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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Windows and workspaces
How the split is chosen
A new window splits the space of the window that had focus. Whether it splits beside or below depends on which way that space is longer, which usually matches what you were about to do anyway.
When it does not, Super + Ctrl + G flips the split of the focused window,
and Super + Ctrl + Z and Super + Ctrl + V decide the direction the next
window will take before you open it.
Resizing
Super + Shift plus Y, O, B, M adjusts width; I, U, N and
comma adjust height. These are inverted from what their letters suggest, on
purpose, and the reason is written in config/dot/hypr/keybinds.lua next to
the binds.
For anything finer, hold Super and drag with the right mouse button.
Fullscreen and floating
Super + U makes the focused window fullscreen. Super + Ctrl + C lifts it
out of the layout to float, and Super + Ctrl + Shift + C pins it so it
follows you between workspaces. A floating window can be moved by holding
Super and dragging with the left button.
Workspaces
Ten of them, on Alt + 1 through Alt + 0. Alt + H and Alt + L step
between neighbours, and Alt + Shift plus a number sends the current window
somewhere without following it.
On a machine with more than one display, workspaces belong to whichever screen has focus. If you would rather pin workspaces one through ten to your main display and give the second screen its own, that is a switch on the Desktop settings page.
Projects
A project is the set of windows you open together: which applications, which workspace each was on, and for a terminal, which directory it was in.
Arrange things the way you want them, then run Save Layout as Project from the launcher. Open Project lays it out again on free workspaces, so it never lands on top of what you are already doing. An application that refuses to open twice is moved into place rather than launched again.