denial

Denial 0.6.2

This is a signed x86-64 and AArch64 public-beta release of Denial.

• Source tag: v0.6.2
• Source commit: 3f08a93ec42b9851ebdd73039def1ff12a639858
• Signing fingerprint: AE4108FA5E91E26BE0EE331E0F5B3AD16E023091
• Required packages: denial and denial-flutter-engine
• Optional plugin tools: denial-plugin-manager
• Direct downloads: Arch, Alpine 3.24, Debian-family (Debian 13 / Ubuntu 24.04), and Fedora
• Every direct package has an adjacent detached OpenPGP signature
• APT repository: Debian 13 (trixie) and Ubuntu 24.04 (noble)
• Pacman repository: x86-64 and AArch64
• DNF repository: Fedora 44 x86-64 and AArch64

Added

• Packages for ARM64 (AArch64). The Pacman, APT and DNF repositories carry denial, denial-flutter-engine and denial-plugin-manager for ARM64 beside x86-64, and each machine downloads only its own architecture. The setup script configures ARM64 machines, Arch Linux ARM included. Alpine packages stay x86-64.
• A phone running the mobile shell keeps working as a phone when a monitor is plugged in: the monitor runs the desktop shell beside it. Apps open on the screen they were started from. A recents card's monitor button, or opening the app from the monitor's launcher, moves an app to the monitor; dropping a window on the phone's screen, or opening it from the phone, brings it back. With the monitor in use the power button turns off only the phone, each screen dims on its own, and unplugging moves the monitor's windows to the phone until it returns. The monitor has its own roundness (appearance.monitorCornerRadiusScale) and its own wallpaper, placed and zoomed apart from the phone's (outputZooms in the wallpaper file). See docs/PHONE_AND_MONITOR.md.
• Color management. Output buffers are 10-bit where the display planes allow it, and each display gets the desktop converted from sRGB to its own gamut, read from its EDID. denialctl color correction off and on compare a display with and without it. Screenshots and screen capture stay sRGB.
• denialctl color lut load FILE.cube grades the whole desktop with a 3D LUT, and denialctl color app APP_ID lut load FILE.cube grades one app's windows. Display color settings are saved and applied again at the next start.
• HDR on displays whose EDID offers PQ. denialctl color hdr OUTPUT on switches the output to BT.2100 with SDR content at a chosen white (203 cd/m² by default), and HDR windows keep the display's headroom. srgb is for displays that ignore BT.2020 and show PQ with sRGB primaries.
• Apps can describe their colors through wp_color_management_v1 and wp_color_representation_v1; Denial converts tagged windows into the desktop's colors.
• A color tuning panel, opened with Super+Alt+P or denialctl color tune, grades the desktop or a tapped app live: lift, gamma and gain wheels and exposure, contrast, saturation, vibrance, warmth and tint sliders, over a base look from ~/.local/share/denial/luts. It has built-in looks (Warm, Cool, Logix, Matte, Film, Night and Mono), shows the target ungraded while Before is held, and saves on release.
• Mouse & touchpad settings can switch mouse acceleration off, which gives libinput's flat pointer profile.
• zwp_input_timestamps_v1: clients get libinput's microsecond time for each key, pointer and touch event.
• denial_keyboard_inset_v1 lets an app follow the on-screen keyboard's height as it opens, closes and is dragged, and lay itself out around the keys instead of being moved above them.
• Input deck: a touch display can become a full-screen keyboard and touchpad for the desktop shown on another display.
• Remote desktops, virtual machines and other apps that ask for it through zwp_keyboard_shortcuts_inhibit_v1 can now receive Super and Denial's other shortcuts while they have focus. Denial asks first: Allow once, Always allow, Decline once or Never allow. The poin

Denial 0.6.1

This is a signed x86-64 and AArch64 public-beta release of Denial.

• Source tag: v0.6.1
• Source commit: dbdeffa85a9c861ba4c3ad087f0950ecea50414f
• Signing fingerprint: AE4108FA5E91E26BE0EE331E0F5B3AD16E023091
• Required packages: denial and denial-flutter-engine
• Optional plugin tools: denial-plugin-manager
• Direct downloads: Arch, Alpine 3.24, Debian-family (Debian 13 / Ubuntu 24.04), and Fedora
• Every direct package has an adjacent detached OpenPGP signature
• APT repository: Debian 13 (trixie) and Ubuntu 24.04 (noble)
• Pacman repository: x86-64 and AArch64
• DNF repository: Fedora 44 x86-64 and AArch64

