Feat/t400 and macpro31 hosts #17

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The bootloader is firmware-specific, not form-factor: UEFI hosts use
systemd-boot, BIOS hosts use GRUB. Drop boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable from
workstation.nix and declare it on the MBP instead, so the incoming BIOS-only
T400 (GRUB) doesn't have to force it off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- lyrathorpe-t400 replaces lyrathorpe-x1c: ThinkPad T400 (legacy BIOS -> GRUB,
  Intel microcode + redistributable firmware for iwlwifi, pipewire, sshd).
- lyrathorpe-macpro31: new desktop host (portable = false) importing
  desktop.nix. Mac Pro 3,1 has 64-bit EFI -> systemd-boot; wired NetworkManager
  via desktop.nix; desktop status bar (temperature + net, no battery).

Both ship hand-written placeholder hardware-configuration.nix (root/swap/ESP by
label, GRUB device /dev/sda) to be regenerated with nixos-generate-config and
committed at install time. All five host configs evaluate; nixfmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Split the T400 bootloader into self-contained, importable modules so the host
can match whatever firmware is flashed (switch by changing one import):
- boot-bios.nix       stock BIOS / coreboot+SeaBIOS -> GRUB on the MBR (default)
- boot-coreboot-grub.nix  coreboot GRUB payload -> config-only GRUB (device=nodev)
- boot-coreboot-uefi.nix  coreboot Tianocore/UEFI payload -> systemd-boot; carries
                          its own ESP (/boot vfat) so it travels with the mode

Cover the optional discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 (RV620): load the open
`radeon` KMS driver in the initrd for early modesetting (firmware via
enableRedistributableFirmware), with a note on the T400's switchable graphics.

All three boot variants evaluate; nixfmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add system/machine/{T400,MacPro31}/README.md covering the placeholder
hardware-configuration regeneration, partition labels, bootloader selection
(T400 boot variants; Mac Pro EFI quirks), and GPU notes. Link each from its
configuration.nix header, and refresh the top-level README host table (T400
replaces X1, Mac Pro 3,1 added) with links to both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace TTY/getty login with a graphical Wayland greeter on every host
with features.swayDesktop enabled (MBP, T400, Mac Pro; not the WSL box).
greetd launches ReGreet inside the cage kiosk compositor; the Sway
session is listed automatically via services.displayManager.sessionPackages.

Override regreet's mkDefault greetd command to export
XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=dvorak so the greeter password field matches the
console (workstation.nix) and Sway session (home/sway.nix) layout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Document the greetd/ReGreet greeter in the top-level README and the T400
and Mac Pro install notes, including that the user account needs a
password set before the greeter can authenticate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dvorak is a variant of the "us" XKB layout, not a layout of its own:
there is no symbols/dvorak file, so "dvorak" fails to compile.

In the greetd/cage greeter the keymap comes solely from XKB_DEFAULT_*, so
the failure left the greeter with no keymap and therefore no keyboard
input at all (mouse unaffected). Split it into
XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us + XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=dvorak.

The same mistake in the Sway session (home/sway.nix) was masked: the
default us keymap compiled and the failing override was silently dropped,
so the session ran QWERTY despite the dvorak setting. Use xkb_variant
there too so it is actually Dvorak.

console.keyMap = "dvorak" (workstation.nix) is unaffected -- that is a
kbd console map, a separate subsystem where "dvorak" is valid.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only `menu` was set, which the module's default keybindings run on Mod+d;
Mod+Space defaulted to `focus mode_toggle`, so sway-launcher-desktop was
never reachable from Mod+Space. Add an explicit Mod+Space -> exec ${menu}
binding at normal priority (via mkMerge) so it overrides the default.
Mod+d still launches it as well.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the mismatched theming (gruvbox i3status-rust, unthemed foot,
default Sway borders) with a single Catppuccin Mocha palette so the
desktop matches the Vim colorscheme. A `ctp` let-binding holds the raw
hex once; consumers add "#" as needed.

Themed: foot (16-colour + selection/cursor), i3status-rust ("plain" base
+ overrides, idle blocks on mantle, loud bg only for warning/critical),
Sway window borders and the bar/workspace buttons, swaylock (full
ring/inside/text set) and dunst (base/text bg, blue/peach frames).

Lives in the shared home/sway.nix, so every Sway host is themed
consistently. Vim already uses catppuccin_mocha, so the editor is
unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Factor the Catppuccin Mocha palette into lyrathorpe/catppuccin-mocha.nix
so the desktop (home/sway.nix) and the system greeter (swaywm.nix) share
one source of truth, then theme ReGreet from it: GTK CSS (libadwaita
named colours + plain node selectors for window/entry/button/combobox)
plus Noto Sans to match the bar and notifications.

Verified the rendered /etc/greetd/regreet.css and regreet.toml
(font_name = "Noto Sans 16"), and that foot still resolves its colours
through the shared import.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
greetd now owns tty1 and launches the Sway session, so the zsh
initContent that exec'd sway on tty1 login can never fire. Remove it (and
the now-unused lib arg), and refresh the module header (login is via the
greeter; host list MBP/T400/Mac Pro, no longer "X1").

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ReGreet is plain GTK4 (no libadwaita in its closure), so it defaulted to
light Adwaita and my libadwaita-named colour overrides (window_bg_color,
accent_bg_color, ...) were inert -- a light theme with stray accents.

