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
Adds custom palette "Gruber Red" (live at
~/.config/noctalia/palettes/Gruber Red.json, symlinked into this repo's
noctalia package). Derived from community "Gruber Darker" with jq:
dark mPrimary/terminal yellow/terminal foreground -> #f43841 (bright
yellow -> #ff4f58), light-mode yellows -> the light error reds. Custom
source, so the community-palette md5 sync cannot revert it.
gtk-3/gtk-4 noctalia.css are regenerated artifacts of templates-apply
(accent_* now red) committed so every host renders the same recolor.
blankpad runs quickshell 0.3.1 from repos with the noctalia shell; flip
Mod+Return to spawn ghostty (installed) instead of alacritty, and put the
bun global bin dir on PATH so the pi-coding-agent/omp shim resolves in
interactive zsh.
Host-specific divergence for blankpad deployed last with override semantics:
display layout (its own outputs, not Dankware's DP/eDP rig), autostart and
keybinds targeting the bare 'noctalia' CLI instead of qs -c noctalia-shell,
misc without renderD129, rules without the Noctalia floating-window rule, and
blank's own .zshrc. All other packages deploy canonical from base.
Import Dankware's environment layer into the repo as home-relative package
trees (niri, gtk-3/4, ghostty, alacritty, fish, zsh, bash, profile,
systemd-user, dconf). scripts/deploy.sh implements stow-equivalent semantics
(check|adopt|sync modes): identical files adopt to symlinks, new files link,
divergent files quarantine-and-replace under .quarantine/<host>/<ts>/ (gitignored).
zz-<hostname> override packages deploy last with override semantics.
Secrets never enter git: GITEA_TOKEN moved from .zshrc into untracked
~/.config/environment.d/secrets.env (0600); tracked .zshrc sources it
guarded. core.hooksPath armed by deploy.sh so the pre-commit secret gate is
live on every machine that deploys.
Frank