Noctalia v5.0.1
Noctalia v5 just graduated! v5.0.1 is officially stable. Shoutout to everyone who’s been living on the edge with us through the testing and betas phases, we couldn't have stabilized this without you.
✨ New Features
Calendar
- Local vdir and vdirsyncer calendar account support with live directory monitoring
Bar & Widgets
- Workspaces widget option to hide focus-hint icons
- Bluetooth widget can hide when the adapter is off
- Weather shows apparent temperature
Plugins
- Panel entries can declare their layer-shell layer and floating placement
- Pointer enter/leave/motion callbacks on graph nodes
Window Switcher
- Optional 'Most Recently Used' window order
Wallpaper
- Add the current wallpaper to favorites from the wallpaper panel
Themes & Templates
- Separate theme mode (dark/light) for applications (independent of shell palette)
- Template hooks can run faster/asynchronously
Other
- Hebrew language option
🐛 Notable Fixes
- Wallpaper no longer gets overwritten on the first settings save
- Bluetooth pairing shows DisplayPasskey requests and keeps the card visible until accepted
- Desktop calendar honors configured date/time formats
- Ayu palette colors correction
- Scrollbars scale with UI and expand on hover
- Plugin store stays open while installing; bar tooltips hide while a widget panel is open
- Smart auto-hide bars no longer reveal on workspace switches when configured to stay hidden
- Media OSD announces track changes per player when the track identity changes
- Wayland blur works with wayland-protocols 1.45 and skips fully off-surface regions
- Attached panels with fill sizing can use attached placement
- Notifications stay in history after dismiss; toast hit regions refresh after stalled frames
- Battery health in bar tooltips clamped to 100%; battery percent label uses widget color, not icon color
- Timezone handling improvements; blank clock formats no longer crash the widget
- Dock: no 1px gap on fractional scale, focused app dots highlighted, tooltips cleared on auto-hide
- Control Center home media title ellipsized; media progress label init order fixed
- WebP/VP8X album art decoding for Navidrome-style cover URLs
- Theme
colors_changedfires only when the palette actually changes - Template undo removes only configs Noctalia applied; built-in theme cleanup before removal
- Electron apps follow gtk-theme before color-scheme when applying templates
- Launcher: pinned apps launch on click; input resets on edit only, not on focus
- Clipboard poll wakes for queued orphan adoption
- Screenshot pipe stays enabled on copy/save confirm
- Privacy indicator detects xdg-desktop-portal-wlr screen captures
- PipeWire spectrum mode gated by runtime version; spectrum restore volume separated from media role. Should allow sample rate switching.
- Brightness honors explicit per-output backlight mapping fallback
- Bar widget selection index stays consistent after deletion
- Window switcher pointer cursor on tile hover; virtual grid shows pointer over empty cells
- Hyprland groupbar gradients no longer forced; Mango optional source and screen-off layout preserved
- OSD shows brightness changes from IPC
- Icon theme lookup and desktop-entry scan skip inaccessible directories
- Plugin panels close on a second toggle with the same context
- Dead-zone and widget action command names localized in settings
- Compositor detection prefers Umbriel when present
🔧 Build
- Nix: wrap
gsettings-desktop-schemasso tray icons resolve themed names on non-GNOME setups - User docs now live in-repo under
docs/user