A machine without a GPU, like most VMs, renders through llvmpipe on the
CPU, where every animated frame and every translucent window costs. In a
VM, opening and closing a terminal took ~5s of CPU; a panel ~3.4s.
omarchy toggle animations (also under Toggle > Animations) places a Hyprland
flag that turns off animations, blur and shadows and makes windows opaque.
The shell follows Hyprland's animations:enabled, rereading it on every
config reload: its one-shot animations run for Style.duration(ms), which
is then 0, and its spinners, pulses and title marquee hold still. A new
install in a VM starts with the flag in place.
Measured in the ISO test VM (llvmpipe), CPU per interaction:
terminal open+close 5000ms -> 481ms, workspace switch 1670ms -> 409ms,
audio panel 3446ms -> 796ms, volume OSD 2324ms -> 584ms, menu 2028ms ->
1241ms.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wide content rows (slider rows in audio / monitor panels) opted out of
the cursor fill by setting fill: "transparent" on their CursorSurface,
which left them with no cursor visual at all — j/k landed there
silently with no way to know what was selected.
Add an `outline: bool` flag to CursorSurface. When true, hasCursor
paints an accent border (Style.focusBorderColor at
Style.focusBorderWidth) instead of a fill, leaving the row's chrome
fully visible underneath. Use for slider rows where a fill would
obscure the track.
Audio output / input slider rows and the monitor brightness row opt
in. The dev gallery's slider section replaces its bespoke Rectangle
wrapper with the same CursorSurface { outline: true }, so what the
gallery documents is what the panels ship.
