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Gabriel Brown 6ae8265730 Say what a keybind is for, rather than guessing from its name
The Shortcuts page grouped shortcuts by matching substrings in their
descriptions, which put "Close window" and "Close the notification
list" in the same group and left anything phrased unusually in
whichever bucket matched first. The cheatsheet that comes next would
have inherited the same guesswork.

keybinds.lua says it outright now. Its sections already were the
categories, so a section sets one and the binds below inherit it: one
line per section instead of one per bind, and a new bind lands in the
category of the section somebody wrote it in without having to
remember anything.

Hyprland reports a Lua bind's dispatcher as __lua with a bytecode
offset, so nothing can be attached to a bind that survives into
`hyprctl binds`. The config writes a manifest at load instead, keyed
by the chord actually bound so the shell can join on what it sees.
Writing never raises: a read-only state directory costs the grouping,
never the keymap, and the shell keeps the old derivation as its
fallback so a machine that has not reloaded its compositor still works.

The one failure mode is a section that forgets to set a category and
silently inherits the one above. That is not hypothetical -- it
happened while writing this, because the dictation section sits in the
middle of the media binds and its category leaked onto the volume,
media and brightness keys below it. The contract walks the file for
sections with binds and no category, and spot-checks the boundaries
where inheritance is doing the work.
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pragma Singleton
// The keymap, read from the compositor rather than restated.
//
// The Shortcuts page used to hold a hand-typed array of nineteen entries while
// keybinds.lua produced a hundred and thirteen. It could not show the other
// ninety-four, and it drifted the moment a bind was edited. `hyprctl binds -j`
// is the only description of the keymap that cannot be wrong, so this reads
// that and every bind carries its own human label (see the `description`
// argument in hypr/keybinds.lua).
//
// Refreshed on demand, not polled: binds only change when the config is
// reloaded, and nothing in this shell should wake up to re-read something that
// has not moved.
import Quickshell
import Quickshell.Io
import QtQuick
import qs.config
Singleton {
id: root
// [{ chord, description, group, mouse, repeating, locked }], ordered as
// Hyprland reports them, which follows the order they appear in the config.
property var binds: []
property bool loaded: false
property string lastError: ""
readonly property bool busy: query.running
// Hyprland's modmask bits. SUPER is the Panama modifier.
readonly property var modifierBits: [
{ bit: 64, name: "Super" },
{ bit: 4, name: "Ctrl" },
{ bit: 8, name: "Alt" },
{ bit: 1, name: "Shift" }
]
// Keysyms whose raw names would be noise in a shortcuts list.
readonly property var keyNames: ({
"mouse_up": "Scroll up",
"mouse_down": "Scroll down",
"mouse:272": "Left click",
"mouse:273": "Right click",
"mouse:274": "Middle click",
"bracketleft": "[",
"bracketright": "]",
"grave": "`",
"Print": "Print Screen",
"left": "←",
"right": "→",
"up": "↑",
"down": "↓"
})
Process {
id: query
command: ["hyprctl", "-j", "binds"]
stdout: StdioCollector {
onStreamFinished: root.parse(this.text)
}
onExited: (exitCode, exitStatus) => {
if (exitCode !== 0)
root.lastError = "Could not read the keymap from Hyprland.";
}
}
// ── Rebinding ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Overrides map a SHIPPED chord to a replacement. hypr/keybinds.lua reads
// them and substitutes only the chord -- the action is always the Lua value
// written in that file -- so an override can move a shortcut but can never
// make one do something else.
//
// Applying needs `hyprctl reload` rather than a live `hl.bind`: Hyprland
// reports Lua-defined binds with dispatcher "__lua" and a bytecode offset,
// so the action cannot be reconstructed from the outside to re-bind it.
// Reload re-runs the config, which re-reads the settings file.
readonly property var overrides: {
const stored = DesktopPreferences.get("keybindOverrides");
return (stored && typeof stored === "object") ? stored : ({});
}
property bool reloading: false
// The chord a bind ships with, given the chord it currently answers to.
// Displayed binds come from the compositor and so already reflect any
// override; the override map is what tells us where they started.
function shippedChordFor(currentChord: string): string {
for (const shipped in root.overrides) {
if (root.overrides[shipped] === currentChord)
return shipped;
}
return currentChord;
}
function isOverridden(currentChord: string): bool {
return root.shippedChordFor(currentChord) !== currentChord;
}
// Refuses a chord already answering to something else, so rebinding cannot
// quietly shadow an existing shortcut.
function conflictFor(chord: string, exceptCurrent: string): string {
for (const bind of root.binds) {
if (bind.luaChord === chord && bind.luaChord !== exceptCurrent)
return bind.description;
}
return "";
}
// A moved shortcut vacates its shipped chord, so another override may use
// it legitimately. Refuse to reset the first shortcut until that occupant
// moves away; otherwise Hyprland would receive two binds on one chord.
