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Changelog

What landed in each version. The full notes, fix by fix, are in CHANGELOG.md on GitHub.

Full changelog Releases on GitHub

To hear about new versions, press Watch → Custom → Releases on the GitHub repo. Lucid also checks for itself once a day and tells you once, in a notification.

Latest v1.20.1 Release notes

Desktop icons, live wallpapers and the Steam fix

A point release on top of Lucid 2: icons on the desktop, bar modules that join into one island, live wallpapers and three new ways to pick a wallpaper, five new widgets, files over Bluetooth, a Startup page, fingerprint unlock, and the fix for Steam opening and closing in a loop. Most of it is once again the work of Ciro Rivera, fifteen pull requests of it.

Fixed

  • Steam no longer opens and closes in a loop
  • Steam gets the right graphics driver
  • A second click on a bar module closes its pop-up

Desktop and bar

  • Icons on the desktop, drawn by your icon theme
  • Cascading right-click menus, quick look and undo
  • Bar modules that join into one island
  • Notched pop-ups
  • A full-width bar, open on hover and auto-hide

Wallpapers

  • Four picker styles: Strip, Pills, Tiles and Bento
  • Transitions you can shape and save
  • Live wallpapers from videos in the wallpaper folder

Devices and windows

  • Send and receive files over Bluetooth
  • A Bluetooth pairing agent
  • Pinned windows and windows asking for attention stand out
  • A display map that lands a drag against a neighbour
  • Display changes on trial

Also new

  • Five new widgets: progress, quick toggles, shortcuts, search and the sun
  • New clock, weather and media faces
  • A GitHub contributions widget
  • Qt and KDE apps follow the theme
  • Open GTK4 apps repaint with the theme
  • A dock that hides only when it is in the way
  • A new prompt and terminal
  • A Startup page for apps at login and environment variables
  • Fingerprint unlock on the lock and login screens

Contributed

To update, pull and run the installer again. Steam still looping before you update? Delete ~/.icons/default/index.theme and start it again.

v1.20 Release notes

Lucid 2

Every surface is redrawn in Material You Expressive on one shared kit of controls, the clock grows into an app, the launcher learns new modes and the control centre's tiles are yours to arrange. On top of that sits a release's worth of new features, twenty-five of its pull requests from Ciro Rivera.

Lucid 2

  • Material You Expressive on one kit of controls
  • Interface size, 75 to 125 %
  • A session screen and a window switcher
  • The lock screen grows out of your desktop
  • Workspaces as shapes
  • The clock is an app
  • Every widget rebuilt, four new ones
  • A widget panel
  • Control centre tiles you arrange
  • A Storage page
  • What's new, in the shell

Sounds

  • Lucid's own synthesised sounds
  • Eight notification sounds
  • System sounds for devices, the charger and the camera
  • Tiny ticks for your own keys

Settings

  • Search every setting
  • Windows and Input pages for Hyprland
  • Corner rounding
  • Colours and Palettes pages

Bar and launcher

  • Arrange the bar from Settings
  • Privacy, Power and Active window modules
  • Looks for every module
  • A bar on every display
  • One search for windows, app actions and power
  • Emoji, web and run prefixes

Also new

  • Night light
  • A preview card after each capture
  • Share Wi-Fi as a QR code
  • Workspaces of your own
  • A clipboard preview pane

Contributed

Performance

  • About 150 MB less memory at rest
  • An idle bar no longer redraws
  • No five-second freeze while a window resizes

To update, pull and run the installer again. It leaves your keybinds alone, so add Super+Esc (the session screen) and Ctrl+Alt+Tab (the window switcher) under Settings → Keybinds.

v1.10.5 Release notes

The shell starts on login again

After a restart, the wallpaper came back but the bar, the dock and the widgets did not, and running the installer again was the only way to get them back. The line that starts the shell on login opened with [ -x … ], and Hyprland reads a command that opens with [...] as exec rules, like [workspace 2] kitty, so it ran nothing, silently. It uses test -x now. Found by @ciroenrique4-eng.

To update, pull and run the installer again. It replaces ~/.config/hypr/modules/autostart.lua with the fixed one.

v1.1.0 Release notes

Lock screen, polkit, accounts and light mode

Everything the shell asks you for, it now asks for itself: a lock screen that checks your password through PAM, the administrator prompt for the whole machine, the accounts on it, and a login screen wearing the same palette. Around that, a notification centre that groups and replies, clipboard history in the launcher, a keyboard you can type with when there isn't one, and a light mode that is built rather than inverted.

Lock screen

  • Rebuilt from scratch, Material You style
  • Authenticates through PAM
  • Refusals count down against faillock
  • A Caps Lock badge and a caret you can steer
  • Power actions ask first

Authentication

  • Lucid is the session's polkit agent
  • The dialog says what is being asked
  • It shows whose password it wants

Users and accounts

  • Manage every account on the machine
  • Passwords, pictures and groups
  • Account pictures keep a history

Notifications

  • The notification centre is rebuilt
  • Grouped by application
  • Reply without leaving what you're doing
  • Progress for transfers
  • Popups stack under the bar

Control centre

  • Audio devices switch from the System pill
  • A Caffeine tile

Also new

  • Clipboard history in the launcher, images too
  • An on-screen keyboard that never steals focus
  • Light mode, with apps following the shell
  • An SDDM login screen
  • Redrawn volume and brightness popups

Contributed

Performance

  • Animations run at the screen's refresh rate on NVIDIA
v1.0.5

Multiple displays, properly

The shell sits where you put it, every screen is configurable from the settings app, and a display coming and going no longer takes the bar with it. Plus scratchpad workspaces on their own keys, glass you can aim at one app at a time, widget arrangements you can save, and Lucid telling you when there is a new version.

Displays

  • A Displays page for every screen
  • Arrange displays by dragging
  • Mirror a display, or switch it off
  • Pin the shell to one display
  • The bar and dock on displays of their own

Wallpaper

  • Wallpapers ship with Lucid
  • A wallpaper or a fit per display

Glass

  • Glass is its own page
  • One slider, three surfaces
  • Kitty follows the slider
  • Apps frosted one at a time

Special workspaces

  • Music, comms, to-do and system monitor
  • Settings → Workspaces

Update check

  • Lucid says when a new version is out
  • Settings → About shows what it found
v1.0.0

The first stable release

Lucid stops being a bar and a dock and becomes a whole desktop: cards you place on the wallpaper, a settings app that owns your network, Bluetooth, phone, idle ladder and desktop environment, and a theming layer that reaches well past the shell.

Desktop widgets

  • Ten kinds of card, thirty looks between them
  • Snapping, guides and pinning

Settings, reimagined

  • Theme, Widgets, Network and Bluetooth
  • Phone, over KDE Connect
  • Idle, Environment, Notifications, Date & Time

Theming

  • Import a theme straight from a GitHub repo
  • A theme for SDDM

Screenshots

  • Copy text off the screen
  • A colour picker

Bar, dock and desktop

  • Tooltips on the System module
  • Improved dock physics
  • Icon themes follow without a restart
  • Right-click the desktop
  • Toasts
v0.57

The beta, kept as a tag

The last beta stays exactly where it is. Nothing carries over between it and v1.x, which moved enough that a fresh install is worth it.

$ git clone --branch v0.57 https://github.com/Sn3akyy1/lucid.git