diff --git a/.claude/tasks/0024-rofi-launcher.md b/.claude/tasks/0024-rofi-launcher.md
index fe3ceff..3189b8d 100644
--- a/.claude/tasks/0024-rofi-launcher.md
+++ b/.claude/tasks/0024-rofi-launcher.md
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ Structure it so it is reusable as the dmenu-style frontend for later utility men
 
 - `rofi-wayland` no longer exists as a separate package: nixpkgs merged the Wayland fork into `pkgs.rofi` (now 2.0.0), and `rofi-emoji-wayland` into `rofi-emoji`.
   The module uses the plain `pkgs.rofi`, which is the Wayland-capable build.
-- The combined prompt is rofi's `combi` mode: `combi-modi = "drun,run,window"` merges the three run/switch modes into one list, and `modi = "combi,calc,emoji"` makes calc (via the `rofi-calc` plugin) and emoji (via `rofi-emoji`) the two further modes the same window tabs between.
+- The combined prompt is rofi's `combi` mode: `combi-modi = "drun,run,window,calc"` merges the run/switch modes and calc (via the `rofi-calc` plugin) into one list, so math results appear inline in the same view.
+  `modi = "combi,emoji"` leaves emoji (via `rofi-emoji`) as the one further mode the same window tabs to.
   `Super+R` runs `rofi -show combi`.
 - The dmenu-style reuse is the themed rofi itself, not a separate abstraction: any `rofi -dmenu` invocation reads the same config and Stylix theme, so the power menu — and later clipboard/utility menus — look uniform for free.
 - The launcher and power-menu keybinds live in this module rather than in `hyprland.nix`, contributed through `settings.bind`, which the module system concatenates with the compositor's own binds in the single `hyprland.conf`.
   This keeps each command next to its binding and referenced by store path, so a rename cannot silently break the bind.
-- The power menu is bound to `Super+Escape`, a key the parent spec's keybind table does not enumerate.
-  The table lists the launcher and lock but no power-menu key, so this is an added binding: a power menu needs a trigger to be reachable at all, and `Super+Escape` is otherwise unused.
-  Flagged for the operator to ratify — the alternative is to leave the menu launchable only from within rofi's run mode.
+- The power menu is bound to `Super+Shift+X`, chosen by the operator.
+  It pairs with lock on `Super+X` (a key the spec's table does list), so the two session actions sit together, and the parent spec's table has no power-menu key of its own.
 - No Waybar `window-rewrite` icon mapping was added: rofi renders as a Wayland layer-shell overlay, not a tiled window with a class on a workspace, so it never appears on the workspace indicator the convention governs.
diff --git a/modules/desktop/hyprland/hyprland.nix b/modules/desktop/hyprland/hyprland.nix
index 8908aad..c5ee51b 100644
--- a/modules/desktop/hyprland/hyprland.nix
+++ b/modules/desktop/hyprland/hyprland.nix
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ in
           animation = [
             "windows, 1, 3, ease"
             "fade, 1, 3, ease"
+            # Layer surfaces like the launcher appear quicker than windows.
+            "layersIn, 1, 2, ease"
+            "fadeLayersIn, 1, 2, ease"
             "workspaces, 1, 3, ease"
             "border, 1, 3, ease"
           ];
diff --git a/modules/desktop/rofi.nix b/modules/desktop/rofi.nix
index c532a7d..e15f44a 100644
--- a/modules/desktop/rofi.nix
+++ b/modules/desktop/rofi.nix
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ in
         enable = true;
         package = rofiPkg;
 
-        # drun, run and window merge into one prompt through combi.
-        # calc and emoji are the other two modes the same window tabs between.
+        # drun, run, window and calc share one prompt through combi.
+        # emoji is the separate mode the same window tabs to.
         extraConfig = {
-          modi = "combi,calc,emoji";
-          combi-modi = "drun,run,window";
+          modi = "combi,emoji";
+          combi-modi = "drun,run,window,calc";
           show-icons = true;
         };
       };
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ in
       # $mod is defined by the compositor config these binds share.
       wayland.windowManager.hyprland.settings.bind = [
         "$mod, R, exec, ${rofiPkg}/bin/rofi -show combi"
-        "$mod, Escape, exec, ${powerMenu}"
+        "$mod SHIFT, X, exec, ${powerMenu}"
       ];
     };
   };