function overrideOccupantFor(chord: string, exceptShipped: string): string {
for (const shipped in root.overrides) {
if (shipped !== exceptShipped && root.overrides[shipped] === chord)
return shipped;
}
return "";
}
function rebind(currentChord: string, newChord: string): bool {
if (newChord === "" || newChord === currentChord)
return false;
const conflict = root.conflictFor(newChord, currentChord);
if (conflict !== "") {
root.lastError = `${newChord} is already ${conflict}.`;
return false;
}
const shipped = root.shippedChordFor(currentChord);
const next = Object.assign({}, root.overrides);
if (newChord === shipped)
delete next[shipped];
else
next[shipped] = newChord;
if (!DesktopPreferences.set("keybindOverrides", next)) {
root.lastError = "That shortcut could not be saved.";
return false;
}
root.applyReload();
return true;
}
function resetBind(currentChord: string): bool {
const shipped = root.shippedChordFor(currentChord);
if (shipped === currentChord)
return true;
const occupant = root.overrideOccupantFor(shipped, shipped);
if (occupant !== "") {
root.lastError = `${shipped} is used by another rebound shortcut. Reset that shortcut first.`;
return false;
}
const next = Object.assign({}, root.overrides);
delete next[shipped];
if (!DesktopPreferences.set("keybindOverrides", next)) {
root.lastError = "That shortcut could not be reset.";
return false;
}
root.applyReload();
return true;
}
function resetAll(): void {
if (Object.keys(root.overrides).length === 0)
return;
DesktopPreferences.set("keybindOverrides", ({}));
root.applyReload();
}
Process {
id: reloadRun
command: ["hyprctl", "reload"]
onExited: (exitCode, exitStatus) => {
root.reloading = false;
if (exitCode !== 0) {
root.lastError = "The compositor did not reload.";
return;
}
root.lastError = "";
// The settings file is written on a timer, so re-read the keymap
// once the reload has had a moment to pick it up.
settle.restart();
}
}
Timer {
id: settle
interval: 350
onTriggered: root.refresh()
}
function applyReload(): void {
if (reloadRun.running)
return;
root.reloading = true;
// Give DesktopPreferences' coalescing write a moment to land first.
reloadDelay.restart();
}
Timer {
id: reloadDelay
interval: 120
onTriggered: reloadRun.running = true
}
Component.onCompleted: root.refresh()
function refresh(): void {
if (query.running)
return;
root.lastError = "";
query.running = true;
}
function parse(text: string): void {
try {
const raw = JSON.parse(text);
const out = [];
for (const bind of raw) {
const description = String(bind.description ?? "").trim();
// A bind with no description cannot be presented usefully --
// the dispatcher is "__lua" and the argument is a bytecode
// offset. Showing the chord alone would be worse than omitting
// it, and tests/quickshell/keybinds-contract fails the build
// if any exist, so this should never be reached in practice.
if (description === "")
continue;
out.push({
chord: root.formatChord(bind),
// The same chord in the form hypr/keybinds.lua writes, which
// is what an override is keyed by. The display form
// prettifies modifiers and arrow keys and so cannot be used
// for that.
luaChord: root.luaChord(bind),
description: description,
group: root.groupFor(description, bind),
mouse: bind.mouse === true,
repeating: bind.repeat === true,
locked: bind.locked === true
});
}
root.binds = out;
root.loaded = true;
root.lastError = "";
} catch (error) {
root.lastError = "The keymap could not be read.";
}
}
// "SUPER + SHIFT + K" -- uppercase modifiers in the order keybinds.lua
// writes them, then the raw keysym rather than its display name.
function luaChord(bind: var): string {
const parts = [];
for (const modifier of root.modifierBits) {
if ((bind.modmask & modifier.bit) !== 0)
parts.push(modifier.name.toUpperCase());
}
parts.push(String(bind.key ?? ""));
return parts.join(" + ");
}
function formatChord(bind: var): string {
const parts = [];
for (const modifier of root.modifierBits) {
if ((bind.modmask & modifier.bit) !== 0)
parts.push(modifier.name);
}
const key = String(bind.key ?? "");
parts.push(root.keyNames[key] ?? (key.length === 1 ? key.toUpperCase() : key));
return parts.join(" + ");
}
// Grouping is by what the shortcut does, taken from its own description,
// so adding a bind puts it in the right section without touching this file.
// Which section a bind belongs to.
//
// "Windows" used to catch focus, movement, splitting, resizing and window
// state alike, which put 43 of the 93 binds under one heading -- a section
// that long is a list, not a grouping. The window verbs are separated here
// by what you are actually trying to do.
