Control Center

The Control Center is a single-card anchored Quickshell menu for launching applications, panel settings, system health, quick actions, appearance settings, power management, and keybind discovery.

Open: Super + F1, or run dwm-controlcenter from a terminal.

The popup opens from the panel logo. Applications, Power, Settings, System Health, Keybinds, and System Info are available directly from the main menu. Bar Widgets, Quick Actions, Appearance, and Power Settings replace the menu contents in the same card and provide a Back control. Press Esc or click outside the card to close it from any page.

The Utilities section opens the unified Settings application directly. Phase 1 Settings is a read-only capability overview with section search and keyboard/mouse navigation. It can also be opened with dwm-settings open.

Network Popover

The panel network indicator opens a Quickshell network popover. It shows active NetworkManager connections, scans visible Wi-Fi networks, and connects to open or WPA personal networks directly. Successful Wi-Fi connections are saved as NetworkManager profiles, so they reconnect normally in later sessions.

Hidden SSIDs and enterprise Wi-Fi are handled through the optional nm-connection-editor fallback when it is installed.

Bluetooth Popover

The panel Bluetooth indicator opens a compact device manager. It can power the adapter on or off, scan for devices, pair and trust a new device, connect a paired device, and disconnect a connected device through bluetoothctl.

Panel Widgets

The Bar Widgets page can show or hide the workspace, volume, Bluetooth, network, and power widgets for the current Quickshell session. The redesigned panel retains the active-window title, status segments, and system tray, and shows all nine dwm tags (workspaces). Hovering icon-only panel controls displays a text tooltip.

The panel, popovers, and control-center cards use fully opaque colors. Their palette follows the active theme in themes.toml and updates when that file is changed.

Modules

System Health

System Health opens as a separate full-screen dashboard on the current monitor. It starts two read-only scans: session checks run immediately, and a privileged scan completes current-boot journal, kernel, system-service, and drive checks. If cached or NOPASSWD sudo access is available, the scan runs without a prompt. Otherwise the running polkit agent requests graphical authorization. Cancelling the prompt leaves a partial report and marks its coverage as incomplete.

The dashboard groups checks into:

• Boot and kernel errors from journalctl, with dmesg as a fallback
• Failed user and system services, one service per row
• Memory, pressure, load, swap, filesystem space, and inode use
• Local routing, resolver, and NetworkManager state
• X11, D-Bus, dwm, Quickshell, Picom, audio, and managed configuration
• Required commands, libraries, terminals, and package-database consistency
• Available battery, thermal, and SMART drive-health data

Use Issues Only to hide passing checks. Expand any card to see bounded evidence; the dashboard counts the complete matching log set even when only a sample is displayed. It does not contact an external service to test Internet connectivity and does not scan previous boots.

Boot-journal and kernel-error cards with matching entries include Copy and Export. Copy sends the card’s readable bounded evidence to the X11 clipboard with xclip. Export saves the same content in the user’s home directory as a private timestamped file, such as boot2026-07-09-143000.txt or kernel-errors2026-07-09-143000.txt. Existing files are never overwritten.

Repair buttons always require confirmation. Each failed service row offers Start, Stop, Restart, Disable, and Enable. User units are managed with systemctl --user; system units request administrator authorization through polkit. An action is accepted only while that exact service remains failed. The dashboard can also restart known desktop/audio components, launch the interactive dependency installer, restart NetworkManager or Bluetooth, and repair the detected time-synchronization provider.

Installing the health helper in a root-owned system path remains recommended:

sudo make install-system

The managed copy under ~/.local/share/dwm-titus is never elevated itself. If the installed helper is unavailable, cached or NOPASSWD sudo can still run the validated root-owned system commands. Polkit authorization requires the root-owned installed helper.

Quick Actions

Appearance

Power Settings

The Power Settings card retains the existing persisted screen-DPMS and auto-lock controls. Each feature can be enabled or disabled and assigned a 5-minute, 10-minute, 15-minute, 30-minute, or 1-hour timeout.

Keybind Viewer

Displays all bindings from hotkeys.toml in a searchable Quickshell list. Same as pressing Super + /.

Running from Terminal

dwm-controlcenter

The script is a compatibility wrapper around the Quickshell IPC target:

quickshell ipc --path "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/dwm-titus/config/quickshell/shell.qml" call controlcenter toggle

Open or refresh System Health directly through its IPC target:

quickshell ipc --path "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/quickshell/shell.qml" call systemhealth open
quickshell ipc --path "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/quickshell/shell.qml" call systemhealth refresh

The diagnostic helper can also produce its structured snapshot in a terminal:

dwm-system-health scan-user