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
How the split is chosen
A new window splits the space of the window that had focus. Whether it splits beside or below depends on which way that space is longer, which usually matches what you were about to do anyway.
When it does not, Super + Ctrl + G flips the split of the focused window,
and Super + Ctrl + Z and Super + Ctrl + V decide the direction the next
window will take before you open it.
Resizing
Super + Shift plus Y, O, B, M adjusts width; I, U, N and
comma adjust height. These are inverted from what their letters suggest, on
purpose, and the reason is written in config/dot/hypr/keybinds.lua next to
the binds.
For anything finer, hold Super and drag with the right mouse button.
Fullscreen and floating
Super + U makes the focused window fullscreen. Super + Ctrl + C lifts it
out of the layout to float, and Super + Ctrl + Shift + C pins it so it
follows you between workspaces. A floating window can be moved by holding
Super and dragging with the left button.
Workspaces
Ten of them, on Alt + 1 through Alt + 0. Alt + H and Alt + L step
between neighbours, and Alt + Shift plus a number sends the current window
somewhere without following it.
On a machine with more than one display, workspaces belong to whichever screen has focus. If you would rather pin workspaces one through ten to your main display and give the second screen its own, that is a switch on the Displays settings page.
How windows share the space — the layout, the master area, gaps and window edges — is Shell › Tiling. The workspace switches themselves, and the projects below, are Shell › Workspaces.
Projects
A project is the set of windows you open together: which applications, which workspace each was on, and for a terminal, which directory it was in.
Arrange things the way you want them, then run Save Layout as Project from the launcher. Open Project lays it out again on free workspaces, so it never lands on top of what you are already doing. An application that refuses to open twice is moved into place rather than launched again.