Gabriel Brown
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Desktop & Dock becomes Shell — Bar, Dock, Control Center, Tiling, Workspaces — the home for everything Quickshell draws. The settings- management cluster moves to System as Sync & Backup, Appearance's Shell tab dissolves, and 24-hour time finally lives on Date & Time, which always owned it. The bar gets what it never had: a way to survive the wallpaper. A second neutral text family (follow theme, or forced light or dark), a one-layer shadow under every glyph, and a gradient scrim for wallpapers nothing else survives — all off by default, pixel-identical until asked. Widgets earn toggles (weather, media, clipboard, calendar countdown), the vitals cluster stops leaving a dead pill behind, and Control Center's sections learn to step aside. The dock graduates from MVP: a context menu with window rows, pin, unpin, quit and new-window; scroll an icon to cycle its windows; drag to reorder on the dock itself; hover previews with one-shot captures; and "Add App to Dock" in the launcher. Three real bugs died en route — menus that slid away with the autohide, a readonly-property crash on every menu open, and a drag that drifted half a slot per icon on side docks. The pinned-apps editor in Settings becomes a drag strip. 166 contracts; the full suite is green except two live display and switcher tests that cannot run behind a locked session — re-verified on unlock. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ms2FbjQy31TVf3CEvQhGM8
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# Windows and workspaces
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## How the split is chosen
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A new window splits the space of the window that had focus. Whether it splits
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beside or below depends on which way that space is longer, which usually
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matches what you were about to do anyway.
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When it does not, `Super + Ctrl + G` flips the split of the focused window,
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and `Super + Ctrl + Z` and `Super + Ctrl + V` decide the direction the *next*
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window will take before you open it.
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## Resizing
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`Super + Shift` plus `Y`, `O`, `B`, `M` adjusts width; `I`, `U`, `N` and
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comma adjust height. These are inverted from what their letters suggest, on
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purpose, and the reason is written in `config/dot/hypr/keybinds.lua` next to
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the binds.
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For anything finer, hold `Super` and drag with the right mouse button.
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## Fullscreen and floating
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`Super + U` makes the focused window fullscreen. `Super + Ctrl + C` lifts it
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out of the layout to float, and `Super + Ctrl + Shift + C` pins it so it
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follows you between workspaces. A floating window can be moved by holding
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`Super` and dragging with the left button.
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## Workspaces
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Ten of them, on `Alt + 1` through `Alt + 0`. `Alt + H` and `Alt + L` step
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between neighbours, and `Alt + Shift` plus a number sends the current window
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somewhere without following it.
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On a machine with more than one display, workspaces belong to whichever
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screen has focus. If you would rather pin workspaces one through ten to your
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main display and give the second screen its own, that is a switch on the
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Displays settings page.
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How windows share the space — the layout, the master area, gaps and window
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edges — is Shell › Tiling. The workspace switches themselves, and the projects
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below, are Shell › Workspaces.
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## Projects
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A project is the set of windows you open together: which applications, which
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workspace each was on, and for a terminal, which directory it was in.
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Arrange things the way you want them, then run **Save Layout as Project**
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from the launcher. **Open Project** lays it out again on free workspaces, so
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it never lands on top of what you are already doing. An application that
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refuses to open twice is moved into place rather than launched again.
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