Gabriel Brown
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The scheme switch already reached everything that reads org.freedesktop.appearance -- GTK4, Qt6, Chromium, Electron -- because ColorScheme.qml writes the gsettings key those all watch. Applications carrying their own palettes did not follow, so choosing light mode left the two windows actually used all day, kitty and neovim, still dark. kitty: the 32 colours move out of kitty.conf into themes/, and kitty.conf ends with `include current-theme.conf`. The generated file is machine state rather than configuration, so it is gitignored and link-dotfiles seeds it on install -- otherwise a fresh checkout starts by complaining about a missing include. Running terminals are re-coloured in place over their control sockets; a restart is not needed. neovim: reads settings.json directly, since it neither watches the portal nor keeps a socket open. Tokyo Night ships Day in the same family as Moon, so light mode keeps the editor's identity instead of turning it into a different-looking application. The existing readability overrides were written against Moon and are now dark-only -- applied to Day they would have put light grey on a light background, the same problem they exist to fix, inverted. Light mode gets one override of its own: tokyonight's shipped comment colour measures 2.54:1 against Day's background, under the 3:1 floor for secondary text, so it is replaced with 3.25:1 -- readable, still dimmer than Normal's 4.52:1. An editor already open when the scheme flips re-applies on FocusGained, which is cheap and fires exactly when the mismatch would be noticed. Verified both directions: kitty re-coloured 4 live terminals, and neovim starts as tokyonight-day with background=light and tokyonight-moon with background=dark. 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, Panama 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