v26.11

HakuSpace v26.11 - Hikai Update

This release focuses on making Hikai a more complete and reliable Quickshell desktop experience, while keeping Classic available.

Highlights

• More integrated Hikai shell surfaces, including HakuMenu, taskbar, dashboard and settings.
• Native wallpaper and video playback options.
• Task Manager, image editor, window navigation and native lock/idle controls.
• Improved light/dark theming and personalization.

Fixes

• Safer updates and configuration migration.
• UI interaction, focus and shell transition improvements.

Upgrade

Run ./update.sh, then ./scripts/migrate.sh --audit and ./doctor.sh.

Arch Linux remains the primary supported platform. Classic mode is still available.

v26.10-1

What's Changed

• Lively wallpaper resume: video wallpapers are now restored automatically at login via the new wallpaper_resume.sh (Hyprland, Niri, Mango, Labwc)
• Random wallpaper: random_wallpaper.sh now cycles lively wallpapers too, picking videos while mpvpaper is running
• Accent color: dark colors are now brightened to a minimum luminance instead of falling back to white
• Edge Trigger: swapped the top and bottom edges, so top opens hakumenu and bottom opens wallpaper select
• Kill Lively Wallpaper: now restores the static wallpaper and accent color
• Wallpaper startup: smarter daemon startup depending on the last wallpaper type
• Taskbar: better Thunar icon
• Theme menu: removed the redundant Change Lively Wallpaper entry and fixed Kill Lively Wallpaper

Full Changelog: v26.09-2...v26.10-1

v26.09-2

What's Changed

• Edge Trigger (new): hover a screen edge to open Rofi/SwayNC menus (wallpaper select, Haku Menu, shutdown, notifications). Menus auto-close when the mouse leaves their safe zone. Dwell time, cooldown and edge length are configurable.
• Haku Shell Mode (new): one toggle for Rounded Screen (dynamic), Cava (dynamic), Opaque Theme and Edge Trigger.
• Opaque Theme (new): solid black panels for Waybar, Rofi, SwayNC, GTK and Kitty.
• Dynamic exclusive zone: Rounded Screen and Cava now respect other panels like Waybar. Cava also gets a Top (overlay) mode and a color switch.
• Rofi: unified static and live wallpaper selector, new vertical shutdown menu, improved themes, keybinds and mouse binds, and a slide animation.
• Hyprland: updated border and rounding style, fixed VS Code window rules (also on Niri and Mango), fixed the hypridle source.
• SwayNC: redesigned control center, with a Haku Shell toggle replacing the taskbar button.
• Hyprlock: custom top label, bottom label and placeholder via ~/hakucfg/config/hyprlock.conf.
• Utilities: new fix_icon_theme.sh, Waybar manual toggle, Taskbar icon and reload fixes.
• Breaking: GEN_HORI_OPTS and GEN_VERT_OPTS are renamed to GEN_WIDE_OPTS and GEN_BOX_OPTS. Update ~/hakucfg/setting.sh if you overrode them.
• Docs: Edge Trigger, Opaque Theme and NixOS integration docs, plus a Fedora guide fix.

Full Changelog: v26.09-1...v26.09-2

v26.09-1

What's Changed?

New Features & Major Updates

• Migrated configuration management to a flexible symlink-based deployment mechanism.
• Desktop Icons: Completed the desktop icons application, adding an auto-arrange feature and interactive options.
• Taskbar: Removed the old dockbar and replaced it with a brand new taskbar implementation.
• Rounded Screen: Introduced a new feature to add aesthetic rounded corners to your screen.
• Shortcut Generator: Added a script and a Rofi menu to easily generate and select application shortcuts.
• Documentation: Added comprehensive documentation for core scripts, libraries, and mini-apps.

Improvements & Fixes

• Accent Color Engine: Enhanced dark color detection using WCAG luminance for smarter color generation.
• Waybar: Cleaned up unused code and added a linear-gradient background for the left layout.
• Hyprland: Tweaked special workspace animations and improved vibrancy blur settings.
• System Scripts: Optimized doctor.sh, install.sh, update.sh, and clean.sh (added cleanup support for other package managers).
• Fish Shell: Improved shell abbreviations for a better command-line workflow.
• Icon Handling: Enhanced cache handling and theme detection for taskbar application icons.
• Menu Logic: Removed disown from spawn functions for better underlying process management.
• Styling: Set the default visual base style to use rounding and gaps.

