Add a clipboard module to the desktop group, enabled through the
aggregator. Home-manager's services.cliphist runs the text and image
watchers as systemd user services bound to the graphical-session
target, and a rofi-dmenu picker recalls history on Super+Shift+V.
Add a session-lock screen and idle management to the Hyprland-native
subdirectory, enabled through the desktop aggregator.
hyprlock draws through the compositor session-lock protocol, themed by
Stylix, with a centered field and clock. Super+X locks directly through a
guarded launch so the key works without the idle daemon.
hypridle locks on idle and powers the displays off, with tunable timeouts,
and locks before every suspend. Lid-close routes through logind to suspend,
which the pre-sleep lock covers, so the lid lands at a locked screen.
Add a mako notification daemon module to the desktop group, enabled by
the aggregator. Toasts auto-dismiss into history after five seconds, a
do-not-disturb mode ([mode=dnd] invisible=true) suppresses display while
still recording to history, and Super+N recalls the last notification
via makoctl restore. Colors and the popup font come from Stylix's mako
target. The bar-side do-not-disturb toggle and media controls already
live in waybar.nix, so this task adds only the daemon.
Add a rofi module to the desktop group, enabled by the aggregator.
It runs the drun application launcher, bound on Super+R. A session menu
built on the same themed rofi is bound on Super+Shift+X, and every
rofi -dmenu call inherits the Stylix theme, so later utility menus
reuse it for free.
Also give layer surfaces their own fade-in (layersIn and fadeLayersIn)
a touch quicker than the window animation, so the launcher fades in
briskly rather than snapping into place.
Add a Waybar module to the desktop group, enabled through the aggregator,
showing workspaces with per-application icons plus a clock, MPRIS media
controls, audio, network, battery, and a do-not-disturb toggle.
The do-not-disturb widget drives mako's dnd mode and degrades gracefully
until the notifications module lands. Module glyphs are Nerd Font codepoints
decoded through JSON, backed by a system symbols font.
Add a PipeWire audio server so the bar's volume widget has a running sink to
read and drive.
Narrow the terminal tools excluded from Stylix to nvim alone. nvim keeps
its dedicated gbprod/nord.nvim colorscheme, which is richer than the
base16 mapping Stylix would apply.
tmux and fish are now Stylix-managed. Drop the hand-written Nord colours
from the tmux status bar so Stylix themes the status and pane styles,
keeping the minimal layout (session name plus window list) reapplied
after Stylix so it still wins.
Add Stylix as a flake input and a desktop theming module that resolves a
single Nord base16 scheme across the graphical surface: GTK, Qt, cursor,
and the system monospace font, plus a static Nord wallpaper drawn as a
Polar Night gradient.
Scope the theming to the graphical layer alone. The Stylix targets for
fish (at both system and home-manager level), tmux, and nixvim stay off
so the terminal tools keep their hand-written themes.
Flip between the dwindle and master layouts with one bind. Neither a
dispatcher nor a keyword toggles the layout on its own, so a small pinned
script reads general:layout and sets the other through hyprctl keyword.
Ghostty's GTK4 window construction made every launch sluggish on neogaia's
integrated graphics (~440 ms to map a window), which a head-to-head
comparison against Alacritty confirmed. Alacritty's lightweight OpenGL
renderer opens fast on the iGPU, so it becomes the terminal on Super+Return.
The choice stays reversible per host, so a capable host such as zeus could
adopt Ghostty later.
Two issues surfaced on the live neogaia session. Hyprland rejected two names
at load: the split toggle is a dwindle layout message reached through
layoutmsg, not a top-level dispatcher, and dwindle:pseudotile no longer exists
in this version. Bind Super+T via layoutmsg and drop the pseudotile option.
Ghostty also cold-started GTK on every launch. Configure it through
home-manager with gtk-single-instance so windows after the first open in the
existing process. Record the dispatcher/option version-drift trap in CLAUDE.md.
Introduce the modules/desktop/ group behind a single modules.desktop.enable
aggregator that hand-lists and turns on each piece at default priority, so a
host enables the whole desktop with one flag yet can override any single piece.
The Hyprland compositor lives in a subdirectory of the group, sourced from
nixpkgs with the program integration owning the session, portals, and polkit
and home-manager writing the config against that one package. greetd with the
tuigreet greeter provides a mouse-free text login that launches the session
through uwsm, and Ghostty is the terminal on Super+Return.
Port the operator's KDE/i3 bindings expressed entirely in hjkl and letters,
tune input (US layout, Caps->Escape, snappy repeat, touchpad taps and natural
scroll, flat mouse accel), and set a subtle feel with blur left as a host knob.
Enable the desktop on neogaia.
