# Making it yours

## Settings

`Super + I`. Fourteen categories down the side, covering appearance, displays,
sound, input, network, power, accounts and the rest. A category with more than
one subject in it opens a row of tabs above the page, which is where the
narrower topics live: Printers is a tab of Network & Sharing, Dictation a tab
of Input, and About, Software Update, Storage, Snapshots and this manual are
tabs of System.

Home is the first of them, and the page `Super + I` lands on. Its Overview tab
is the one you already know; My Home lists your Home Assistant lights by room
alongside the accessories Control Center shows, and Phone holds the iPhone
handoffs — battery, ring it, send it the clipboard or a file, and Messages.

The search box at the top searches the settings themselves rather than page
names, and each result says where it will land, so if you know what you want
to change you can type it and never touch the sidebar.

## Appearance

The Appearance page opens on **Themes**. At the top are light and dark, side by
side, each showing the theme it will land on; below them are two galleries —
six dark themes and four light ones, including Catppuccin, Nord, Gruvbox and
Everforest alongside Panama's own Tokyo Night Moon and Day.

Light and dark remember separately. Pick Everforest for the dark side and
Catppuccin Latte for the light one, and flipping between them lands on each
rather than resetting to the shipped pair.

Choosing a theme repaints the shell, the terminal, GTK applications, the lock
screen and the system monitor at once — not just the shell's own windows.

### Build your own

The **Theme editor** tab is four colours: primary, secondary, background and
foreground. Each has a swatch, a hex field you can type into, a colour wheel
and an eyedropper for sampling anything on screen. Background and foreground
are not single colours — the panels, popovers, dividers and dimmed text are all
mixed from them, so moving the background moves the whole family with it.

Under that, a saturation slider for the whole palette at once, a fine-tune for
the exact hue of each end of the accent, and the effects — corners, blur,
shadows, glow and motion. Save it with a name and it appears in the galleries
above beside the shipped ones, effects included. Editing a shipped theme does
not damage it: it makes you a copy.

### Wallpapers

The wallpaper is per-monitor if you want it to be, and it can be a video.

Videos loop muted and decode on the GPU. They pause themselves while a game is
running, and on battery unless you say otherwise; while one is playing a pill
appears in the bar, and clicking it pauses immediately — for a call, a
recording, or just quiet. The lock screen shows a still frame from the video,
because it cannot play motion.

### Titlebars

There is no minimize button, on Panama's windows or on GNOME applications.
Hyprland has no minimize, so the button would do nothing; maximize means very
little in a tiler. You get close, on whichever side you prefer. Panama's own
titlebar can be turned off entirely, which leaves the Settings window bare:
`Super + Q` closes it, `Super + drag` moves it, `Escape` still works.

## Applications

`panama apps` in a terminal offers the optional application categories the
installer asked about, so a machine can acquire Slack in March without having
wanted Discord in January.

`panama app` builds the handful of applications no repository carries. It is
deliberately not part of installing, because a source build is slow and
depends on an upstream that moves.

## Autostart and defaults

The Applications settings page controls which application opens which kind of
file, and what starts when you log in.

## Going further

The compositor is configured in Lua under `~/.config/hypr`, and every file
there explains what it does and why. `overrides.lua` is loaded last and is
the intended place for per-machine changes, so you can adjust anything
without editing a file the repository will update.

The shell is QML under `~/.config/quickshell`. Both directories are symlinks
into the Panama repository, so an edit is a change to your checkout and
`panama update` will offer to commit it.