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  • kitty is not installed any more A fresh box was getting three terminals and opening one of them. kitty comes off the base set and the ISO in syn-install 0.1.0-100 — one `synpkg install kitty` puts it back, every fallback chain still names it, and the installer still writes its palette, so an older machine is unaffected. Also: foot's reason for being there changed when kitty left, and the theming line named the wrong terminal.

    @velle999 velle999 committed Aug 27, 2026
  • The terminal, the television, and an installer where everything is optional Two subjects had shipped and reached NO page in 32: syntty, the default terminal since synui 0.1.0-359, and big screen mode. Both now have one. New pages: - Terminal — why it links no GL (a GL context is the one thing install media cannot count on, and a live session with no prompt is a rescue disk that cannot rescue anything), the keys the window keeps, why a paste is the dangerous direction, the config file, following the desktop theme, OSC 133, and what happened to kitty. - Big Screen — what is on it, stepping aside versus closing, music sources and the fact that YouTube Music needs no account to PLAY (signing in is a browser, and it is for browsing), the visualizer chord, words-on-a-pipe rather than synthetic keys, and fitting an old game to the screen. Installation gains the whole selection story: Custom is every package now, including the eleven that used to be installed whatever you answered; the four dependency rules that turn one back on and say so; the five software pages; and the gap they close, which is that an installed system arrived with no web browser unless Full happened to pull one in as a dependency. The-Desktop gains thirteen themes with their synuirc tokens, the clear bar and where its ink comes from, desktop-wide text size, screens (extend/mirror/ external and why mirror forces a shared resolution), screen audio off the ALSA ELD rather than the sink name, the start menu's filtering, and the screensaver and Do Not Disturb. Also: Gaming links to Big Screen and documents `fit` and `map learn`; Commands gains syntty and the new syn-arcade verbs; Keybindings marks the gaming keys as defaults on a fresh install and corrects the theme, display and screensaver rows; Files documents the sidebar toggle, the progress reporting and the 147x copy fix; Software the news gate and the kernel staged for boot; Updating the single password and the two-apply rule for a brand-new component; Troubleshooting five user-facing symptoms; Cutting an ISO Release the preflight script; Development Notes five lessons. Both link checkers pass, and every cross-page anchor resolves. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

    @velle999 velle999 committed Aug 17, 2026