The display now only updates on key-down (the combo grows as you press)
and when the last key is released (the empty payload starts the linger
with the last full combo). Intermediate releases no longer shrink the
display, so the order you let go of a shortcut doesn't matter: Ctrl+Shift+N
stays Ctrl+Shift+N whether Ctrl, Shift, or N goes up first, and the 1s
linger shows the full combo instead of a partial release state. Matches
the keybinding-tutorial use case better than keyviz, which shrinks
key-by-key on spaced releases.
The FileView watcher fires on content changes but not on deletion, so
resuming (rm of the flag) left the panel and the menu stuck paused.
Rewrite the flag with 0 or 1 instead, matching the state-file pattern
that already works.
ToggleSwitch does not flip checked on click — it only emits toggled()
and the caller owns the value. Reading !checked there yielded the
current bound state, so setPaused's guard always early-returned and the
toggle never did anything. Flip !root.paused instead; the checked
binding follows the flag file.
The shell watches every file under ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/ with
inotify (no extension filter) and reloads all plugin code on any change,
so config.json there made every edit tear down and rebuild the panel and
bar widget. Config now lives at ~/.config/omarchy/key-visualizer.json, which
is not watched: edits update the display live. The panel migrates the
old plugin-dir config (values carried over, file removed) on first load
after the update.
Clicking the keyboard glyph now opens a KeyboardPanel popup (the native
bar pattern, e.g. omarchy.audio) instead of toggling pause directly:
Show keys toggle, Mode (all | bindings), and Position (bottom/top/
center). The toggle writes the pause flag and the options write
config.json, both watched by the display panel, so menu and overlay
stay in sync across monitors. Replaces BarWidget.qml with a Panel-based
widget (Panel + BarIconButton + KeyboardPanel).
The panel reads config.json from its plugin folder (seeded with defaults
on first run, hot-reloaded on save): mode (all | bindings — the bindings
mode only shows combos with a modifier, ideal for keybinding tutorials),
position (keyviz-style alignment, bottom-center by default) and margin,
plus the existing lingerMs. Replaces the hardcoded bottom anchors with
x/y computed from position and margin.
A keyboard glyph in the bar (WidgetButton, right section by default)
toggles a pause flag at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/omarchy-key-visualizer.paused that
the panel and every bar widget instance watch, so a click on any monitor
updates all of them. While paused the panel ignores key state and hides;
the button dims. Also exposes pause/resume/toggle over the key-visualizer IPC
target.
Previously the chips cleared the instant the keys were released, so the
120ms hide delay was invisible. Keep the last combo rendered for the
whole linger window and only clear it when the timer fires, so a quick
tap stays readable (keyviz keeps keys for lingerDurationMs, 5s by
default). Default 1000ms, tunable via lingerMs.
The capture script must run inside Hyprland's Lua config, but a plugin
cannot register itself in the user-owned hyprland.lua. On first load the
panel appends a small guarded block that dofiles key-visualizer.lua; Hyprland
auto-reloads its config on save, so install is now just add + enable.
The block is idempotent (marker comment), upgrades older plain dofile
lines, and no-ops when the plugin folder is removed so uninstalling never
breaks the config.
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