A client that updates a notification through replaces_id does not produce a
second onNotification: Quickshell writes the new content onto the Notification
object the shell is already holding. The card draws a snapshot copied out of
that object — deliberately, since a live QObject in a ListModel role becomes a
dangling pointer the moment the server destroys it — so the toast kept showing
the superseded text, and archived it to history when it left the screen. A
Slack thread that updates in place read as stuck.
Every property the card draws is now watched on the notification we hold, and
a change rewrites both the model row and the file the popup was persisted
under. The file name is that popup's identity, so the rewrite lands in place:
a shell restart restores the version last shown, and so does the copy that
reaches history.
The countdown starts over when the content changes. New text arriving a second
before the toast was due to expire deserves a full look, not the remainder of
the clock the text it replaced had nearly run through.
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History was a pair of in-memory lists mirrored into notifications.json, split
into "pending" and "past" by a seen/unseen distinction no surface exposed,
capped at 100, deduped by an id that repeats across server generations, and
pruned by a 15-minute TTL. Replaying it showed five rows drawn from whichever
list happened to hold them.
Every toast already writes a file under ~/.local/state/omarchy/notifications
so it can survive a shell restart. That file is now the history record: when
the popup leaves the screen it moves into notifications/history instead of
being deleted, the newest ten are kept, and showHistory replays exactly what
is in there, including the toasts still on screen when it is asked for. A
notification DND silenced is written straight into the same directory, since
a toast that never showed is the one worth looking back at.
That leaves the models, notifications.json history payload, past pruning, and
the /tmp image cache that existed to keep century-old history thumbnails alive
with nothing to do, so they go.
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* Keep clicking a notification working after a shell restart
Notification actions lived only in the sending process: `-a` appended
`-A default=default`, so notify-send blocked on a D-Bus ActionInvoked signal and
the caller ran the command when it arrived. Nothing about that reached disk, so a
restored popup had no action to run and its sender stayed blocked forever.
Replace `-a` with `--exec <command>`, carried as an `omarchy-exec` hint into the
snapshot's `exec` role. It travels through the popup files and history, and the
shell runs it on click, so restored toasts behave exactly like live ones and the
sender exits immediately.
That drops the scaffolding whose only job was keeping a blocked sender alive: the
first-run invitations lose their `--show` re-entry and two transient units each,
omarchy-migrate-notify loses its transient service, and the screenshot,
recording, download, and taildrop toasts lose their wrapper subshells.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Keep a failed toast from failing the work it announces
Moving these sends out of their backgrounded subshells put a fallible command
on the foreground path, where the `&` used to swallow its exit status. A
notification outage — including the shell restart this branch targets — now
propagates:
- taildrop's receiver dies under `set -e` mid-delivery
- omarchy-capture-screenshot reports failure for a screenshot it already saved
- a completed download exits before scheduling its thumbnail cleanup, leaking
the mktemp file
Announcing is best-effort in all three: the work is already done by the time
the toast goes out.
Also drop the first-run sleep that spaced out the welcome and Wi-Fi toasts.
It compensated for the background notify-send processes this branch removes;
each send now returns only once the server has taken the toast, so sending in
order is enough to stack them newest-on-top.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Stop tying the preview cleanup to the toast's expiry
The shell loads a notification thumbnail into memory when the toast appears and
never re-reads the file, so the preview only has to outlive that load. Deriving
the cleanup delay from the expiry was false precision, and it turned -t into a
variable for no reason: -t is already the helper's expiry setting.
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* Persist on-screen notification popups across shell restarts
Mirror every popup to its own file under
~/.local/state/omarchy/notifications/ for exactly as long as it is on
screen: written when the toast appears, deleted when it expires, is
dismissed, is acted upon, or is replaced via freedesktop replaces_id.
On startup the directory is read back and still-valid popups re-shown,
so toasts survive the restart omarchy-update performs — critical
alerts, which never expire, always make it across.
Restored popups keep ids from the previous server generation, so the
replaces_id cleanup tracks them separately instead of mistaking a
fresh notification's reused id for a replacement, and the startup
restore only discards a persisted file when a live row with a
different timestamp has superseded it. Files are read back with awk
so a torn write can't glue itself onto the next file and take a valid
popup down with it.
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* Close the remaining cross-generation id collisions in popup persistence
Notification ids restart from 1 with every server process, so an id
alone never identifies a notification across a shell restart. The
first round of fixes guarded row removal, but review (and a live
repro) showed the same collision biting everywhere else an id was
used on its own:
- Dismissing or clicking a restored toast resolved liveRefs by id and
could dismiss, or fire the action of, an unrelated fresh
notification, and archive its pending row. Restored rows now never
resolve to a live object, and pending rows are matched by id plus
timestamp.
- parsePopupFiles deduped files by id, so a fresh notification reusing
a restored critical alert's id got that alert's file deleted as a
"stale duplicate" on the next restore. Files are never deduped now:
each one is a popup that was on screen, and the rare genuine
leftover from a crash re-shows once and cleans itself up.
- The restore only skips an entry when a live row matches both id and
timestamp (it is that entry); an id-only match shows both toasts
rather than guessing which one to drop.
- A same-millisecond replaces_id update shares its predecessor's
filename; the replacement's file is no longer deleted alongside the
replaced row.
- A restored popup's reset lifetime is persisted as an absolute
deadline, so a second restart judges it by the clock that actually
governs its display instead of dropping it while still on screen.
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Replaying an empty history did nothing at all on screen, which reads as
a dead keybinding rather than an empty log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Use Region { item: popupColumn } instead of manually mirroring the
column's x/y/width/height. It tracks the item's mapped geometry directly,
so it stays correct without assuming the column shares the window's
coordinate space.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The popups used one Wayland layer surface per output sized to their content
(implicitWidth/Height bound to the toast column), so every time a toast was
added or removed the surface resized. During that resize the compositor
briefly scaled a stale buffer, stretching or squishing the cards mid-
transition -- worst with only one or two toasts, where each resize is a
larger relative change.
Make the surface full-screen and fixed, like the OSD overlay, so adding or
removing a toast only changes the content inside it and the surface never
resizes. Mask the input region to the toast column so the otherwise-
invisible full-screen overlay stays click-through.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Model rows stored the live Notification object in a ref role. When the
server destroyed the notification (sender close, DND untrack, dismiss)
the role became a dangling C++ pointer, and the next read segfaulted in
QQmlListModel::data — typically when replaying history over IPC. Track
live notifications in a JS map keyed by originalId instead, cleaned up
on close and untrack, where a stale reference degrades to a catchable
error instead of a crash.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Hyprland gaps_out value (10px out of the box) reads well as a
window-to-window gap but felt cavernous when used as the screen-edge
margin for panels and notifications. Halve it at the source — panels
that anchor via PopupCard.margin, the launcher / clipboard / emojis /
polkit / menu / settings card-width clamps, and the notification popup
margins all read Style.gapsOut, so one tweak moves them in lockstep.
Revert the per-call /2 in the notifications service, since
Style.gapsOut now already encodes the smaller value.
Sit notifications closer to the top and right edges than the default
gapsOut. The bar-height clearance still applies to the top — only the
free gap portion is halved.
