Frank's outline restyle: focus-ring red #e01b24 -> #ffb000 -> #ff8c00
(orange), thickness 2 -> 4 in base layout.kdl. The visible ring is
painted by noctalia.kdl, included LAST in config.kdl — its focus-ring
active/urgent colors moved to #ff8c00 too; tab-indicator, insert-hint,
and recent-window highlights deliberately stay red.
noctalia.kdl was hand-written live-only (Oct 14, no repo copy — the
override that silently beat every layout.kdl edit); first durable copy
lands in the zz-blankpad mirror.
The rich GUI-built layout (cat/clock/clock-utc/weather start, taskbar
center, capsule groups g1-g4 + control-cheat-sheet end, thickness 36,
font_scale 1.3, opacity 0.9) existed only in the working tree; it was
stashed at 16:46 during the trunk merge and the stash entry was later
destroyed. Recovered from dangling stash commit 7fe3ed8 via git fsck.
This commit is the durable copy the layout never had before.
Operator decision at review: 15 min is aggressive for config churn; hourly
keeps the stale-window acceptable (<=1 h) with a fifth of the wakeups.
Timer unit, tier law, and failure-table wording aligned.
The checkout IS the deployment and symlinks make live state (memories,
auto-learned skills, agent config, desktop settings) dirty tracked files
continuously; no commit law covered machine churn, so it accumulated
unpushed for weeks — one disk held the only copy of ~61 managed skills,
a settings fix stayed local-only, and dirty trees refused merges.
scripts/live-sync.sh (systemd user timer, ~15 min) commits ONLY the
allowlisted machine/desktop-live tiers with hooks armed, merges
origin/main, pushes, and reaps wt/* worktrees older than 7 days. Task
dirt outside the allowlist is never staged; conflicts abort and alert
via ntfy; branch guard refuses off main; never --no-verify, never force.
Black-box contract pinned by tests/live-sync.bats (9 tests, suite 36/36).
Refs #11
Mod+R now cycles 1/4 <-> 1/2 only, matching the quarter-based
preset-window-heights; verified live (840px quarter / 1696px half on the
3440px panel). Mod+F still maximizes a column.
- set-column-width / set-window-height nudges 10% -> 5% (Mod+-/= and
Mod+Shift+-/=).
- New preset-window-heights { 1/4, 1/2 } in layout.kdl; Mod+Ctrl+Shift+R
no longer falls back to the width-preset ladder.
- Mod+Ctrl+Left/Right (and H/L) retargeted swap-window-* ->
consume-or-expel-window-*, matching Mod+brackets; swap-window now unbound.
Validated with niri validate; live via hot-reload.
Live census 2026-10-14: every flameshot mode on this box captures via
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome → niri's single-output API (niri#4313) — full
AND screen hang ~15 s and error docked (verified: exit 124, no file).
Replace all six flameshot binds with niri-native equivalents:
all-monitors script (Print/Ctrl+Shift+1/Mod+Shift+S), screenshot-screen
(Alt+Print/Ctrl+Shift+2), interactive screenshot UI (Ctrl+Print/
Ctrl+Shift+3). Absolute script paths everywhere: niri's spawn-sh PATH
is system-only, ~/.local/bin absent — the bare screenshot-desk.sh and
desk.sh binds were silently dead. bats 27/27.
flameshot full dies docked: its portal path hits niri's
screenshot_all_outputs ensure!(outputs.len()==1) (upstream niri#4313,
niri 26.04), so every Print press on the home desk produces error
bubbles. niri's built-in screenshot UI selects only one output, so add
scripts/screenshot-desk.sh: per-monitor focus + screenshot-screen with
explicit --path, focus restored, one PNG per monitor in
~/Pictures/Screenshots. Bind Mod+Shift+S (Frank's call); noctalia
settings moves to Mod+Shift+O. Restore screenshot-path (was null, now
root-level as config.screenshot_path requires) for UI saves. Live-
verified docked: valid 1920x1080 PNGs for eDP-1 + DP-2, focus restored;
bats 27/27 incl. niri validate on both desk profiles.
Bar start = launcher, wallpaper, workspaces, taskbar; center keeps only the cat plugin widget. settings.toml is the GUI-override layer, symlinked from this repo.
live store wired 2026-10-09: provider custom -> frank-secondary @
192.168.0.143:7771, prompt default_improve_transcriptions,
post_process on, self-autostart off (niri owns it)
- desk.sh: list/current/switch/cycle/match/capture over cfg/desk-*.kdl
profiles; apply = relink display.kdl, niri validate (rollback on fail),
load-config-file, noctalia notification; match scores // requires: lines
(EDID long names) against live niri msg outputs
- desk-autoswitch.sh: watch niri msg --json event-stream for
OutputsChanged, debounced desk.sh match --apply, reconnect loop
- blankpad-desk-autoswitch.service: ConditionHost=blankpad user unit
- gen-keybinds.sh: keybinds.kdl -> markdown cheat sheet (sections from
// --- headers, hotkey-overlay-title preferred over action)
- tests/: 27 bats cases, all green (desk 16, gen-keybinds 6,
niri-config 5 incl. real niri validate on the assembled tree with
each desk profile active)
DP-2: transform 90 -> normal with mode 3440x1440@239.999 pinned, moved
(0,0) -> (1581,-600). HDMI-A-1: transform 270 -> 90 (portrait kept, top bezel
now on the left). eDP-1 re-pinned (2400,840) -> (5021,-240) to sit rightmost.
All three positions stay pinned so niri's auto-layout cannot reflow them.
consume-or-expel-window-left/right on Mod+[ and Mod+],
consume-window-into-column on Mod+, expel-window-from-column on
Mod+.. Moving a window into the next column joins (splits) that
column deterministically instead of relying on the hardcoded
drag-insert heuristic, which spawns a new column first.
Remap palette indices 1 and 9 to green so error output renders in
terminal green. Explicit palette entries override the generated
noctalia theme (palette-generate = true).
- DP-2 at 1536,0 and HDMI-A-1 at 2736,0, both 1200x1920 portrait, scale 1
- eDP-1 pinned at 0,0 with explicit scale 1.25 (output blocks reset unspecified props)
- niri transform is counter-clockwise: 90 = top bezel left, 270 = top bezel right
- remove 'include noctalia.kdl' from shared config.kdl: the file is a
per-host noctalia template render (colors from local palette), was
never committed, and made every config load fail hard on hosts where
it was absent — niri 26.04 falls back to DEFAULT config on parse
error, silently killing keybinds/rules/layout/autostart
- theme integration now only via keybinds (noctalia msg verbs) + the
host-local rendered files (see managed skill noctalia-template-offline-render)
- sync agent memories: delete retired memory-store skills, add new ones
Frank