Handoff — 2026-08-07, the day her face went on the glass

Everything below is pushed. Nothing is half-applied. The one thing that is not durable is the phone's binaries — see "The phone is running test installs" at the end, and fix that first if a -Syu is coming.

Read these before touching any of it

docs/tasks/59-her-face-on-the-glass.md (rewritten today — the five bugs in the way, and why each presented as something else), docs/tasks/60-the- multitasking-view.md, docs/DUMP-bugs-2026-08-06.md (items 3/4/5 closed, 7 retracted, 8/9/10 new).

What is on the phone and working

She draws. She is furniture on home, not an app: no zone, no dock entry, no overview card, no frame, her own size, hung from the top of the zone with the room below deliberately left free for what she shares. She takes touch only on her own silhouette, so the home screen underneath still works. She follows a finger anywhere on the panel. Holding her records and sends through the existing STT into the sidebar. Double-tapping her dismisses her; locking the phone sends her away and she stays away. The clock and the quote fade out when she is up.

Also landed: multitasking cards draw; zones mint correctly; the dial records the screen on a hold; layer-surface popups exist at all; move mode can be left; the dock is bigger and its scale is a setting.

The five that cost the most, kept short

The rig drew nothing because of one missing DOM element. live2d.js is the reference's whole bundle, not just Cubism, and it reads #live_talk every frame. Missing, it throws on the first update — after the model and all four textures have loaded. Everything else reads healthy.
--app-id was a no-op. set_prgname after GTK made the surface. The compositor saw souveraine-web; window rules could only match the title.
Claim the GL context after sizing the canvas. Before it, the context is born 300x150, gl.viewport stays there, and she renders as a thumbnail in the bottom-left corner of a full-size buffer.
Multitasking cards were width: 0 — a Column↔loader binding cycle with no search widget to break it. Every other signal read healthy.
Feeds::publish dropped subscribers whose channel was Full, so a fast stream unsubscribed its own reader inside the first burst. An external probe that read faster kept working, which is what made it look like a shell bug.

Traps this session re-learned the hard way

pgrep -f / pkill -f match your own command string. Killed the SSH session and a kitty more than once. Bracket the pattern and make sure the unbracketed form does not also appear later in the same command.
A duplicate signal handler fails the whole QML module and takes the shell into a restart loop. onCanceled already existed on the rail; adding a second is Property value set multiple times.
Quickshell's Socket emits onConnectionStateChanged, not onConnectedChanged. A handler for the wrong one is silent.
Check locked in viewtop's state before diagnosing a capture failure. A session left locked by a test refuses every capture, correctly, and it looks exactly like a broken capture path.
GlobalStates.screenLocked drifts. session lock answered already-locked on a phone in use while logind said LockedHint=no. Gate on screenLockSecure, the compositor's ack.
A greetd restart leaves the phone locked and only the PIN opens it — unlock is deliberately not a verb anything but a human can call. Do not leave it locked and walk away.
scene intent drop clears a stuck window grab in one call. It is the unstick for a phone frozen in move mode. The intent is a bare string ({"op":"scene","intent":"drop"}), not a map.

What is open, honestly

The pill strands a pose (DUMP 8). My cancel-path theory was wrong — onCanceled already handles it. Cause unfound. Casey wants no backing-off state at all: gate the partial slide on speed and length, then commit.
The swipe into multitasking is awkward (TASK-60). Two named suspects, both needing to be watched in motion.
Side panels glitch on the way out (DUMP 9) — keyboard half fixed, visual glitch uncharacterised. The terminal cannot keep its keyboard (DUMP 10); the two are mirror images and probably one focus-handoff bug.
Dock appstacks — the popup fix is committed and unverified on hardware. Layer-surface popups were never composited or hit-tested, which is why tapping a stack did nothing. Needs a finger on it.
Holding her to talk is the wrong affordance. Casey: "holding onto her has a different connotation." It works; it should become explicit controls.
Her states are wired but thin. Nine postures collapse onto two levers — #live_talk and the bundle's head/body hit test. That is all the rig has.
VPN through the state machine — Casey's call: its own session, and it probably wants a settings surface for SSIDs. Do not start it as a side quest, and remember §12: an Action, never a daemon (wiuf-vpn-gate was 652 recycles in 90 minutes).

The rig is the next big thing, and it is a pipeline

Not a repaint. Strip the parts out by name with their exact UV footprints, rebuild by compositing them back at those footprints, and let agents swap components the way they swap outfits — the rebuild half is what makes swapping real. V1 of the look is the face only: shrink the eyes, slim the face with transparency, because Histoire reads as a little girl and not a woman. Wings go holographic. Outfit is fine for now.

Ceiling: parts are paint, silhouette is mesh. Twin-tails and the pose need a new rig, and that is a Cubism 2 → 4/5 change — a different loader, which also replaces the character layer that reads #live_talk.

Assets: ~/Projects/live2d-editing (4 × 1024², palette-indexed, convert to RGBA first). Style reference: ~/Projects/AniAvatar.

The phone is running test installs

/usr/bin/viewtop and /usr/bin/souveraine-web are hand-installed, and the QML lives in /home/casey/souveraine-surfaces. Originals parked at /usr/local/bin/viewtop.prev-r88-package and souveraine-web.prev-r363. A pacman -Syu reverts the binaries. This is souveraine/CLAUDE.md failure mode #4 and it should be closed by building the packages, not by copying again.

Build loop that works: edit on the laptop → scp the changed file to archdev (/home/casey/souveraine-viewtop, /home/casey/souveraine) → checksum it, because another session may be in the same tree → VIEWTOP_AARCH64_SYSROOT= /home/casey/aarch64-sysroot ./scripts/build-cross.sh --release → base64 down, scp up, install -m755. ~/souveraine needs ~/tuie beside it (symlinked to ~/Projects/tuie).

Cross-repo state

souveraine → primary @ 630d691
souveraine-viewtop → main @ 62ec16b
SouveraineOS → main @ (this commit)
smithay fork → souveraine @ 645961c7, pinned; the colour-transform branch was folded in and deleted, and the local [patch] that pointed at /home/casey/smithay-colour is gone — the tree builds from the fork now.
Dead branches removed: public, main, detached-reinit-backup, experimental/session-trust-phase1 (souveraine), public-main, codeberg-publish-tmp (Pixel3Arch). Nothing of value was stranded on any of them — all merges and dead codeberg snapshots. archive/* refs kept.

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