home.sessionVariables (XCURSOR_THEME/XCURSOR_SIZE from home.pointerCursor)
land in hm-session-vars.sh, which only a login shell sources. UWSM starts
the graphical session without it, so Hyprland never saw the theme and drew
its built-in cursor instead of the configured Bibata-Modern-Ice.
Declare the cursor through Hyprland's own env directive, read at compositor
startup regardless of the shell profile, sourced from config.stylix.cursor
so the theme and size stay defined in one place.
Route the volume and brightness keys through swayosd-client, which raises
a transient on-screen popup that auto-hides a moment after the last press,
so the level is visible while adjusting without a permanent widget. A new
osd module runs the server for the graphical session and makes the
backlight node group-writable so it dims without root.
Supersedes the plain brightnessctl binds, whose control swayosd bundles.
Bind XF86MonBrightnessUp/Down to brightnessctl in the repeat-while-held
block, mirroring the volume keys. A new brightness module installs
brightnessctl's udev rule and adds the user to the video group so the
backlight can be dimmed without root.
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.
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.