//
// Order matters: "Next window splits down" is about splitting rather than
// focus, and "Focus session" is a Panama feature rather than window focus,
// so both are settled before the general checks below them.
// What hypr/keybinds.lua says this bind is for, when it has said anything.
// Written at config load to a manifest keyed by the chord actually bound,
// because Hyprland reports a Lua bind's dispatcher as `__lua` with a
// bytecode offset and nothing can be attached to a bind that survives into
// `hyprctl binds`.
property var categoryManifest: ({})
FileView {
path: (Quickshell.env("XDG_STATE_HOME") || `${Quickshell.env("HOME")}/.local/state`)
+ "/panama/keybind-categories.json"
printErrors: false
watchChanges: true
onFileChanged: this.reload()
onLoaded: {
try {
const parsed = JSON.parse(this.text());
root.categoryManifest = (parsed && typeof parsed === "object") ? parsed : ({});
} catch (error) {
root.categoryManifest = ({});
}
}
// No manifest is the normal state on a machine whose compositor config
// has not been reloaded since this was added. The substring derivation
// below still produces groups, so the keymap page and the cheatsheet
// work; they are just grouped by guesswork until the next reload.
onLoadFailed: root.categoryManifest = ({})
}
function groupFor(description: string, bind: var): string {
// The authored category wins. Keyed by the raw chord, which is what
// the manifest records and what Hyprland reports.
const authored = root.categoryManifest[root.luaChord(bind)];
if (typeof authored === "string" && authored !== "")
return authored;
const text = description.toLowerCase();
if (bind.key && String(bind.key).indexOf("XF86") === 0)
return "Media & hardware keys";
// Quiet mode and Caffeine bound to a workspace, not window focus.
if (text.indexOf("focus session") >= 0)
return "Applications & shell";
if (text.indexOf("workspace") >= 0)
return "Workspaces";
if (text.indexOf("wider") >= 0 || text.indexOf("narrower") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("taller") >= 0 || text.indexOf("shorter") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("shrink") >= 0 || text.indexOf("expand") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("grow") >= 0 || text.indexOf("resize") >= 0)
return "Size";
if (text.indexOf("split") >= 0 || text.indexOf("swap") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("move window") >= 0)
return "Move & split";
if (text.indexOf("close") >= 0 || text.indexOf("fullscreen") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("float") >= 0 || text.indexOf("pin ") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("scratchpad") >= 0 || text.indexOf("minimize") >= 0)
return "Window state";
if (text.indexOf("focus") >= 0 || text.indexOf("next window") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("previous window") >= 0 || text.indexOf("last window") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("window switch") >= 0)
return "Focus";
if (text.indexOf("volume") >= 0 || text.indexOf("mute") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("track") >= 0 || text.indexOf("play") >= 0
|| text.indexOf("brightness") >= 0)
return "Media & hardware keys";
return "Applications & shell";
}
// Section order for the page. Anything a future bind invents lands at the
// end rather than being dropped.
// The authored categories come first, in the order somebody learning this
// desktop would want them: what you do to a window, then to a workspace,
// then how you start things, then the shell's own surfaces. The names
// after them are the ones the substring derivation produces, kept so a
// machine whose compositor has not reloaded since the manifest was added
// still sorts into a sensible order rather than alphabetically.
readonly property var groupOrder: ["Windows", "Workspaces", "Applications", "Shell",
"Session", "Media & hardware", "Other",
"Focus", "Move & split", "Size", "Window state",
"Applications & shell", "Media & hardware keys"]
// The action already bound to a chord, or "" if it is free. Compared on the
// form keybinds.lua writes rather than the prettified display form, because
// that is what a rebind is keyed by -- "SUPER + Q" and "Super+Q" are the
// same binding and must not read as two.
function boundTo(luaChord: string, exceptLuaChord: string): string {
const wanted = String(luaChord).replace(/\s+/g, "").toLowerCase();
const skip = String(exceptLuaChord).replace(/\s+/g, "").toLowerCase();
for (const bind of root.binds) {
const candidate = String(bind.luaChord).replace(/\s+/g, "").toLowerCase();
if (candidate === wanted && candidate !== skip)
return String(bind.description);
}
return "";
}
function grouped(): var {
const buckets = {};
for (const bind of root.binds) {
buckets[bind.group] = buckets[bind.group] ?? [];
buckets[bind.group].push(bind);
}
const names = Object.keys(buckets).sort((a, b) => {
const ia = root.groupOrder.indexOf(a);
const ib = root.groupOrder.indexOf(b);
return (ia < 0 ? 999 : ia) - (ib < 0 ? 999 : ib);
});
return names.map(name => ({ name: name, binds: buckets[name] }));
}
}