Gabriel Brown
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Nothing showed what was using the drive, and removable media was handled by a tray helper with no surface in Settings at all. One scroll rather than tabs: space above, the device below. Every other settings page is a scrolling card stack, and a tab would not be deep-linkable from the launcher command or from search. Three things the page has to get right, each now pinned by a contract, because each is a way it could quietly lie. / and /home are one btrfs filesystem sharing one pool of free space, and a page that copies df shows double the free space that exists. zram is a block device and is not storage; counting it as a drive overstates this machine by 8 GB. Unmount and eject refuse anything not on a removable drive, because the UI is what asks and a UI can be wrong. The cheap read -- layout, usage, health -- runs when the page opens, at around 90ms. Measuring what is filling the drive means walking every file, so it happens on request and says so rather than showing an empty list that reads as "nothing here". Partitioning and formatting are deliberately absent. A settings pane is the wrong place to put erasing a disk two clicks deep; the page opens GNOME Disks for that. Adding the page found a fourth hard-coded page list in ShellState. A page missing from it does not error -- openSettings() falls back to "home", so the launcher opens the wrong page and logs nothing. A registry contract now holds the three lists together. 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