rofi, clipmenu, feh, i3status-rust and the laptop's model module wrote files into i3's config.d,
naming no dependency on the window manager. They now contribute their lines; i3 places them under a
line naming each module, and config.d is the operator's alone. The catalogue-wide test composes the
contributions as the controller does and checks the whole with i3 -C.
A licence store rebuilt after issue 241 counted generations from one again,
and nodes that apply only a higher number discarded the login move and the
rotations unseen. Nodes now apply any binding other than the one applied;
the manager moves its sequence past every generation a node reports. hq
issue 243.
mssql disables the login, mongodb takes the user's roles, minio revokes the key and keeps the bucket,
mailu disables the mailbox, gitea prohibits the login instead of purging the user and their
repositories, umami keeps the website. Each provider's create already enables what this locks.
On one server the watcher reported a lock that logind did not list. A descriptor that is not an
inhibitor reference is never wrapped (0 would be the bundle's stdin, its channel to the runtime), and
every poll checks the lock is still held, taking it again and saying why when it is not.
managed-settings.json carried only the mesh's fixed keys, so permissions and
auto-mode rules could only be set by hand per machine, outside the mesh.
A managed_settings setting is laid under the mesh's keys, which still win.
The host reads a one-shot that is not running as having run, so a before-sleep or after-wake unit
declared stopped failed on its first apply; drop-ins on the sleep targets pull them in instead.
Code around sleep was written into the service manager's sleep units by the module that needed it,
and the mesh could not tell a sleeping machine from a lost one. power runs every module's code for
the six moments, each piece bounded, owns logind's power handling from its settings, and says
booted, sleeping, woke, shutting-down and the power source on the bus, sleeping under logind's
delay lock before the machine sleeps.
The first version swapped the colour build for the distribution's plain i3lock and locked to black;
adopting means keeping what the operator had. Plain i3lock remains the fallback, with a blurred
screenshot of its own.
A Go bundle the runtime launches beside the nats module's server. It reads
the server's monitoring API and the composed user list — never a password
hash — and changes nothing. Reached directly when the endpoint is published,
through the container otherwise: its configuration binds monitoring to the
container's own loopback, so the published port answers nothing today.
The laptop's model module owned triggerhappy's trigger file and service, although the daemon is a
general piece others have keys for. triggerhappy now owns the daemon, reads only the mesh's file,
runs every trigger as the account, and the model module contributes its vendor keys.
Two definitions held one module name. Rebuilt to this catalogue's main on 2026-10-04, the mesh took
this stub — a server and an admin client — over the app's definition in photos.git, and five of its
six sites lost their routes. The app's repository is the source, as de-spiegel's and link2pay's are.
ADR 0183: retired once the licence manager runs. claude-licence-manager has
held the anthropic-licence-manager seat since 2026-10-04; neither old module
was assigned anywhere.
X reset twice during the session start and threw away the resources xrdb had just merged, so
xterm came up in the bitmap fixed font. clipmenud's one-second xsel read of a screenshot was
killed mid-transfer and left the image's owner hung, so every paste after it hung.
The i3 and laptop READMEs each pointed at the other for 10-asus.conf and 20-g14.conf,
so nobody owned them. The module now writes both (adopted paths, so no duplicate
binding breaks i3's config check), ships the scripts they call, runs the media keys
with notifications again, and brings back the touchpad reset after resume as a unit
the sleep services want. zephyrus_keys answers what each custom key runs; the check
flags as-user, thd's account and the resume unit. xorg-xinput is the xorg module's.
The laptop model's hardware module and a memory-pressure module for any
machine (hq research 027/03, 026/05, to-be 42 phase 3). The predecessor's
polling auto-profile and mem-guard user scripts become each module's own
Go code launched by the node runtime (ADR 0198): a profile switcher woken
by the kernel's power-supply uevents, and a guard that warns on RAM, swap
or PSI before systemd-oomd acts, on the desktop over the account's bus and
always as an event. supergfxctl and triggerhappy are kept as found
(research 027 Q1).
The host refuses boot on a service that leaves its state to the machine, so lemurs.service
is declared running (no trigger, so a push still never restarts it). pacman-contrib is the
pacman module's, and two modules declaring one package make a node unresolvable.
The manager binds the node a login was adopted from to that login's licence,
switching it if it was bound to another; serves public_key; adopt takes a
key sealed to it. claude-code gains claude_code_add_api_key: read a file on
this node, seal, hand to adopt, remove the file, optionally switch here.
lemurs leaves the session a stdout nobody reads, so a program writing to it dies of EPIPE.
i3lock-color provides i3lock, so with it still installed the host saw i3lock as present,
skipped the install and then removed the only locker; removing it first lets the same
apply install i3lock.
GTK 3/4 settings, qt6ct, portals.conf and the default cursor as owned files.
GTK_THEME, GTK2_RC_FILES, the Qt words and XCURSOR_* as environment
contributions. The GSettings keys the portal serves go in the xinitrc slot,
replacing the predecessor's appearance script, and the cursor in the
xresources slot.
Qt is drawn by Fusion with qt6ct's darker palette instead of the
user-repository adwaita-qt, which is no longer developed. qt5ct is dropped. The
fonts are research 026's Inter and JetBrains Mono, and portals.conf routes the
Secret interface to gnome-keyring, which nothing answered.
The tools are appearance (dark or light per audience, switched for the session),
cursor, icons, and portal-check (which backend answers which interface, and why).
