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bgrollemanandClaude Sonnet 5.5 cb80e100f4 Switch to Noctalia v5 and fix niri startup

Fix Mod+T bind (one action per bind), launch noctalia v5 from autostart,
port keybinds to `noctalia msg`, add config.toml, changelog and docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-10-10 11:08:24 +02:00

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Noctalia v5

Noctalia v5 (noctalia package) is a native Wayland shell with no Qt dependency. It replaces v4 (noctalia-shell + noctalia-qs, Quickshell/QML), which broke on Qt 6.12.

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noctalia/config.toml - hand-edited config, hot-reloaded. Linked to ~/.config/noctalia/config.toml.
~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml - GUI-managed overrides and runtime state (not in this repo).
noctalia/settings.json - old v4 config, kept for reference or fallback.

Validate after editing: noctalia config validate. Open the settings GUI: noctalia msg settings-open.

Startup and keybinds

Started from niri/cfg/autostart.kdl with spawn-at-startup "noctalia".
Keybinds in niri/cfg/keybinds.kdl call noctalia msg <command>; list them with noctalia msg --help.
Panel ids for panel-toggle: clipboard, control-center, launcher, polkit, session, tray-drawer, wallpaper.
Wallpaper is set with noctalia msg wallpaper-set [output] <path> and persists.

Bar

Layout is the start, center and end lists in [bar.main].
[bar.main.monitor.ultrawide] matches DP-1 and sets margin_ends = 768, which gives about 70% width on 5120px. Formula: (monitor_width - wanted_width) / 2.

Not ported from v4

System monitor widget (widget id unknown in v5), per-widget options such as hover-only labels.
v4 plugins (polkit-agent): v5 has a built-in polkit panel instead.
The v4 bar only ran on DP-1; v5 runs on every output.

Rolling back

Set autostart to qs -c noctalia-shell again and restore the qs ... ipc call binds from git history. This needs a noctalia-shell that works with the installed Qt version.

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