Gabriel Brown
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gapsIn and gapsOut were the only two compositor settings the write sweep had never verified: Hyprland answers for them in CSS shorthand, "5 5 5 5", and the sweep had no way to compare that. The preference behind each is a single int that Hyprland expands to four sides, so a uniform reading compares exactly. A non-uniform one is not something the preference can express, and is skipped rather than collapsed to a number it never wrote. 63 of 63 verified live now, none skipped. Wallpaper thumbnails are cached. The report that five of them sat at "Loading…" was a screenshot taken 1.1 seconds after the page opened -- decoding one of these at tile size takes between 1.2 and 2.6 seconds and about ten start at once, which the code already said. Measuring it did turn up something real though: without a cache, scrolling back up pays that decode again for every tile. The tradeoff is a wallpaper replaced in place showing a stale thumbnail until restart, which is worth it for a directory of files that are added rather than edited. A chord already in use is now named rather than taken: "Super+Q is already Terminal". Two actions on one chord means whichever Hyprland reads last wins, which is not a thing to find out later by pressing it. Rebinding a shortcut to the chord it already holds is correctly not a conflict. Also: Open Appearance lands on the Windows tab now that the page has tabs, Storage points at reclaimable container space, and a dock row shows its desktop id only when two pinned applications share a name -- it is developer text, and repeating it under fifteen recognisable names made the list harder to scan. Written down because it cost the shell: QML has no default parameter values, and `function openSettings(page: string, section: string = "")` fails the entire configuration rather than the one function -- so the bar and dock went with it, and 43 contracts failed at once pointing at the same line. qmllint --bare passes that, which is why the usual check before touching the running shell did not catch it. openSettingsSection exists as a separate function for that reason. 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