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Desktop configuration for desk. Arch Linux, Hyprland, Quickshell, Rosé Pine.

Full quality: docs/demo.mp4.

Session

greetd starts tuigreet. tuigreet starts Hyprland. hyprland.lua then starts the desktop.

Program	Function
lastshell	The shell. Two bars, nine modals, notifications, a narrator. Quickshell.
tabstrip	Browser-tab daemon. Feeds the bar strip and the tab switcher.
claude-status.py	Claude Code session daemon. Feeds the session chips.
hyprglaze	Shader wallpaper daemon. It draws the wallpaper.
hypridle	Idle timers (hypridle.conf). They report input to deskpresence and run scripts/tv-watchdog.sh.
wl-paste	Clipboard watcher. It stores history in cliphist.

Hyprland reads the Lua files. Hyprland reloads the configuration when you save a file. Do not run hyprctl reload.

lastshell

config/quickshell/lastshell is the shell (a vendored copy of slastra/lastshell, last synced at f0cd0b0). Raw Quickshell, no framework.

The bars are tab chips hanging off the screen edges. Four instruments are drawn, not fonted: an analog clock (hour hand only), a thermometer, a speaker whose arcs grow with volume, and a usage ring. Icons are Lucide; text is ShureTechMono. Nerd-font icon glyphs are banned. Qt renders their private-use codepoints wrong.

The modals share one chrome: header with an identity icon and a prompt caret, scrolling body with a gliding cursor and gold match highlighting, hint footer, animated backdrop mask.

Bind	Modal
SUPER + Space	Launcher. Open windows first, by focus recency, then apps by frecency.
SUPER + W	Tab switcher. Every tab in every browser window, globally.
SUPER + A	Audio sink picker.
SUPER + B	Wallpaper effect picker.
SUPER + V	Clipboard history.
SUPER + N	Notification center.
SUPER + /	Hotkey sheet, parsed live from binds.lua. It cannot drift.
Print	Capture menu. Stops a recording instantly if one is running.
SUPER + X	Dictation. Tap to talk, tap to stop; the transcript comes back cleaned up for the window it is headed to, and Enter pastes it there.

SUPER + T reads the selection (else the clipboard) aloud. The player is a chip on the bottom bar, not a modal: hover it for the passage, progress, speed, voice and tidy. SUPER + SHIFT + T pauses, SUPER + CTRL + T stops.

Notifications are lastshell's own server: urgency-washed toasts with a countdown ring around the dismiss button, and a history the center reads.

Daemons

The shell renders; daemons own data. tabstrip (Go, repo) watches browsers over D-Bus and writes a snapshot the shell's FileView watches. The bar strip is workspace-filtered; tabstrip list is the global view. claude-status.py (config/lastshell/) watches Claude Code sessions, usage quotas, Hyprland focus, and MQTT face state, and writes one JSON snapshot.

Engines

Two rofi-era scripts survive as backends with the menus stripped off: capture.sh (grim/slurp/satty screenshots and gpu-screen-recorder capture, invoked by subcommand from the capture modal) and hotkeys.py (the live binds.lua parser behind the hotkey sheet, --json).

The TV

The display is an LG OLED. scripts/tv-screen.sh turns the TV itself off and on over the LAN instead of using DPMS. A DPMS wake forces an HDMI 2.1 FRL retrain the NVIDIA driver refuses to retry, which latches the desktop at 60 Hz. scripts/tv-pixel-refresh.sh runs the panel's pixel cleaning nightly by driving the TV's own menus over the remote-control API. scripts/lg-ipctl.py speaks the TV's encrypted IP-control protocol; its key lives in ~/.config/lgtv/ipcontrol.key, outside this repo.

deskpresence (radar presence) owns blanking the TV. scripts/tv-watchdog.sh is the fallback: if deskpresence has died, it blanks the TV after 10 minutes without input. scripts/unblank.sh lifts lastshell's blackout shader on input if a crash left it applied.

