diff --git a/bin/rice-switch b/bin/rice-switch
index f96f542..88d72e5 100755
--- a/bin/rice-switch
+++ b/bin/rice-switch
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ gui_menu() {
     current="$(current_rice)"
 
     local rice_names=() plain_rows="" rofi_rows="" active=""
+    local gutter_on='<span font="JetBrainsMono Nerd Font 8" alpha="80%">●  </span>'
+    # alpha 1%: Pango's alpha range starts at 1, so 0% is not a valid value
+    local gutter_off='<span font="JetBrainsMono Nerd Font 8" alpha="1%">●  </span>'
     for d in "$DOTFILES_DIR"/rices/*/; do
         [[ -d "$d" ]] || continue
         local rname title subtitle
@@ -103,8 +106,13 @@ gui_menu() {
         [[ "$rname" == "$current" ]] && active="${#rice_names[@]}"
         rice_names+=("$rname")
         plain_rows+="$title${subtitle:+ — $subtitle}"$'\n'
-        rofi_rows+="<span weight=\"600\">$(markup_escape "$title")</span>"
-        [[ -n "$subtitle" ]] && rofi_rows+=$'\n'"<span size=\"small\" alpha=\"55%\">$(markup_escape "$subtitle")</span>"
+        # A leading column holds a dot for the current rice. Both lines start
+        # with the same monospace glyph (invisible where unused), so the name
+        # and the subtitle stay aligned whatever the proportional font does.
+        local dot="$gutter_off"
+        [[ "$rname" == "$current" ]] && dot="$gutter_on"
+        rofi_rows+="$dot<span weight=\"600\">$(markup_escape "$title")</span>"
+        [[ -n "$subtitle" ]] && rofi_rows+=$'\n'"$gutter_off<span size=\"small\" alpha=\"55%\">$(markup_escape "$subtitle")</span>"
         rofi_rows+=$'\x1f'
     done
 
@@ -121,7 +129,7 @@ gui_menu() {
         # separated by \x1f instead of newlines
         local args=(-dmenu -i -no-custom -format i -markup-rows -sep $'\x1f' -eh 2
             -l "${#rice_names[@]}" -p "󰍉" -theme "$theme"
-            -mesg "Current: $(markup_escape "$current")   ·   ↵ switch and log out   ·   esc cancel")
+            -mesg "Switching logs you out   ·   ↵ switch   ·   esc cancel")
         [[ -n "$active" ]] && args+=(-a "$active" -selected-row "$active")
         choice=$(printf '%s' "$rofi_rows" | rofi "${args[@]}") || return 0
     elif command -v fuzzel >/dev/null 2>&1; then
diff --git a/common/rofi/rice-switch.rasi b/common/rofi/rice-switch.rasi
index eff7133..f464175 100644
--- a/common/rofi/rice-switch.rasi
+++ b/common/rofi/rice-switch.rasi
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-/* Rice switcher (bin/rice-switch): frosted panel in the style of macOS Spotlight.
- * Translucent enough for the compositor's blur, opaque enough to read without it.
- * Only the accent comes from the palette (colors.rasi). */
-@import "colors.rasi"
+/* Rice switcher (bin/rice-switch): a frosted row list in the style of macOS.
+ * Neutral glass on purpose; translucent enough for the compositor's blur and
+ * opaque enough to read without it. */
 
 configuration {
     show-icons: false;
@@ -11,15 +10,15 @@ configuration {
 }
 
 * {
-    font: "Inter 11";
+    font: "Inter 10.5";
 
-    glass: rgba(28, 28, 32, 70%);
-    stroke: rgba(255, 255, 255, 13%);
+    glass: rgba(30, 30, 34, 66%);
+    stroke: rgba(255, 255, 255, 14%);
     hairline: rgba(255, 255, 255, 7%);
+    field: rgba(255, 255, 255, 8%);
     text: rgba(255, 255, 255, 92%);
-    text-dim: rgba(235, 235, 245, 50%);
+    text-dim: rgba(235, 235, 245, 52%);
     hover: rgba(255, 255, 255, 10%);
-    accent: @selected-fg;
 
     background-color: transparent;
     text-color: @text;
@@ -29,36 +28,54 @@ window {
     transparency: "real";
     location: center;
     anchor: center;
-    width: 520px;
-    padding: 8px;
+    width: 540px;
+    padding: 20px 14px 14px 14px;
     border: 1px;
     border-color: @stroke;
-    border-radius: 18px;
+    border-radius: 24px;
     background-color: @glass;
 }
 
