Gabriel Brown
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The audit that followed "some things in the settings app don't work". Sixty-five settings reach the compositor and five of them were checked against it. The rest were covered only by tests that read source text, which is exactly where a dead setting hides: the write no-ops, nothing fails, nothing logs, and the row simply does nothing. The sweep drives each setting through SystemSettings.commitPreference -- the entry point a settings row uses -- flips it to a value it does not hold, reads it back from the live compositor, and puts it straight back before touching the next one. Settings Panama stores itself get the same treatment against the store, since a value that fails to persist is the same dead row from the outside. Result: 61 of 63 compositor settings verified against the running compositor, and 51 stored settings round-tripped. No failures. The breakage was confined to the Applications page, which is fixed. Proven able to fail before being trusted: with commitPreference stubbed to return true without applying, 61 settings are reported; with the store stubbed to return nothing, 51 are. A one-second settle window keeps a slow read from being reported as a dead write, which it briefly was. Also here: control-center-contract asserted the literal margin expression that made the panel hang 38 pixels below the bar, so the contract and the code agreed and the bug was invisible to both. And settings-page-registry-contract is deleted -- settings-nav-contract already checked those files and more. It would have caught the Storage page omission if I had run the suite instead of a hand-picked subset. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
Panama
Formerly Sunhat. A personal config for Fedora, with the intention of helping a user set up their Fedora system with one command.
git clone https://git.gbrown.org/gib/Panama.git ~/.local/share/Panama
~/.local/share/Panama/install
install runs everything in setup/scripts/ in order:
| Script | Does |
|---|---|
install-packages |
Repos (RPM Fusion, Terra, Hyprland COPR), then the four package lists in setup/packages/ |
link-dotfiles |
Symlinks config/dot/<name> → ~/.config/<name> |
change-settings |
Copies config/copy/ over /, applies gsettings, enables user services |
Existing configs are moved to config/old/ rather than overwritten.
Desktops
Panama configures two desktops that coexist. Both sessions stay available in GDM, so you can switch back and forth while you settle in.
GNOME
The original setup: Forge for tiling, Dash-to-Dock, Openbar, Vitals,
AppIndicator support. Configured through config/dot/forge/ and gsettings.
Hyprland
A from-scratch replacement built to reproduce the GNOME setup closely enough that muscle memory transfers — same keybinds, same panel contents, same dock, same Tokyo Night Moon palette.
| Piece | What it is |
|---|---|
config/dot/hypr/ |
Compositor config. Lua, not hyprlang — see its README |
config/dot/quickshell/ |
The shell: bar, dock, Continuum overview, Settings, Screen Intelligence, focus sessions, quick settings, notifications, screenshot UI |
config/dot/vicinae/ |
Raycast-style launcher, themed |
config/dot/uwsm/ |
Session environment (see the uwsm caveat in the hypr README) |
config/dot/wofi/ |
Fallback launcher, in case the shell fails to start |
config/dot/xdg-desktop-portal/ |
Portal backend routing |
Start here: config/dot/hypr/README.md — it
covers the Lua migration, the uwsm environment gotcha, the HDR decision, the
full keymap, and troubleshooting.
Log in as "Hyprland (uwsm-managed)", not plain "Hyprland".
Layout
bin/ Small user-facing commands on PATH
config/
bash/ .bashrc, aliases, env (env is gitignored)
copy/ Files copied verbatim over / (needs sudo)
dot/ Symlinked into ~/.config
old/ Backups of whatever was replaced (gitignored)
setup/
packages/ One package per line
scripts/ Run in order by ./install