=i2c-dev --subsystem-match=drm'
local rows=() connector bus value path
for path in "$DRM_ROOT"/card*-*; do
[[ -e "$path/ddc" ]] || continue
[[ "$(cat "$path/status" 2>/dev/null)" == "connected" ]] || continue
# card1-DP-2 -> DP-2, the name Hyprland uses.
connector="$(basename "$path")"
connector="${connector#card*-}"
bus="$(basename "$(readlink -f "$path/ddc")")"
bus="${bus#i2c-}"
[[ "$bus" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || continue
# A monitor that does not implement 0x10 is not an error; it simply
# cannot be controlled, and is left out rather than shown as a slider
# that does nothing.
value="$(cmd_get "$bus")" || continue
[[ -n "$value" ]] || continue
rows+=("$(jq -cn \
--argjson bus "$bus" \
--arg connector "$connector" \
--argjson value "$value" \
'{bus: $bus, connector: $connector, value: $value}')")
done
if [[ ${#rows[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
emit_error 'no connected monitor reports DDC/CI brightness. Some panels implement it only when "DDC/CI" is enabled in their on-screen menu.'
fi
printf '{"displays":[%s],"error":""}\n' "$(IFS=,; printf '%s' "${rows[*]}")"
}
# Prints the current brightness as a whole percent, or nothing when the display
# cannot report it. `getvcp --brief` is documented as machine readable and
# answers "VCP 10 C <current> <max>"; the max is almost always 100 but is not
# guaranteed to be, so it is read rather than assumed.
cmd_get() {
local bus="$1" out current max
out="$(timeout 10 ddcutil --bus "$bus" getvcp "$VCP_BRIGHTNESS" --brief 2>/dev/null)" || return 1
read -r _ _ _ current max <<<"$out"
[[ "$current" =~ ^[0-9]+$ && "$max" =~ ^[0-9]+$ && "$max" -gt 0 ]] || return 1
printf '%s' "$(( current * 100 / max ))"
}
cmd_set() {
local bus="$1" percent="$2" max out
[[ "$percent" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || return 1
(( percent > 100 )) && percent=100
out="$(timeout 10 ddcutil --bus "$bus" getvcp "$VCP_BRIGHTNESS" --brief 2>/dev/null)" || return 1
read -r _ _ _ _ max <<<"$out"
[[ "$max" =~ ^[0-9]+$ && "$max" -gt 0 ]] || max=100
timeout 10 ddcutil --bus "$bus" setvcp "$VCP_BRIGHTNESS" "$(( percent * max / 100 ))" >/dev/null 2>&1
}
case "${1:-list}" in
list) cmd_list ;;
get) cmd_get "${2:?bus required}" ;;
set) cmd_set "${2:?bus required}" "${3:?percent required}" ;;
*) printf 'usage: panama-brightness [list|get <bus>|set <bus> <percent>]\n' >&2; exit 2 ;;
esac
@@ -1,163 +0,0 @@
pragma Singleton
// Panel brightness for external monitors, over DDC/CI.
//
// brightnessctl covers laptop panels through the kernel's backlight class. A
// desktop driving a DisplayPort monitor has no such device, so it has no
// brightness control at all -- the only way to dim the screen is the buttons on
// the bezel. DDC/CI is the channel those buttons drive, and monitors expose it
// over the same I2C lines that carry EDID.
//
// Two things shape everything here:
//
// Detection is slow. Probing every I2C bus takes on the order of a second,
// which is far too slow to sit in front of a settings page opening. It runs
// once, on demand, and afterwards each display is addressed by its bus number
// directly.
//
// Writes are slow AND rate-limited by the monitor's firmware. A slider drag
// emits values continuously; sending each one produces a queue the panel
// works through seconds after the user let go, and some monitors drop or
// garble writes that arrive too fast. So `value` updates immediately for the
// UI and the hardware write is debounced, with only the latest value sent.
//
// Displays are keyed by DRM connector name (DP-2) so they line up with what
// Hyprland, the Displays page, and the monitor list already call them.
import Quickshell
import Quickshell.Io
import QtQuick
Singleton {
id: root
readonly property string helperPath: Quickshell.shellDir + "/scripts/panama-brightness"
// [{ bus, connector, model, value }] where value is 0..100.
property var displays: []
property bool scanning: false
// Empty when everything is fine. Carries the helper's explanation
// otherwise -- most usefully the udev command that grants I2C access,
// which is the difference between "brightness is unavailable" and
// "brightness is one command away".
property string lastError: ""
readonly property bool available: root.displays.length > 0
// True once a scan has completed, however it went. Lets the UI tell "not
// looked yet" apart from "looked and found nothing", which otherwise render
// identically and leave a permanently empty panel with no explanation.
