Gabriel Brown
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Two more applications that keep their own palette and so never followed the desktop. btop was on "Default" and had never been themed at all; tmux had Tokyo Night Moon hardcoded across seventeen lines, which meant a dark status bar sitting under a light terminal in light mode. Both themes are authored rather than borrowed. btop ships a "tokyo-night" theme, but it is the Night variant (#1a1b26) where the rest of this desktop is Moon (#222436), and two Tokyo Nights side by side read as a mistake; it ships no Tokyo Night light theme at all. Colours come from kitty's theme files so a terminal and what runs inside it cannot disagree. tmux follows kitty's shape: the colours move to themes/, tmux.conf sources a generated current-theme.conf, and running servers are re-sourced so an open session changes immediately rather than at next launch. btop is different -- it OWNS btop.conf and rewrites it on exit, so only the color_theme line is edited in place and the file is not symlinked into the repository. btop reads its theme once at startup, so a running instance keeps the old colours; forcing a restart would kill a process the user is watching. The tmux light theme took two passes. Mapping the palette role-for-role put the standard Day accents on a mid-grey panel at 2.74:1 and 2.94:1 -- under the 3:1 floor, on a bar you read at a glance. It now uses Day's darker accent variants on a lighter panel: 4.42:1 and 4.17:1, and 5.01:1 / 4.73:1 for the light text inside the inverted blocks. The helper also now reports every target rather than only kitty. Saying "kitty: applied" while silently skipping three other applications is how a half-applied theme goes unnoticed. Not changed: bat is configured with --theme ansi, which follows the terminal's own palette, so it already tracks kitty with nothing to do. 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