# Magic Island: an Amane media widget A Dynamic-Island-style media widget for Amane (Rust Wayland shell library), running on Hyprland. It sits as a small pill at the top centre of the screen and opens into a now-playing card. - **Pill:** cover thumbnail, title, 7 live bars from the shown player's own sound (lows left, highs right, growing up and down from the middle), or a pause sign. With no player open, an idle pill: a music note and "Nothing playing". - **Card:** a still CD of the cover ringed by 40 cava "candles", title and artist, a seekable time bar, previous / play-pause / next. - **Player switcher** ("VIA …" chip): every MPRIS player; picking one pins it, otherwise the island follows whichever plays. - **Output switcher:** moves only the shown player's audio to another device. - **Per-player volume** (scroll the volume chip, click to mute), set on that player's own PulseAudio/PipeWire streams, so it also works for browsers that ignore MPRIS volume. - **Real 10-band equalizer per player** (31 Hz to 16 kHz, ±12 dB): a PipeWire filter-chain per player, with 8 presets (Flat, Bass, Treble, Vocal, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classic). Curves are saved per player. - **Background:** a diagonal gradient in the wallpaper's colours (see Colours); optionally the open card takes the song cover's colours. - **Opening animation:** the pill fades out, the empty shape grows, then the card fades in. Closing runs backwards. Moving the pointer off the open card closes it. - **Every monitor:** each monitor shows the pill. The card opens only on the monitor you click (a keybind opens it on the focused one), and only the focused monitor's pill shows live bars; the others show still bars, which keeps the cost at about one island's. - **Workspace pill:** top left on every monitor, that monitor's Hyprland workspaces as round numbered slots in the island's look. The focused workspace takes the accent colour, the one shown on another monitor a softer accent, empty ones dim. Click one to switch to it. ## Colours The shell takes its colours from the wallpaper through matugen. Skwd-wall v2 runs matugen on every new wallpaper and renders `matugen/amane.colors` into `~/.config/amane/theme`; the shell reads that file twice a second and cross-fades to the new colours. Without the file it keeps its original pink on purple. Register the template in Skwd-wall as a matugen integration: - template: `~/.config/amane/matugen/amane.colors` - output: `~/.config/amane/theme` The Material You scheme type is Skwd-wall's setting (`matugen.schemeType`). `shell.conf` (read live, no restart): ``` cover_colors = false # true: the open media card and equalizer take the song cover's colours as background transition_ms = 400 # how long a colour change cross-fades; 0 switches instantly ``` ## Layout ``` src/main.rs app setup: Fira Code font, the `island` IPC handler, palette from the cover src/island.rs the view: pill, card, ring, equalizer, dropdowns, animation, IPC commands src/sound.rs per-player volume, mute, output and equalizer (pactl, pw-cli, pipewire) src/spectrum.rs the shown player's sound as 24 levels (pw-record | cava) src/art.rs cover download (curl) and the palette file src/workspaces.rs the workspace pill, top left on every monitor src/theme.rs the shell's colours: the matugen theme file, shell.conf, the cross-fade src/parse.rs pure text parsing with unit tests, no amane dependency matugen/ the matugen template (amane.colors), rendered by skwd-wall into ./theme shell.conf settings: cover_colors, transition_ms island-eq saved equalizer curves (a snapshot of ~/.config/amane/island-eq) tools/ remote test driver and fake MPRIS players, see AGENTS.md ``` ## Requirements On the desktop that runs the shell: - the `amane` CLI and Rust toolchain (`amane compile` builds `src/`) - PipeWire with `pipewire-pulse`: `pactl`, `pw-record`, `pw-cli`, `pipewire` (filter-chain module) - `cava`, `curl` - the Fira Code font ## Install and run The shell lives in `~/.config/amane/`. Copy (or clone) this repo's `src/` there, then build and start: ```sh amane compile ~/.cache/amane/project/target/debug/amane-shell ``` The installed CLI on the current desktop is older than the Amane docs: it doesn't save `~/.cache/amane/amane-shell`, so `amane run` has nothing to start. Run the binary above directly. ## Control it ```sh amane ipc call island toggle # also: open, close amane ipc call island next # show the next player amane ipc call island play-pause # play/pause the shown player; the icon flips at once amane ipc call island menu output # open a dropdown: output | player | close amane ipc call island preset Rock # apply an equalizer preset to the shown player amane ipc call island output # move the shown player to a sink (pactl sink name) amane ipc call island status # player= expanded= menu= ``` Example Hyprland keybind: ``` bind = SUPER, M, exec, amane ipc call island toggle ``` ## Runtime files - `~/.config/amane/island-eq`: one line per player identity, `\t\t<10 gains in dB>`. - `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/magic-island/`: downloaded covers, `palette-cover`, `cava.conf`, `eq-.conf`. On tmpfs, gone at logout. - Equalizer nodes are named `magic_island_eq.`. The key is the player's MPRIS bus name without `org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.`, non-alphanumerics as `_` (e.g. `chromium_instance123`). ## Known limits - The time bar moves in 1 s steps (the MPRIS poll rate). - Every slider step starts one `pactl` or `pw-cli` process. - An equalizer keeps running, and keeps that player routed through its last curve, if the shell stops while the player is open. - The candle ring around the CD is still mirrored left against right; the pill's bars are not. - Dropdowns have no keyboard navigation.