Layout

config/
├── quickshell/lastshell/   the shell (QML)
├── hypr/                   hyprland.lua, binds.lua, theme.lua, idle.sh, scripts/
├── lastshell/              claude-status.py, lamp.sh (shell-adjacent daemons)
├── rofi/scripts/           capture.sh, hotkeys.py (engines, menuless)
├── qt6ct/colors/           rose-pine.conf (Qt palette)
├── kitty/                  kitty.conf, colors.conf
├── nvim/lua/               colors.lua
└── starship.toml
hosts/lap/                  the laptop (below)

Laptop (hosts/lap)

lap is a Lenovo Slim 7 14IRP8 (i7-1360P, 2880×1800 40–120 Hz panel). It runs the same lastshell checkout as the desk (one tree; services/Host.qml switches the desk-only chips off) and the files under hosts/lap/config/ in place of the desk's config/hypr. capture.sh and hotkeys.py are the desk's, unchanged.

Presence comes from the ST VL53L1 time-of-flight sensor on the Intel sensor hub, through deskpresence (systemd/deskpresence-tof.service): away 30 s fades and blanks the panel through scripts/laptop-screen.sh; hypridle's timeouts go through scripts/presence-guard.sh, so reading without touching anything isn't idle.

Brightness steps a perceptual level (CIE L*), so 5% looks the same at the floor as at full, and every change eases instead of jumping. The keys go through lastshell: a tap is one step, holding glides (the ACPI video bus reports no hold, only firmware repeats of the tap).

SUPER + SHIFT + N (or a click on the network chip) is the Wi-Fi picker: joined, saved, then nearby networks by signal; a new secured one asks for its password. scripts/wifi.py talks to iwd over D-Bus and is its passphrase agent, and runs only while the picker is open or a join is in flight.

With hyprglaze off (battery, eco) the background is a still Rosé Pine mesh gradient: walls/mesh.png, rendered by scripts/mesh-wallpaper.py (not committed; run it once), shown by hyprpaper as systemd/user/wallpaper-still.service. Starting either one stops the other, and hyprglaze's drop-in brings the still back when it stops cleanly. The unit is not the packaged hyprpaper.service: that one Requires graphical-session.target, and stopping it took hyprglaze down too. Clicking the battery chip opens the Eco dialog.

Battery: idle went from ~9.7 W to ~2.5 W (screen dim, nothing working). Eco mode (scripts/eco.sh, Super+Shift+E; the lastshell dialog on Super+Ctrl+E) drops to power-saver, 60 Hz, no blur, animation or animated border, and switches Bluetooth and the keyboard light off. On battery without eco, scripts/power-watch.sh still turns 120 Hz, blur and hyprglaze off. VRR stays off: it disables the panel's PSR2 self-refresh.

hosts/lap/etc/ holds copies of the root-owned tweaks, installed by hand with sudo install -Dm644 <file> /etc/<same path> (nothing here installs them):

File	Why
udev/rules.d/70-lenovo-tof-sensor.rules	The ToF sensor's streams and enable switch for the input group, and report latency 1000 ms so the hub batches samples (~9 wakeups/s → ~1).
udev/rules.d/80-pci-runtime-pm.rules	PCI runtime PM auto for every device.
sysctl.d/80-power.conf	NMI watchdog off, dirty writeback every 15 s.
modprobe.d/80-audio-power.conf	HDA codec power saving.
intel_lpmd/intel_lpmd_config.xml	intel-lpmd parks onto the E-cores (8–15) when lightly loaded, in power-saver only (~0.2 W).
boot/kernel-params	pcie_aspm.policy=powersupersave: without it the NVMe never reaches L1.2 and s2idle never reaches S0ix.

local/bin/say is the piper one-liner Claude Code speaks through; it plays via PipeWire (pw-play), since aplay opening the card directly knocked the speaker sink out with EBUSY. The OpenRouter key dictation and the reader use stays out of the repo (~/.config/lastshell/openrouter.key).

Components

• lastshell, the shell itself
• tabstrip, the browser-tab daemon
• tabctl, the D-Bus mediator underneath
• Rosé Pine, the palette everywhere

License

MIT