property bool scanned: false
// Pending writes, keyed by bus. A monitor being dragged accumulates exactly
// one entry no matter how many values the slider emits.
property var pending: ({})
function refresh(): void {
if (root.scanning)
return;
root.scanning = true;
scan.running = true;
}
function displayFor(connector: string): var {
return root.displays.find(display => display.connector === connector) ?? null;
}
// Sets brightness for one display. The stored value moves at once so the
// slider tracks the pointer; the hardware follows when the drag settles.
function set(bus: int, percent: int): void {
const clamped = Math.max(0, Math.min(100, Math.round(percent)));
root.displays = root.displays.map(display =>
display.bus === bus ? Object.assign({}, display, { value: clamped }) : display);
const next = Object.assign({}, root.pending);
next[String(bus)] = clamped;
root.pending = next;
writeDebounce.restart();
}
Process {
id: scan
command: [root.helperPath, "list"]
stdout: StdioCollector {
onStreamFinished: {
try {
const parsed = JSON.parse(this.text);
root.displays = Array.isArray(parsed.displays) ? parsed.displays : [];
root.lastError = String(parsed.error ?? "");
} catch (error) {
root.displays = [];
root.lastError = "Could not read the brightness helper's output.";
console.warn("Brightness: could not parse helper output:", error);
}
root.scanning = false;
root.scanned = true;
}
}
}
// Long enough that a drag produces one write rather than dozens, short
// enough that a single click still feels immediate.
Timer {
id: writeDebounce
interval: 120
onTriggered: root.pump()
}
// Writes run one at a time, and each is read back.
//
// Serial because DDC/CI is a bus protocol with no arbitration: two ddcutil
// processes talking to the same monitor interleave their exchanges and both
// can come back with garbage. Read back because a write is not a promise --
// panels clamp to their own range, ignore values while waking from standby,
// and drop writes that arrive too quickly. Without the read the slider shows
// what Panama asked for rather than what the monitor did, which is the same
// class of lie as trusting `hyprctl keyword` to have applied something.
property int writingBus: -1
function pump(): void {
if (writer.running || reader.running)
return;
for (const bus in root.pending) {
const value = root.pending[bus];
const remaining = Object.assign({}, root.pending);
delete remaining[bus];
root.pending = remaining;
root.writingBus = parseInt(bus);
writer.command = [root.helperPath, "set", bus, String(value)];
writer.running = true;
return;
}
}
Process {
id: writer
onExited: {
reader.command = [root.helperPath, "get", String(root.writingBus)];
reader.running = true;
}
}
Process {
id: reader
stdout: StdioCollector {
onStreamFinished: {
const actual = parseInt(this.text.trim());
if (!isNaN(actual)) {
root.displays = root.displays.map(display =>
display.bus === root.writingBus
? Object.assign({}, display, { value: actual })
: display);
}
root.writingBus = -1;
// Anything queued while this write was in flight goes now.
root.pump();
}
}
}
}
@@ -1,142 +0,0 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# panama-brightness enumerates monitors from sysfs and speaks DDC/CI to them.
#
# The parts worth pinning down are the ones that decide whether a slider appears
# at all, and whether it appears attached to the right screen:
#
# * only connectors with something plugged in are probed, because probing an
# empty bus costs a timeout each and there are fourteen of them here;
# * a panel that cannot report brightness is omitted rather than shown as a
# control that does nothing;
# * the connector name matches what Hyprland calls the output, since the UI
# joins on it to get the monitor's description;
# * no I2C access produces the udev command that fixes it, not "no displays".
#
# Runs entirely against fixtures. Real monitors are never touched: both the
# sysfs root and the device root are redirected, and ddcutil is replaced on PATH.
set -uo pipefail
repo_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd)"
helper="$repo_dir/config/dot/quickshell/scripts/panama-brightness"
fail() {
printf 'brightness helper contract: %s\n' "$1" >&2
exit 1
}
fixture="$(mktemp -d /tmp/panama-brightness.XXXXXX)"
trap 'rm -rf "$fixture"' EXIT
mkdir -p "$fixture/drm" "$fixture/dev" "$fixture/bin" "$fixture/i2c"
# Two connectors with a monitor, two without. DP-2 answers DDC; DP-3 is
# connected but does not implement brightness. HDMI-A-1 and DP-1 are empty and
# must never be probed at all.
make_connector() {
local name="$1" bus="$2" status="$3"
mkdir -p "$fixture/drm/$name"
printf '%s\n' "$status" >"$fixture/drm/$name/status"
mkdir -p "$fixture/i2c/i2c-$bus"
ln -sfn "$fixture/i2c/i2c-$bus" "$fixture/drm/$name/ddc"
}
make_connector card1-DP-1 4 disconnected
make_connector card1-DP-2 5 connected
make_connector card1-DP-3 6 connected
make_connector card1-HDMI-A-1 7 disconnected
# has_accessible_bus only needs one readable/writable node to exist.
touch "$fixture/dev/i2c-5"