 mainbox {
-    spacing: 6px;
-    children: [ "inputbar", "listview", "message" ];
+    spacing: 12px;
+    children: [ "header", "listview", "message" ];
+}
+
+header {
+    orientation: horizontal;
+    expand: false;
+    spacing: 16px;
+    padding: 0 6px;
+    children: [ "textbox-title", "inputbar" ];
+}
+
+textbox-title {
+    expand: true;
+    str: "Switch Desktop";
+    font: "Inter Display Semi-Bold 16";
+    vertical-align: 0.5;
+    horizontal-align: 0.0;
+    text-color: @text;
 }
 
 inputbar {
-    padding: 10px 12px 12px 12px;
-    spacing: 12px;
-    border: 0 0 1px 0;
-    border-color: @hairline;
+    expand: false;
+    width: 200px;
+    padding: 7px 12px;
+    spacing: 8px;
+    border-radius: 10px;
+    background-color: @field;
     children: [ "prompt", "entry" ];
 }
 
 prompt {
-    font: "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font 15";
+    font: "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font 11";
     text-color: @text-dim;
     vertical-align: 0.5;
 }
 
 entry {
-    font: "Inter Display 15";
-    placeholder: "Switch rice";
+    placeholder: "Search";
     placeholder-color: @text-dim;
     cursor: text;
     vertical-align: 0.5;
@@ -71,12 +88,14 @@ listview {
     cycle: true;
     scrollbar: false;
     spacing: 2px;
-    padding: 2px 0;
+    padding: 8px 0 0 0;
+    border: 1px 0 0 0;
+    border-color: @hairline;
 }
 
 element {
-    padding: 8px 12px;
-    border-radius: 11px;
+    padding: 9px 14px;
+    border-radius: 12px;
     cursor: pointer;
 }
 
@@ -88,22 +107,19 @@ element selected.active {
 element-text {
     text-color: inherit;
     vertical-align: 0.5;
+    highlight: bold;
     cursor: pointer;
 }
 
-element normal.active,
-element selected.active,
-element alternate.active {
-    text-color: @accent;
-}
-
 message {
-    padding: 8px 12px 4px 12px;
+    padding: 10px 0 2px 0;
     border: 1px 0 0 0;
     border-color: @hairline;
 }
 
+/* the footer; textbox-title above sets its own colour and alignment */
 textbox {
-    font: "Inter 9.5";
+    font: "Inter 9";
     text-color: @text-dim;
+    horizontal-align: 0.5;
 }
diff --git a/tests/rice-switch.sh b/tests/rice-switch.sh
index c5f5282..cec025a 100755
--- a/tests/rice-switch.sh
+++ b/tests/rice-switch.sh
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 # 3. A chosen row still reaches the switch.
 # 4. Empty or path-like rice names are rejected.
 # 5. Menu content: one two-line row per rice (DISPLAY_NAME, then COMPOSITOR ·
-#    SHELL_NAME), the current rice marked active, an out-of-range index
-#    ignored, theme fallback.
+#    SHELL_NAME), a dot and the active mark on the current rice, an
+#    out-of-range index ignored, theme fallback.
 set -euo pipefail
 
 REPO="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ rices="$(find "$REPO/rices" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l)"
 [[ "$rows" -eq "$rices" ]] || fail "expected $rices rows, got $rows"
 grep -qF '<span weight="600">end4</span>' "$TMP/rofi.stdin" || fail "end4 row has no plain title: $(cat "$TMP/rofi.stdin")"
 grep -qF '>Hyprland · end4-pC Material 3</span>' "$TMP/rofi.stdin" || fail "end4 row has no subtitle"
+[[ "$(grep -o 'alpha="80%">●' "$TMP/rofi.stdin" | wc -l)" -eq 1 ]] || fail "expected one visible dot, for the current rice"
+grep -qF 'alpha="80%">●  </span><span weight="600">end4</span>' "$TMP/rofi.stdin" || fail "the dot is not on the end4 row"
 end4_index="$(find "$REPO/rices" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '%f\n' | LC_ALL=C sort | grep -nx end4 | cut -d: -f1)"
 grep -A1 -x -- '-a' "$TMP/rofi.args" | tail -n1 | grep -qx "$((end4_index - 1))" || fail "current rice not marked active: $(cat "$TMP/rofi.args")"
 grep -A1 -x -- '-theme' "$TMP/rofi.args" | tail -n1 | grep -q 'rice-switch.rasi$' || fail "rice-switch.rasi not used"