Gabriel Brown
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Working towards parity with GNOME Settings, which splits pointing devices into their own panel. Panama had pointer speed and focus-follows buried under a page called "Input & Shortcuts", and had nothing at all for scroll direction, acceleration profile, scroll speed, left-handed buttons, or any touchpad setting -- all of which could only be changed by editing hypr/input.lua by hand, which is the thing this app exists to stop. Every new mapping was read back off the running compositor rather than assumed, and two were not what they look like: touchpad drag lock is an int with three states, not a switch, and scroll factors are floats even at their default of exactly 1. Getting either wrong makes every write to that setting look rejected. The shape contract now covers 35 mapped options, up from 23. The touchpad card renders only when a touchpad is attached, which is what InputDevices is for. On a desktop it would be worse than useless: every switch on it would appear to work, because the preference is stored and Hyprland accepts an option for a device class it has no member of, so the settings would silently affect nothing. Keyboard layout was read-only text, justified by a note saying changes needed a compositor reload. That is not true in 0.56.2 -- setting input:kb_variant through hl.config re-keymaps attached keyboards immediately, verified by watching active_keymap on a real keyboard change to "English (US, intl., with dead keys)" and back. So layout, variant, and options are now real controls, joined by a TextEntryRow that commits on Enter or focus loss rather than per keystroke, since half a layout name is a valid string meaning something else. Rejected input is shown as rejected rather than sanitised: these strings are serialised into an hl.config payload, where stripping an unexpected character would turn a typo into a different working setting. Verified each new pointer option applies and reverts against the live compositor. Schema, search, commit/reset, and system contracts pass. 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