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# Window Manager Migration — Progress Log
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Running log of decisions, actions, and findings as we migrate from GNOME to Hyprland on Fedora 43.
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## 2026-04-17 — Decision + planning
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**Decision: Hyprland + DankMaterialShell (DMS).**
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Considered:
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- **Sway** — most stable; already installed as fallback. Rejected as *primary* because community momentum has shifted to Hyprland/Niri, and user wants eye candy.
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- **Niri** — too new for a "stable enough for daily use" pick.
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- **Hyprland** — chosen. Mature enough for daily use, active community, the default people will be learning in 2028.
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Shell:
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- **DMS** chosen over **Noctalia**. Reasoning: first-party Fedora COPR, `dms setup` replaces waybar + swaylock + swayidle + mako + fuzzel + polkit in one package, lowest config burden for a new user. Noctalia is equally healthy but its plugin model and patched Quickshell fork add papercuts while still learning Hyprland itself. Revisit later.
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GNOME and Sway stay installed as GDM fallback sessions.
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**Hardware detected:**
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- Fedora 43, kernel 6.19.11-200.fc43.x86_64
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- GPU: AMD Radeon Vega (Cezanne APU, primary) + NVIDIA RTX 3060 (discrete, unused for display)
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- Only `nvidia-gpu-firmware` installed — no proprietary NVIDIA driver. Hyprland will run on the AMD path (the easy one). `prime-run` for dGPU later if needed.
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**Research (summarized from agents):**
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- Hyprland install path on Fedora: `solopasha/hyprland` COPR (not yet in official repos as of Jan 2026 knowledge cutoff — verify at install time).
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- DMS install path: `avengemedia/dms` COPR. Latest release 1.4.4 (2026-03-21).
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- Noctalia latest release 4.7.6 (2026-04-15) — noted for future reference.
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- Starter config reference: `mylinuxforwork/hyprland-starter` — minimal and readable, not adopted wholesale.
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- Chose dwindle layout (Hyprland default, BSPWM-style).
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- Terminal: kitty primary, foot installed as lightweight backup.
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- Launcher: fuzzel (native Wayland, keyboard-first). DMS spotlight also available.
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**Docs created:**
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- `idea.md` — original notes.
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- `plan.md` — step-by-step install plan in phases 0–4, deferred items in phase 5.
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- `cheatsheet.md` — keybindings reference.
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- `progress.md` — this file.
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**Next:** work through `plan.md` Phase 0 → Phase 4. Append dated entries here as each phase completes.
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---
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## Template for future entries
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```
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## YYYY-MM-DD — <phase or topic>
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- What happened.
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- Anything that didn't go as the plan said — correction applied.
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- Decisions made that weren't in the plan.
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```
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## 2026-04-17 — Starting state
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- Fedora: Fedora release 43 (Forty Three)
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- Kernel: 6.19.11-200.fc43.x86_64
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- Session: wayland / GNOME
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- Installed Wayland sessions: gnome-classic.desktop gnome-classic-wayland.desktop gnome.desktop gnome-wayland.desktop sway.desktop
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- GPU:
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] (rev a1)
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08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c9)
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## 2026-04-17 — Phase 0 complete
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- Enabled RPM Fusion free, solopasha/hyprland COPR, avengemedia/dms COPR (+ danklinux dep repo)
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- Available versions verified: hyprland 0.51.1, dms 1.4.4, hyprlock 0.9.2, hypridle 0.1.7, hyprpaper 0.7.6, hyprpolkitagent 0.1.3, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland 1.3.11, kitty 0.43.1, fuzzel 1.14.0, foot 1.25.0
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- Noted: nonfree-nvidia-driver repo is already enabled on this system (pre-existing), but we are NOT installing akmod-nvidia
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- systems-admin initialized as local-only git repo; initial docs commit 7714c6e
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## 2026-04-17 — Phase 1 dependency detour
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- solopasha's hyprpolkitagent currently broken on Fedora 43: its dep hyprland-qt-support was built against Qt 6.9 but updates now ship Qt 6.10.3.
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- Workaround: installing lxpolkit instead (GTK, no Qt dep). Autostart line changed to 'exec-once = lxpolkit'.
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- Revisit hyprpolkitagent once solopasha rebuilds against Qt 6.10.
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- 2026-04-18: Installed DMS v1.4.4
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## 2026-04-18 — Phase 2 + Phase 3 complete
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- Created ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf; `hyprland --verify-config` reported "config ok"
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- Using lxpolkit in autostart (not hyprpolkitagent — see Phase 1 detour)
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- Created ~/.config/hypr/hyprpaper.conf; hyprpaper added to autostart; ~/Pictures/wallpapers/ created (drop default.jpg there before first login)
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- Moved hypr config into ~/.dotfiles/hypr stow package; symlink verified; committed 60f57df to dotfiles repo
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- DMS config will be added to stow after confirming dms setup output is stable (per plan note)
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## 2026-04-19 — Phase 4: windowrule syntax fix
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- On first Hyprland login: config errors on all windowrule lines — "Invalid rulev2 found: match:class ^(...)$"
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- Root cause: `^(...)$` wrapping was the old windowrulev2 regex format; Hyprland 0.51 explicitly rejects it even with the new `windowrule` keyword. Correct 0.51 syntax uses plain names or bare regexes with no outer grouping parens.
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- Fixed all windowrule and layerrule patterns in hyprland.conf (stripped `^(...)$`; kept `^org\.gnome\.` prefix anchor without outer group).
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- Updated docs: CLAUDE.md, docs/hyprland/version-history.md, docs/hyprland/window-rules.md all corrected to show actual 0.51 syntax.
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- Noted: solopasha COPR still at 0.51.1 for Fedora 43; upstream latest is 0.54.0. Upgrade deferred until COPR catches up.
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