Force the dark Adwaita variant via GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark in the greeter
wrapper, and override the GTK4 legacy colour names (theme_bg_color,
theme_fg_color, theme_selected_bg_color, borders, ...) that plain GTK4
actually references. The libadwaita names stay as harmless forward-compat.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
historySubstringSearch bound only the default CSI sequences (^[[A/^[[B),
so Up/Down did nothing at the prompt in foot and iTerm2, which send the
SS3 application-mode sequences (^[OA/^[OB). Bind both forms via
searchUpKey/searchDownKey; this covers foot, iTerm2 and the Linux TTY
(CSI).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two desktop-config fixes found together:

1. Keybindings: the previous Mod+Space launcher bind wrapped the set in
   `lib.mkMerge [ { ... } (mkOptionDefault ...) ]`. A normal-priority
   definition there wins over (and discards) the home-manager module's
   default keybindings, which are at mkOptionDefault priority -- so every
   default bind (terminal Mod+Return, movement, workspaces, kill, ...) and
   even the custom swaylock/volume binds silently vanished; only Mod+Space
   survived. That is why Super+Enter opened nothing. Restore the single
   mkOptionDefault wrapper (so it merges with the module defaults) and
   override just Mod+Space via lib.mkForce to beat the module's default
   focus-mode_toggle without a same-priority conflict. Generated config
   goes from 1 bindsym back to 57.

2. foot 1.27: the bare [colors] section is deprecated in favour of
   [colors-dark], and `[cursor] color` is rejected ("not a valid option:
   color"). Move the palette to colors-dark and set the cursor colour via
   its `cursor` key ("<text> <cursor>"). `foot --check-config` now passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Install nemo and bind it to Mod+e (mkForce, overriding the module
default `layout toggle split`). Add a home-manager `gtk` block so GTK
apps match the desktop: the Catppuccin Mocha GTK theme
(catppuccin-gtk, mocha/blue), with Adwaita icons + cursor as before.
Under Sway GTK reads ~/.config/gtk-*/settings.ini directly (no XSettings
daemon), so this themes nemo without extra env.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adapted from emmaisadev/dotfiles (sway/config.d) into the Nix config:

- Screenshots to swappy: Print = drag a region, Shift+Print = focused
  window (a writeShellScript reusing the grimshot.sh tree/jq logic).
  Replaces the old plain full-screen grim->file.
- Workspace cycle Mod+z / Mod+x (prev/next).
- Media keys (playerctl) and mic mute (wpctl source).
- Re-home `focus mode_toggle` onto Mod+Alt+space (Mod+Space is the
  launcher now).
- Clipboard history: services.clipman stores copies; Mod+c picks one
  through a Catppuccin-themed fuzzel (programs.fuzzel).
- Binding modes: a layout submenu (Mod+y -> s/w/e, which also restores
  split-toggle that Mod+e gave up to nemo) and a power menu
  (Mod+Shift+x -> lock/exit/sleep/reboot/shutdown). Mod+l still locks
  immediately.
- Touchpad tap + natural scroll (laptops; inert on desktop).
- Solid Catppuccin base as the wallpaper (output * bg, no image).
- foot: term=xterm-256color and scrollback 100000 (colours unchanged).
- swaywm.nix: add slurp/swappy/jq/playerctl to the session packages.

Skipped from the dotfiles: named workspaces + app auto-assign, the foot
--server/footclient setup, and pactl/MX-Master/lxqt device-specific bits.
All in the shared files, so every Sway host gets it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
From emmaisadev/dotfiles (tmux.conf): run a non-login shell
(default-command), drop the stock %/" split keys (the s/v vim splits
already come from reverseSplit), declare foot's terminal-features
(RGB/sync/clipboard/title/ccolour/cstyle), and raise the scrollback to
500000. Alt-arrow pane nav and mouse were already present. Also drop a
stale comment referencing the removed tty1 autostart.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Document every configured shortcut in lyrathorpe/home/KEYBINDINGS.md,
compiled from the rendered configs (so it includes the home-manager Sway
module defaults alongside the custom binds and modes), and link it from
the top-level README. Notes the Dvorak keysym caveat and the
laptop-only brightness keys.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Set gtk.gtk4.theme = config.gtk.theme so any GTK4 app added later is
themed too. GTK4 ignores gtk-theme-name, but home-manager renders this as
an `@import` of the theme's gtk-4.0/gtk.css into ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css
-- which libadwaita honours, since that file overrides the named colours
it uses (window_bg_color/accent_bg_color/view_bg_color, verified present
in catppuccin-gtk's GTK4 stylesheet). Setting it explicitly (to the same
value as the legacy default) also silences the stateVersion<26.05
default-change warning. nemo (GTK3) is unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
feat(firefox): theme with the Catppuccin Mocha add-on
CI / flake (pull_request) Failing after 1m10s
745188c3cf
Firefox draws its own chrome and ignores the GTK theme, so theme it at the
browser level. Add the rycee firefox-addons flake input and, in the
home-manager desktop layer, manage the Firefox profile (package = null --
the system programs.firefox in user.nix still provides the binary):

- install the Catppuccin Mocha theme add-on (catppuccin-mocha-mauve; only
  the mauve accent is packaged upstream, so it differs slightly from the
  blue accent used elsewhere),
- autoDisableScopes = 0 so it applies on first launch,
- ui.systemUsesDarkTheme + prefers-color-scheme override for dark chrome
  and page content.

Verified the XPI fetches, user.js renders the prefs, finalPackage is null
(no duplicate Firefox), all Sway hosts eval, and EDaaS is unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
lyrathorpe merged commit 9bc67eb829 into main 2026-06-09 21:35:09 +01:00
lyrathorpe deleted branch feat/t400-and-macpro31-hosts 2026-06-09 21:35:10 +01:00
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