feat(wayland): replace session-locker, wallpaper, and menu with portable alternatives#879
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- Add Veila 0.4.2 flake input (Catppuccin theme, native fprintd, MPRIS) - Replace NixOS hyprlock PAM service with programs.veila.enable - Remove hypridle service; idle/lock now handled by Veila's idle daemon - Rewrite Home Manager hyprlock mixin as Veila TOML config + user services - Update keybinds and session scripts (hyprlock → veila lock) Veila uses neutral Wayland standards (ext-idle-notify-v1) instead of Hyprland IPC, supporting future compositor portability. Grace-period unlock (5s no-auth) is intentionally removed; all unlocks now require authentication. Signed-off-by: Martin Wimpress <code@wimpress.io>
Replace the Hyprland-specific hyprpaper daemon with the portable wpaperd wallpaper setter, which uses wlr-layer-shell and works identically across wlroots-based compositors (Sway, Wayfire, niri, river, COSMIC). Preserves per-output image selection (Catppuccin primary, Colorway others), resolution-suffixed assets, and multi-monitor layout. Complements the earlier Veila screen-locker migration. wpaperd natively supports future timed directory rotation without additional configuration. Signed-off-by: Martin Wimpress <code@wimpress.io>
Replace wlogout (GTK3, Hyprland-specific IPC) with wleave (GTK4, standard wlr-layer-shell) to improve portability across Wayland compositors (Sway, niri, Wayfire, COSMIC). Consolidate session invocation into a single `wleave-session` wrapper script. - New wleave mixin with bundled SVG icons, Catppuccin-tinted per-button colours (lock blue, suspend sky, logout yellow, reboot peach, shutdown red) and ascending danger ordering. - XDG_CONFIG_HOME redirection to pkgs.emptyDirectory drops catppuccin gtk.css PRIORITY_USER cascade so wleave's own CSS (PRIORITY_APPLICATION) wins, allowing transparent background with compositor blur. - Wrapper script centralises full invocation: display-aware margins (portrait/ultrawide centering), 5 buttons-per-row, explicit config paths. Reused by waybar session button and fuzzel session menu. - Delete wlogout module and all 12 PNG icon assets. - Update hyprland and wayfire imports to wleave; update waybar and fuzzel session-menu calls to wleave-session. Signed-off-by: Martin Wimpress <code@wimpress.io>
- Make cursor visible and usable (hide_cursor = false) so the user can navigate the lock screen UI while locked; Hyprland provides the pointer via the cursor-shape protocol. - Add per-display wallpaper backgrounds using the same resolution-matched PNG mappings as wpaperd: primary display uses Catppuccin, secondary displays use Colorway. Each [[background.outputs]] block maps an output name to its path; a global fallback covers unregistered outputs. - Set avatar_path in [lock] (the correct LockConfig field, not [visuals.avatar] image_path) so Veila loads ~/.face and caches it; [visuals.avatar] enabled=true then renders it with the theme's positioning and size. These refinements close the usability and visual parity gaps between the original hyprlock and the Veila port. Signed-off-by: Martin Wimpress <code@wimpress.io>
…o-restart - Extract veilaConfig let binding to enable X-Restart-Triggers on config hash - Style password input with FiraCode monospace, blue outline, yellow glyph - Fix avatar image path detection by using store path instead of ~/.face symlink - Add Weather section (Basingstoke, Open-Meteo, Celsius, visuals enbled) - Add Clock font (FiraCode Nerd Font Mono, prevents minute-tick width shift) - Add Date section with "short" format and Work Sans font - Add Now Playing section with Work Sans for artist and title - Gate Battery widget to laptops via host.is.laptop - Enable Caps Lock indicator and disable Eye (show-password toggle) - Pass HOME and XDG_CACHE_HOME to veilad environment for avatar cache resolution Signed-off-by: Martin Wimpress <code@wimpress.io>
…esolution - Set homeMode to 0700 (NixOS secure default) instead of 0755 Greeter (ReGreet 0.3.0) does not read avatar; Veila reads via world-readable store path, so no functional impact on existing consumers. - Update face.png from 96×96 to 512×512 (systemd recommended resolution for avatar assets, no alpha channel) Signed-off-by: Martin Wimpress <code@wimpress.io>
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Requires human review: This PR involves a major refactor of core desktop session components (screen locker, wallpaper manager, session menu) across 32 files with 1003 lines changed, replacing hyprlock, hyprpaper, and wlogout with alternative tools (veila, wpaperd, wleave) and updating systemd services, keybinds,...
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Migrate from Hyprland-specific session components (hyprlock, hyprpaper,
wlogout) to portable, standard-Wayland-protocol equivalents to enable
future compositor swaps (Sway, niri, river, etc.) without losing the
lock/wallpaper/session-menu experience.
Screen locker: hyprlock → Veila
Add veila flake input (pinning nixpkgs). Enable the NixOS
programs.veilamodule and configure the PAM service. Write
~/.config/veila/config.tomlwith Catppuccin bundled theme, per-monitor backgrounds, password input,
avatar from ~/.face, MPRIS now-playing (Sidra), Open-Meteo weather,
battery/caps-lock indicators, and 305s screen-off timeout. Start
veilad.service and veila-idle.service (replacing hypridle); update
Hyprland keybinds ($mod,L and CTRL ALT,L) to call
veila lock.Wallpaper: hyprpaper → wpaperd
Per-output wallpapers via
wlr-layer-shell, configured from noughtydisplay metadata.
Session menu: wlogout → wleave
GTK4 menu with Catppuccin-accented icons and
wlr-layer-shell;shared
wleave-sessionwrapper for waybar and fuzzel; remove wlogoutPNG assets.
Lock keybind chain
Update hypr-session script to call
veila lockinstead of hyprlock;the single change propagates through wlogout, waybar, and wayfire
session UIs.
Security hardening
Tighten home directory permissions to 0700 (NixOS secure default);
bump avatar resolution to 512×512.
Resolves compositor portability goal; visual and feature parity with
previous hyprlock setup preserved throughout.