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State the background rules without their history
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Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session
https://claude.ai/code/session_01MptwXZ8k65v19rFmdGAyki
Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-08-31 13:57 UTC
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154 154
155 155 ## The desktop background
156 156
157 - **A shop surface printing the console's verbs and the sway keybindings.** Decided
158 - 2026-08-31: this is the permanent default, not a first-boot placeholder that a
159 - picker cycles away from.
157 + **A shop surface printing the console's verbs and the sway keybindings.** The
158 + permanent default, not a first-boot placeholder that a picker cycles away from.
160 159
161 160 The background is a `shop --layer background` surface, output-sized, with
162 161 `KeyboardInteractivity::None` and an empty input region, so it is a panel that
@@ -181,13 +180,14 @@
181 180 swww-daemon &
182 181 swww img ~/Pictures/wallpaper.jpg
183 182
184 - Rejected as the default: a curated public-domain impressionist collection, which
185 - this document specified until 2026-08-31. Nothing was ever built for it, no image
186 - ever shipped, and swww was installed but never started, so dropping it costs an
187 - edit rather than a rollback. It remains a defensible opt-in if a picker verb is
188 - ever wanted, and the sourcing work it named (Met Open Access, Art Institute of
189 - Chicago, Rijksmuseum, National Gallery of Art, all CC0 or open access) is
190 - recorded here for whoever picks that up. It is not on the roadmap.
183 + Rejected as the default: a curated public-domain impressionist collection. The
184 + background is the one surface every user sees without asking, which makes it too
185 + valuable to spend on decoration while the machine documents itself nowhere else.
186 + The collection remains a defensible opt-in if a picker verb is ever wanted, and
187 + the institutions to source it from are the ones that waive reproduction-photo
188 + rights (Met Open Access and the Art Institute of Chicago are CC0, Rijksmuseum
189 + and the National Gallery of Art are open access; Google Arts & Culture is mixed
190 + rights and is a discovery tool, not a source). It is not on the roadmap.
191 191
192 192 Also rejected, as daemons: wpaperd, cosmic-bg (sway compatibility unverified),
193 193 swaybg (C, no cycling or transitions).