Full Changelog: v2.3.2...v26.09-1

v2.3.2

What's Changed?

• Refactor Rofi: improved the interface, adding 3 new themes and 1 old theme (old but gold):
  • legacy: old, minimal.
  • line: cleaner, more modern, with some lines (default).
  • tablet: horizontal, includes wallpaper, designed for relaxation.
  • television: vertical, includes wallpaper, optimized for ultra-wide wallpapers.
• Hyprland changes: decoration now defaults to gap = 0, and window animations use slide for a minimal, focused experience. Press SUPER + F1 to toggle centered focus mode; gaps_out will increase to 80 if you want a broader view of the workspace.
• Fish shell configuration has been added to hakucfg, allowing you to customize your shell as desired.
• Minor Waybar changes: the default theme is now top (the old full theme), and the old top theme has been renamed to legacy.
• Changes to the HakuMenu in the Theme tab: the Change Waybar/Rofi theme options have been moved into Change Theme.
• Updated setting.sh to version v2.3.2.

Rofi with tablet theme:

Full Changelog: v2.3.1...v2.3.2

v2.3.1

What's Changed?

Something new:

• Refactor hakuspace-control, remove it and use hakucfg instead: improve structure, rename to become more professional.
• Improve Accent Color with 4 mode: vivid, dominant, brightest and saturated color.
• Improve default app (browser, file manager): use xdg-open to manage.
• Improve full layout Waybar.
• Improve Cava Underbar feature: color based on accent color.
• Improve scripts.

Something change:

• Keybinding: add more keybinding, Niri use SUPER + T to toggle Cava Underbar.
• New look and feel for Hyprland.
• State files: now stored in ~/.local/state/hakuspace

Remove the old hakuspace-control because they are no use now, you should move your config to the new one `~/hakucfg before remove them:

rm -rf ~/hakuspace-control

Remove the old state files:

rm -rf ~/.local/state/haku_theme

Waybar full layout with the new Hyprland's look:

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.3.1

v2.3.0

What's Changed?

Something new:

• Update main_setting.sh from v2.2.2 to version 2.3.0
• Added customizable Hypridle settings through ~/hakuspace-control/hypridle.conf.
• Renamed cava-layer.py to cava_layer.py.
• Simplified wallpaper and thumbnail path handling.

Remove this directory, because it's no use now:

rm -rf ~/Videos/Wallpapers/Preview

Refactor repository:

• Restructured configuration sources under src/home/.
• Simplified and fixed install.sh and update.sh deployment paths.
• Added automatic backups under ~/.backup/ before configuration changes.
• Added rollback.sh to restore previous HakuSpace configurations safely.
• Rollback preserves unrelated files and user-owned once-only configurations.
• Added comprehensive architecture and dotfiles copy-management documentation.
• Added Vietnamese translations for the installation and architecture guides.
• Updated README installation, rollback, NixOS, and keybinding instructions.

The repository now uses the following source layout:

• src/home/.config/ for application and window-manager configuration.
• src/home/.local/bin/ for managed user scripts.
• src/home/hakuspace-control/ for default user customization templates.
• src/packages/ for package manifests.

HakuSpace continues to use regular copied files rather than symbolic links or Home Manager.

Full Changelog: v2.2.6...v2.3.0

v2.2.6

What's Changed?

• New Waybar style: Island!
• Refactor Cava Underbar: now is GTK layer app, so can support all WM!
• Enhanced: record.sh, lock.sh.

Cava-layer (Cava underbar) needs vte to work properly:

sudo pacman -S vte3

Full Changelog: v2.2.5...v2.2.6

v2.2.5

What's Changed?

• Lively Wallpaper auto-gen thumnail, all you want to use is put your video in ~/Videos/Wallpapers.
• Fix: remove static set mouse cursor.
• Fix: dpms hyprland.

Full Changelog: v2.2.4...v2.2.5

v2.2.4

What's Changed?

• Niri and Mango now have colored borders based on the accent color.
• Shifted the dotfiles style toward a squarer design instead of the old rounded corners.
• Upgraded the Thunar style to make it look cleaner and better :).
• Updated system idle behavior using hypridle and the idle_inhibit.sh script (removed sway-audio-idle-inhibit).
• Updated SwayNC: styling adjustments and updated several buttons.
• Updated the Starship prompt style.
• Fixed NixOS issue: stopped using nix-shell to run Python scripts due to high execution delay.

Full Changelog: v2.2.3...v2.2.4