It requires x11-display, names itself in TERMINAL, and contributes its X resources
to the xresources slot normal: today's palette and clipboard keys, JetBrainsMono
Nerd Font, 10000 lines of scrollback, all scoped to XTerm* instead of every Xt
program. It owns no file.
The tools are the seat's open, which starts a terminal through the account's
service manager so it outlives the runtime's restarts, and font (in force, what
fontconfig resolves it to, set for new terminals) and colours.
It requires x11-display and contributes exec i3 to xinitrc's last slot, and
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP/XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP to the environment. It owns
~/.config/i3/config, ending with the config.d include where other modules drop
their files, and /etc/lemurs/wms/i3, which runs the session's start.
Over today's identical config it drops the dead lxpolkit, the D-Bus-activated
portal, the xrdb merge xorg now does, and the execs that XDG autostart already
started. It sets JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, runs i3-sensible-terminal, and declares
dex, which the desktop lacked.
The tools speak i3's IPC: the seat's reload, workspaces and windows, and focus,
move, layout save/restore, exec, kill, bindings, config check, marks and the
scratchpad. A watcher in the bundle (ADR 0198) replaces the predecessor's inotify
script and user unit. It reloads only a configuration i3 -C accepts, and at its
start whatever i3 has not loaded.
The official package in place of lemurs-git, and /etc/lemurs/config.toml in lemurs
0.4's structure. It offers only the session scripts that modules place in
/etc/lemurs/wms and /etc/lemurs/wayland, never a package's bare desktop entry, which
skips the session's start. The service is enabled and never started, stopped or
restarted by a push.
The tools are the seat's sessions, the default session (lemurs's cache, through
sudo -n) and logins from the journal and lemurs's own log. The package swap from
lemurs-git is a one-off step for the operator, listed in the README.
The X server, its start and its tools as one module. It provides x11-display with
the machine's reach, gated by the host's seat capability. It writes a block at the
start of ~/.xinitrc: the account's environment, an explicit import into the user
manager, the mesh's X resources merged without cpp, autorandr, the xinitrc slots,
~/.xinitrc.local, and the session's exec from the last slot.
Its Go tools serve the seat's displays and layout (autorandr profiles keyed by
EDID), and set-mode, primary, dpi, input devices and settings, keyboard, a
screenshot (xwd decoded in Go) and the server's log. internal/desktop is how
every desktop tool finds the operator's session from the runtime, which has none:
from the session's own processes, reading only its words, confirmed with logind.
PAM lines written into login and passwd as blocks, so login unlocks the keyring
on both workstations; no daemon of its own; gcr's ssh agent named for the session
until the environment can say a runtime-directory path. Go tools unlocked, lock,
collections and ssh-keys, never reading a secret.
Owns both bars and their icons, the bar blocks as an i3 drop-in; the battery,
GPU and headset blocks leave (hardware and a person's devices), the weather needs
no key; the update count and the bar watchdog become module code, the watchdog
started once per session. Go tools reload, blocks, block-run and themes.
Replaces the AUR greenclip (declared absent) with the official clipmenu, started
once from the session's xinitrc slot, its menu the launcher's dmenu command bound
as an i3 drop-in, its history in the runtime directory. Go tools read and change
clipmenu's own store under its lock.
The distribution's i3lock behind a locker that releases xss-lock's sleep lock
once it is up; timeouts and xss-lock from the session's xinitrc slot, ending
with the session; i3lock-color and xscreensaver declared absent; Go tools lock,
idle, inhibit and locked.
Owns one dunstrc (the laptop's, in the interface face, its menu on the seat's
dmenu command) and the dunstrc.d directory for other modules' rules; D-Bus
starts it, so nothing else does. Go tools over the session bus.
Places the seat's dmenu-compatible command, the launcher and power menu, its
themes in the decided faces, and its key bindings as an i3 drop-in; Go tools
menu, applications, themes and run.
Owns its configuration, moved to picom's window rules; started once from the
session's xinitrc slot; Go tools restart, rules, window-opacity and toggle, which
find the operator's X session from the window manager's environment.
Research 026/04 counted two plain dmenu calls failing with dmenu installed
nowhere. Measured, they are one line on each workstation: dunst's
`dmenu = /usr/bin/dmenu -p dunst:`. Installing the package fixes both by
existing; the line stays the dunst module's.
No claim: node-launcher is not in the controller's seat table yet, and the
module says so. Two Go tools: menu, shaped like that seat's verb (chosen
line, index, typed, cancelled, timed out within 25 s), and session.
A package and nothing else, the tool the desktop's scripts depend on.
Four Go tools: copy, paste (text, base64 for other types, empty when
nothing), targets and session.
The runtime is given no session words, but runs as the account in the
machine's own namespace, so the session is found rather than configured:
the process's DISPLAY, else the account's processes' DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY
from /proc (the window manager's first), else the only X socket with
~/.Xauthority. Measured with both variables unset: :1 found through i3, the
server answered. With no session every tool says so and runs nothing.
bluez and bluez-utils, and bluetooth.service running and enabled. On both
workstations bluez is installed only as a dependency; declaring it keeps a
clean-up from taking it.
Nine Go tools over bluetoothctl: controller, power, devices with battery
where reported, a bounded scan, connect, disconnect, trust, pair (an agent
that confirms nothing, for headphones) and remove. An act whose output says
it failed is an error whatever the exit status, and one bluez refuses the
account is repeated through sudo -n.
jochen
jschoubben
mesh-admin