Gabriel Brown
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Audited bar, dock, quick settings, date menu and Settings for three things: a setting reachable in one UI but not another, a setting that exists but is unreachable anywhere, and UI that states something false. Night Light was fully exposed in Quick Settings and had no control anywhere in Settings. It now has a card on Displays, where GNOME also puts it, with on/off, schedule, times and temperature. Adding those controls would have shipped the exact defect this audit exists to find. NightLight declared enabled, temperature and automatic as bindings on the store, but toggle() assigns to them, and an assignment destroys a QML binding permanently -- so the service wrote to the store and never read from it again. The Settings controls would have written values the service ignored, while Quick Settings kept working. It now follows the store. Every other service was swept for the same pattern; this was the only one. The night light schedule was two hardcoded literals, so the hours could not be changed. They are schema keys now, with a row that renders 17.5 as "5:30 PM" and honours the 24-hour preference rather than showing a decimal nobody reads as a time. keyboardLayout was in the schema and read by input.lua but had no control anywhere: configurable in principle, unreachable in practice. It is surfaced on Input & Shortcuts as read-only, with the reason, because it needs a compositor reload and a control implying instant apply would be a smaller lie but still a lie. Caffeine was a Quick Settings toggle mentioned only in a subtitle in Settings. It has a real control now. 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