Move the look of the desktop to Trigger > Appearance (#14973)

* Move the look of the desktop to Trigger > Appearance

Menu Bar, Battery Percentage, Workspace Layout, Window Gaps, Animations,
and 1-Window Ratio change how the desktop looks rather than switching a
behavior, so they leave Trigger > Toggle for their own menu.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Use the animation icon for Appearance > Animations

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* Open clipboard history from Trigger

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* Test the Trigger > Appearance split and Clipboard History placement

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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Beyond `colors.toml` and hand-written config overrides, a first-party theme can
A theme can pair a still background with a silent intro video using matching filenames: `backgrounds/0-winding-road.webp` and `backgrounds/intros/0-winding-road.mp4`. The video plays automatically at login and when switching to that theme with this background selected. No registration, checksum file or manual setting is needed. Supported video extensions are `mp4`, `m4v`, `mov`, `webm`, `mkv` and `avi`. Intro videos stay inside the nested `intros/` directory so the background picker does not list them as looping wallpapers. An image selected from another directory looks for its intro in that directory's own `intros/`, so a same-named custom image cannot inherit a theme's video.
Aim for a video between five and seven seconds long that opens on its scene setup and ends on the matching still. The shell provides the opening crossfade, so an added fade from black is unnecessary. OWE owns decoding, mute and the handoff back to that image. The theme picker prepares the highlighted theme's remembered intro offscreen, paused at its opening frame. OWE keeps one prepared clip and an idle renderer for up to one minute, then releases them. A theme switch also starts preparation while its templates render; OWE compares the selected video with the prepared clip before resuming it. Older OWE versions use the ordinary startup path. Hyprland and the SDDM greeter use a black compositor background. On a fresh login, the persistent shell host keeps an opaque black cover above the bar and wallpaper until the bar has loaded and OWE has a moving video frame, then fades both in together over 420 ms. Hyprland initializes with a transparent cursor so its visibility polling cannot expose a pointer in the first frames. The temporary Xcursor theme stays private to the compositor; applications inherit the normal cursor environment. The opening fade restores the selected cursor and settings. Shell restarts and a fifteen-second compositor timeout recover a cursor left hidden by an interrupted startup. With intros disabled or unavailable, it waits for the still to be ready instead. A ten-second deadline releases the cover if a missing wallpaper or failed plugin never becomes ready. Ordinary shell restarts preload the selected still alongside the bar without mapping that login cover. Login intros use the Hyprland instance signature, so logging out and back in plays the intro again. The launcher consumes the current session before waiting up to five seconds for OWE. Shell restarts and a daemon starting after that window cannot play a delayed intro. Theme switches synchronize OWE with the selected image and use its first-frame start mode. An interrupted video supplies its currently playing frame as the outgoing snapshot. Rapid selections wait for the previous opening fade to finish before capturing it. Theme replacement and playback wait for the outgoing cover to decode and reach the compositor on every screen. A persistent layer holds that outgoing wallpaper until OWE hides the shell background and reports a ready video with an advancing playback position and no outgoing still transition, then crossfades it over 420 ms while applying the new bar palette. The shell retains its background service and decoded wallpaper while it is hidden, so handing the still back does not recreate them. App retints wait until the opening crossfade completes, with a three-second bound, so they do not compete with its first frames. The compositor reload waits until playback finishes because reloading Hyprland pauses video presentation. A superseded intro skips that reload. Failed playback releases the pending palette, and a newer theme invalidates the older handoff. Refreshing a theme, headless setup, and cycling backgrounds within the same theme do not trigger intros. Toggle > Animations suppresses playback along with the other animations. The `omarchy theme bg intro toggle` command can toggle intros separately.
Aim for a video between five and seven seconds long that opens on its scene setup and ends on the matching still. The shell provides the opening crossfade, so an added fade from black is unnecessary. OWE owns decoding, mute and the handoff back to that image. The theme picker prepares the highlighted theme's remembered intro offscreen, paused at its opening frame. OWE keeps one prepared clip and an idle renderer for up to one minute, then releases them. A theme switch also starts preparation while its templates render; OWE compares the selected video with the prepared clip before resuming it. Older OWE versions use the ordinary startup path. Hyprland and the SDDM greeter use a black compositor background. On a fresh login, the persistent shell host keeps an opaque black cover above the bar and wallpaper until the bar has loaded and OWE has a moving video frame, then fades both in together over 420 ms. Hyprland initializes with a transparent cursor so its visibility polling cannot expose a pointer in the first frames. The temporary Xcursor theme stays private to the compositor; applications inherit the normal cursor environment. The opening fade restores the selected cursor and settings. Shell restarts and a fifteen-second compositor timeout recover a cursor left hidden by an interrupted startup. With intros disabled or unavailable, it waits for the still to be ready instead. A ten-second deadline releases the cover if a missing wallpaper or failed plugin never becomes ready. Ordinary shell restarts preload the selected still alongside the bar without mapping that login cover. Login intros use the Hyprland instance signature, so logging out and back in plays the intro again. The launcher consumes the current session before waiting up to five seconds for OWE. Shell restarts and a daemon starting after that window cannot play a delayed intro. Theme switches synchronize OWE with the selected image and use its first-frame start mode. An interrupted video supplies its currently playing frame as the outgoing snapshot. Rapid selections wait for the previous opening fade to finish before capturing it. Theme replacement and playback wait for the outgoing cover to decode and reach the compositor on every screen. A persistent layer holds that outgoing wallpaper until OWE hides the shell background and reports a ready video with an advancing playback position and no outgoing still transition, then crossfades it over 420 ms while applying the new bar palette. The shell retains its background service and decoded wallpaper while it is hidden, so handing the still back does not recreate them. App retints wait until the opening crossfade completes, with a three-second bound, so they do not compete with its first frames. The compositor reload waits until playback finishes because reloading Hyprland pauses video presentation. A superseded intro skips that reload. Failed playback releases the pending palette, and a newer theme invalidates the older handoff. Refreshing a theme, headless setup, and cycling backgrounds within the same theme do not trigger intros. Appearance > Animations suppresses playback along with the other animations. The `omarchy theme bg intro toggle` command can toggle intros separately.
A theme installed from a git repo is held to a much shorter list; see [What an installed theme may not ship](#what-an-installed-theme-may-not-ship).