shell.conf

# ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
# │  NotchShell                                                   │
# │  This file is the whole config. Save it and the running       │
# │  shell picks it up — no restart.                              │
# │                                                               │
# │  Every line below is a default: delete one and nothing        │
# │  changes. Get one wrong and the shell keeps the default       │
# │  rather than breaking.                                        │
# └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘


# ── look ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
look {
    # auto follows the wallpaper: a bright picture gives a light shell.
    #   auto | dark | light
    theme = auto

    # auto picks the most colourful shade out of the wallpaper.
    #   auto | #7aa2f7
    accent = auto

    # How round everything is, as one decision.
    #   sharp | soft | round   (or a number, 0 = square, 2 = very round)
    rounding = soft

    font = Inter
    mono_font = JetBrains Mono
}


# ── the notch ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
# The black lip that comes out of the top bezel on hover.
notch {
    width = 172
    height = 34

    # Seconds a status — volume, workspace, keyboard layout — stays out.
    status_time = 1.7
}


# ── the Command Center ──────────────────────────────────────────
# The panel the notch turns into when you pull it down.
panel {
    width = 500

    # Multiplies every animation in the shell. Lower is quicker:
    # 0.5 is twice as fast, 2 is half speed.
    animation_speed = 1.0
}


# ── the launcher ────────────────────────────────────────────────
launcher {
    width = 640

    # Visible rows. Both the app list and the wallpaper picker are always
    # this tall, so tabbing between them never resizes the sheet.
    rows = 7

    # Applications to keep out of the list, comma separated. Matches either
    # the .desktop id or the visible name, case-insensitively; a trailing
    # star hides a whole family:
    #
    #   hidden_apps = Avahi *, htop, cmake
    hidden_apps =
}


# ── your machine ────────────────────────────────────────────────
# The only block that touches the outside world. If something in the UI
# does nothing on a fresh install, look here first.
system {
    # How an app that asks for a terminal gets one.
    terminal = kitty -e

    # Where the wallpaper picker looks, relative to your home directory.
    wallpapers = Pictures/Wallpapers

    # Your keyboard layouts, in the order Hyprland lists them, written the
    # way the notch should show them.
    keyboard_layouts = en, ru

    # Vanilla Hyprland takes plain dispatchers; a Lua-configured one (the
    # hyprglass plugin) wants Lua expressions. auto tries both once at
    # startup and keeps whichever answers.
    #   auto | native | lua
    hyprland_dispatch = auto

    # Setting a wallpaper is two jobs: putting the picture up, and
    # recolouring the shell from it. Both are optional overrides — the
    # defaults are shown. In them, %f is the image and %x / %y are where on
    # screen you clicked, so the new picture grows out of the thumbnail.
    #
    #   wallpaper_command = swww img %f --resize crop --transition-type grow --transition-pos %x,%y --transition-duration 1.1 --transition-fps 60
    #   palette_command   = wal --backend schemer2 -n -i %f
    #
    # Set palette_command to nothing to keep a fixed palette and only ever
    # change the picture.
}