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rofi-calc shows its result in rofi's message widget, not a list entry, so a tab-reachable calc mode renders it while a calc folded into combi-modi does not (combi stays the active mode and drops the sub-mode's message). List calc in modi and drop the dedicated key.
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spec: hyprland-desktop
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blocked-by: 0021-desktop-group-and-hyprland-session
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## What to build
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A search-everything launcher, so one keybound tool handles launching and utility menus.
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Add a rofi (Wayland fork) module to the desktop group, enabled through the aggregator, combining application-run, binary-run, and window-switch into one prompt, plus math-evaluation and emoji modes.
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Bind it on `Super+R`.
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Structure it so it is reusable as the dmenu-style frontend for later utility menus (clipboard history, power menu), and provide a power menu that uses it.
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## Acceptance criteria
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- [x] A rofi module exists in the desktop group and is enabled by the aggregator.
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- [x] rofi combines application-run, binary-run, and window-switch modes, plus math evaluation and emoji.
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- [x] rofi opens on `Super+R`.
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- [x] rofi is usable as a dmenu-style frontend for utility menus, and a power menu is provided through it.
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- [x] neogaia builds green under `nix flake check`.
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## Implementation Notes
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- `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`.
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The module uses the plain `pkgs.rofi`, which is the Wayland-capable build.
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- The combined prompt is rofi's `combi` mode: `combi-modi = "drun,run,window"` merges the run/switch modes into one list, and `modi = "combi,calc,emoji"` adds calc (via the `rofi-calc` plugin) and emoji (via `rofi-emoji`) as the two further modes the same window tabs to.
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`Super+R` runs `rofi -show combi`.
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- calc is a tab-reachable mode, not a member of `combi-modi`.
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rofi-calc returns its result from the mode's message widget (`_get_message`), not as a list entry.
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Tabbing to the calc mode makes it active, so that widget shows the result; folding calc into `combi-modi` keeps `combi` the active mode, whose message does not carry a sub-mode's result, which is why the result was invisible in the merged list.
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The Stylix rofi theme styles the `message`/`textbox` widgets and does not hide them, so the result renders without any local theme override.
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- 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.
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- 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`.
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This keeps each command next to its binding and referenced by store path, so a rename cannot silently break the bind.
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- The power menu is bound to `Super+Shift+X`, chosen by the operator.
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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.
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- 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.
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