Snapshots panel was non-functional (wrong snapper flag); breadgreet picked
the wrong session .desktop and skipped bos-session's PATH fixup; Calamares
aborted offline installs over an unnecessary packages module; snapshot
rollback silently no-op'd on BOS's pinned-subvolume layout (now points at
grub-btrfs instead); breadcrumbs was configurable but had no daemon to run
it. Also: SUPER+I double-bind, breadpaper/packages panels blocking the GTK
main thread, dead polkit rule, and a sweep of smaller drift (default
sidebar view, stale wording, missing .desktop launchers, wallpaper daemon
not recording its own default).
Boot-critical (each confirmed with a real boot/install cycle, not just
code review):
- Live ISO's liveuser shell is zsh, but Hyprland autostart was written
to .bash_profile (never runs) — moved to .zprofile, and switched to
start-hyprland (Hyprland's own watchdog wrapper; raw `exec Hyprland`
is no longer the recommended launch method).
- copytoram (self-enables on most real hardware: non-optical boot +
image < 4GiB + enough free RAM) unmounts /run/archiso/bootmnt, which
unpackfs.conf and bos-copy-kernel both hardcoded as their source —
broke the installer outright on real hardware, confirmed by forcing
copytoram=y. Added a resolver step for unpackfs, and switched the
kernel copy to /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz (part of the live
squashfs itself, unaffected by copytoram).
- BIOS installs got no bootloader — post-install.sh only ever ran the
UEFI grub-install path despite BOS shipping bios.syslinux. Added a
BIOS branch with disk auto-detection.
- @snapshots/@log/@cache were never real: iso/partition.conf's
btrfsSubvolumes key isn't part of this Calamares version's partition
module schema at all (same class of bug as the userShell fix below —
silently ignored). Calamares only natively creates @ and @home.
post-install.sh now creates the three subvolumes by hand after
unpackfs, migrates existing /var/log + /var/cache content into them
before mounting over, and adds the fstab entries — verified end to
end on real hardware, including grub-btrfs generating bootable
snapshot menu entries. The unmount step in the existing snapper
create-config dance also gained retry + lazy-unmount fallback after
a real chroot run hit a transient busy-mount race.
- Default shell was bash instead of zsh post-install: users.conf's
top-level `userShell` key isn't part of this Calamares version's
users module schema either — the real key is nested (user.shell).
- graphical-session.target ships RefuseManualStart=yes (systemd
convention), so the earlier attempt to activate it from hyprland.lua
silently failed and breadclipd (WantedBy=graphical-session.target)
never started. Starts breadclipd.service directly instead.
- /etc/os-release was never set (showed "Arch Linux"); live boot never
had quiet/splash/plymouth wired in (raw kernel scroll the whole
time) despite BOS already shipping a complete bread-logo+spinner
plymouth theme for the installed system.
Also: generalized build-local.sh's per-service skel baking (previously
only breadd.service was hand-committed; breadbox-sync/breadmill/
breadclipd never shipped), added the four new bakery packages to
BREAD_BINS, removed the redundant cliphist/fzf clipboard pipeline in
favor of breadclip, mirrored fastfetch's bread-logo config into skel,
and fixed a stale bos-update comment.
- post-install: ensure the `microcode` initramfs hook (after autodetect) so
installed systems carry CPU ucode — the live ISO embeds it, so nothing is
staged onto the target otherwise. Rebuild all presets with `mkinitcpio -P`.
- post-install: drop the nonexistent `sd-plymouth` hook branch; only the udev
`plymouth` hook exists. Set the theme then rebuild once.
- packages: add zathura + zathura-pdf-mupdf (BOS had no PDF viewer) and
libva-utils (`vainfo`); the Mesa VA-API backend now ships in `mesa` itself.
- bos-welcome: on first run, if NetworkManager isn't fully online, open nmtui
so the user connects before the first bos-update/pacman (avoids confusing DNS
errors on a fresh install). Float the bos-netsetup window like bos-welcome.
Best practice for the long-running bread daemon: ship an enabled user unit in
skel (~/.config/systemd/user/breadd.service + default.target.wants symlink)
instead of a bare Hyprland exec-once. Gives crash-restart, journald logging
(journalctl --user -u breadd), and proper lifecycle.
- ExecStart uses %h so it works for any account created from skel (not a
hardcoded home).
- RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=yes so restarting breadd doesn't wipe the shared
theme.css that bread-theme writes into /run/user/<uid>/bread.
- hyprland.lua: replace the `breadd` exec-once with a Wayland-env import
(dbus-update-activation-environment) + `systemctl --user restart breadd`, so
the service — which autostarts at login before Hyprland exists — picks up
HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE and can drive the compositor.
- Add bread-theme to the binaries baked into /etc/skel from bakery state.
- Run `bread-theme generate` first in the Hyprland autostart so the shared
GUI stylesheet ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bread/theme.css) exists before breadbar /
breadbox / bos-settings paint (they also live-reload it on change).
New users get a one-time welcome window on first boot (self-gating marker,
skipped for the live/installer user) and a keybind cheatsheet on SUPER+/.
Also bind BOS Settings to SUPER+, (it had no launcher bind). Both popups
are floated/centred via window rules. Addresses the onboarding/
discoverability gap from external review.
- libadwaita apps (nautilus, gnome-text-editor) rendered light because
gsettings-desktop-schemas + dconf were missing, so the color-scheme
prefer-dark autostart silently no-op'd. Add both packages.
- Replace Hyprland's slow default animations with the reference laptop's
bezier curves + per-leaf speeds (hl.curve + hl.animation).
- kitty background_opacity 0.88 -> 0.6 to match the laptop; drop the
macOS-only background_blur line (Hyprland supplies the blur).
- Add README.md documenting the actual image, build, and test flow.
bibata-cursor-theme-bin 2.0.7-1 is now in the [breadway] repo, so add it
back to the package list and re-enable the Bibata-Modern-Ice cursor in the
Hyprland env, GTK settings, and gsettings autostart.
