Gabriel Brown
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docs/ is engineering artifacts -- design specs, plans, an upstream ledger -- and none of it is written for the person who has to live here. Five chapters that are: coming from another desktop, the keyboard, windows and workspaces, when something breaks, and making it yours. Rendered inside Settings rather than opened in a browser, so a chapter that says "the Displays page reverts after fifteen seconds" is one click from the Displays page. Qt's markdown renderer does the work; one chapter per Text, because Text has an implicit texture size limit and a document long enough to hit it goes blank rather than complaining. The chapters live beside the shell in manual/ rather than at the repository root, which departs from the plan. The reason is the path: the shell finds them through Quickshell.shellDir, which is correct wherever the repository is, whereas walking upward out of the shell directory is only correct by accident. The contract fails that pattern if it comes back. The contract also pins the set both ways -- every chapter listed exists, every chapter that exists is listed -- because a renamed file shows an error card where a chapter should be, which reads as a broken manual rather than as a moved file.
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Making it yours
Settings
Super + I. Thirty-odd pages covering displays, sound, network, appearance,
power, printers, users, sharing, storage, updates and the rest. The search
box at the top searches the settings themselves rather than just page names,
so if you know what you want to change you can type it.
Appearance
Panama ships Tokyo Night Moon in a light and a dark variant, with eight accent colours. Changing either repaints the shell, the terminal, GTK applications, the lock screen and the system monitor at once.
The wallpaper is per-monitor if you want it to be.
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.