# Stub ddcutil. Records every bus it is asked about so the test can prove the
# disconnected ones were skipped. Bus 6 refuses, standing in for a panel without
# VCP 0x10.
#
# Bus 5 reports its brightness out of 200 rather than 100. Most panels do use
# 100, which is exactly the problem: with a maximum of 100 the scaling
# arithmetic is the identity, so a helper that ignored the reported maximum
# entirely would pass every assertion. 200 makes reads and writes that skip the
# conversion visibly wrong.
cat >"$fixture/bin/ddcutil" <<'STUB'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
bus=""
args=("$@")
for ((i = 0; i < ${#args[@]}; i++)); do
[[ "${args[$i]}" == "--bus" ]] && bus="${args[$((i + 1))]}"
done
printf '%s\n' "$bus" >>"$DDCUTIL_PROBE_LOG"
for arg in "$@"; do
if [[ "$arg" == "setvcp" ]]; then
printf 'set %s %s\n' "$bus" "${args[-1]}" >>"$DDCUTIL_SET_LOG"
exit 0
fi
done
case "$bus" in
5) printf 'VCP 10 C 120 200\n'; exit 0 ;;
*) exit 1 ;;
esac
STUB
chmod +x "$fixture/bin/ddcutil"
export DDCUTIL_PROBE_LOG="$fixture/probes.log"
export DDCUTIL_SET_LOG="$fixture/sets.log"
: >"$DDCUTIL_PROBE_LOG"
: >"$DDCUTIL_SET_LOG"
run_helper() {
PATH="$fixture/bin:$PATH" \
PANAMA_BRIGHTNESS_DRM_ROOT="$fixture/drm" \
PANAMA_BRIGHTNESS_DEV_ROOT="$fixture/dev" \
"$helper" "$@"
}
# ── Enumeration ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
listing="$(run_helper list)"
jq -e . >/dev/null 2>&1 <<<"$listing" || fail "list did not emit JSON: $listing"
[[ "$(jq -r '.displays | length' <<<"$listing")" == "1" ]] \
|| fail "expected exactly one controllable display, got: $listing"
[[ "$(jq -r '.displays[0].connector' <<<"$listing")" == "DP-2" ]] \
|| fail "the connector name must match Hyprland's output name: $listing"
[[ "$(jq -r '.displays[0].bus' <<<"$listing")" == "5" ]] \
|| fail "the display was mapped to the wrong I2C bus: $listing"
# 120 of a maximum of 200 is 60%.
[[ "$(jq -r '.displays[0].value' <<<"$listing")" == "60" ]] \
|| fail "brightness was not read as a percent of the reported maximum: $listing"
[[ "$(jq -r '.error' <<<"$listing")" == "" ]] \
|| fail "a successful listing must not carry an error: $listing"
# A connected panel that cannot report brightness is dropped, not listed.
jq -e '.displays | map(.connector) | index("DP-3") == null' >/dev/null <<<"$listing" \
|| fail 'a display without VCP 0x10 was listed as controllable'
# ── Disconnected connectors are never probed ─────────────────────────────────
if grep -qxE '4|7' "$DDCUTIL_PROBE_LOG"; then
fail "a disconnected connector was probed -- each empty bus costs a timeout: $(tr '\n' ' ' <"$DDCUTIL_PROBE_LOG")"
fi
# ── Writes scale to the reported maximum ─────────────────────────────────────
run_helper set 5 40
[[ "$(tail -1 "$DDCUTIL_SET_LOG")" == "set 5 80" ]] \
|| fail "set did not scale to the display's maximum: $(cat "$DDCUTIL_SET_LOG")"
run_helper set 5 500
[[ "$(tail -1 "$DDCUTIL_SET_LOG")" == "set 5 200" ]] \
|| fail "an out-of-range percent was not clamped: $(cat "$DDCUTIL_SET_LOG")"
# ── No I2C access explains itself ────────────────────────────────────────────
rm -f "$fixture/dev"/i2c-*
denied="$(run_helper list)"
[[ "$(jq -r '.displays | length' <<<"$denied")" == "0" ]] \
|| fail "displays were reported without I2C access: $denied"
grep -q 'udevadm' <<<"$(jq -r '.error' <<<"$denied")" \
|| fail "the no-access error must name the command that fixes it, got: $(jq -r '.error' <<<"$denied")"
printf 'brightness helper contract: PASS\n'