Added

• Packages for ARM64 (AArch64). The Pacman, APT and DNF repositories carry denial, denial-flutter-engine and denial-plugin-manager for ARM64 beside x86-64, and each machine downloads only its own architecture. The setup script configures ARM64 machines, Arch Linux ARM included. Alpine packages stay x86-64.
• A phone running the mobile shell keeps working as a phone when a monitor is plugged in: the monitor runs the desktop shell beside it. Apps open on the screen they were started from. A recents card's monitor button, or opening the app from the monitor's launcher, moves an app to the monitor; dropping a window on the phone's screen, or opening it from the phone, brings it back. With the monitor in use the power button turns off only the phone, each screen dims on its own, and unplugging moves the monitor's windows to the phone until it returns. The monitor has its own roundness (appearance.monitorCornerRadiusScale) and its own wallpaper, placed and zoomed apart from the phone's (outputZooms in the wallpaper file). See docs/PHONE_AND_MONITOR.md.
• Color management. Output buffers are 10-bit where the display planes allow it, and each display gets the desktop converted from sRGB to its own gamut, read from its EDID. denialctl color correction off and on compare a display with and without it. Screenshots and screen capture stay sRGB.
• denialctl color lut load FILE.cube grades the whole desktop with a 3D LUT, and denialctl color app APP_ID lut load FILE.cube grades one app's windows. Display color settings are saved and applied again at the next start.
• HDR on displays whose EDID offers PQ. denialctl color hdr OUTPUT on switches the output to BT.2100 with SDR content at a chosen white (203 cd/m² by default), and HDR windows keep the display's headroom. srgb is for displays that ignore BT.2020 and show PQ with sRGB primaries.
• Apps can describe their colors through wp_color_management_v1 and wp_color_representation_v1; Denial converts tagged windows into the desktop's colors.
• A color tuning panel, opened with Super+Alt+P or denialctl color tune, grades the desktop or a tapped app live: lift, gamma and gain wheels and exposure, contrast, saturation, vibrance, warmth and tint sliders, over a base look from ~/.local/share/denial/luts. It has built-in looks (Warm, Cool, Logix, Matte, Film, Night and Mono), shows the target ungraded while Before is held, and saves on release.
• Mouse & touchpad settings can switch mouse acceleration off, which gives libinput's flat pointer profile.
• zwp_input_timestamps_v1: clients get libinput's microsecond time for each key, pointer and touch event.
• denial_keyboard_inset_v1 lets an app follow the on-screen keyboard's height as it opens, closes and is dragged, and lay itself out around the keys instead of being moved above them.
• Input deck: a touch display can become a full-screen keyboard and touchpad for the desktop shown on another display.
• Remote desktops, virtual machines and other apps that ask for it through zwp_keyboard_shortcuts_inhibit_v1 can now receive Super and Denial's other shortcuts while they have focus. Denial asks first: Allow once, Always allow, Decline once or Never allow. The poin

Denial 0.6.0

This is a signed x86-64 public-beta release of Denial.

• Source tag: v0.6.0
• Source commit: d65792d4309a93f2a4877bfc16bc96df6151506c
• Signing fingerprint: AE4108FA5E91E26BE0EE331E0F5B3AD16E023091
• Required packages: denial and denial-flutter-engine
• Optional plugin tools: denial-plugin-manager
• Direct downloads: Arch, Alpine 3.24, Debian-family (Debian 13 / Ubuntu 24.04), and Fedora
• Every direct package has an adjacent detached OpenPGP signature
• APT repository: Debian 13 (trixie) and Ubuntu 24.04 (noble)
• DNF repository: Fedora 44 x86-64

Added

• A phone running the mobile shell keeps working as a phone when a monitor is plugged in: the monitor runs the desktop shell beside it. Apps open on the screen they were started from. A recents card's monitor button, or opening the app from the monitor's launcher, moves an app to the monitor; dropping a window on the phone's screen, or opening it from the phone, brings it back. With the monitor in use the power button turns off only the phone, each screen dims on its own, and unplugging moves the monitor's windows to the phone until it returns. The monitor has its own roundness (appearance.monitorCornerRadiusScale) and its own wallpaper, placed and zoomed apart from the phone's (outputZooms in the wallpaper file). See docs/PHONE_AND_MONITOR.md.
• Color management. Output buffers are 10-bit where the display planes allow it, and each display gets the desktop converted from sRGB to its own gamut, read from its EDID. denialctl color correction off and on compare a display with and without it. Screenshots and screen capture stay sRGB.
• denialctl color lut load FILE.cube grades the whole desktop with a 3D LUT, and denialctl color app APP_ID lut load FILE.cube grades one app's windows. Display color settings are saved and applied again at the next start.
• HDR on displays whose EDID offers PQ. denialctl color hdr OUTPUT on switches the output to BT.2100 with SDR content at a chosen white (203 cd/m² by default), and HDR windows keep the display's headroom. srgb is for displays that ignore BT.2020 and show PQ with sRGB primaries.
• Apps can describe their colors through wp_color_management_v1 and wp_color_representation_v1; Denial converts tagged windows into the desktop's colors.
• A color tuning panel, opened with Super+Alt+P or denialctl color tune, grades the desktop or a tapped app live: lift, gamma and gain wheels and exposure, contrast, saturation, vibrance, warmth and tint sliders, over a base look from ~/.local/share/denial/luts. It has built-in looks (Warm, Cool, Logix, Matte, Film, Night and Mono), shows the target ungraded while Before is held, and saves on release.
• Mouse & touchpad settings can switch mouse acceleration off, which gives libinput's flat pointer profile.
• zwp_input_timestamps_v1: clients get libinput's microsecond time for each key, pointer and touch event.
• denial_keyboard_inset_v1 lets an app follow the on-screen keyboard's height as it opens, closes and is dragged, and lay itself out around the keys instead of being moved above them.
• Input deck: a touch display can become a full-screen keyboard and touchpad for the desktop shown on another display.
• Remote desktops, virtual machines and other apps that ask for it through zwp_keyboard_shortcuts_inhibit_v1 can now receive Super and Denial's other shortcuts while they have focus. Denial asks first: Allow once, Always allow, Decline once or Never allow. The pointer release shortcut (Super+Escape by default), VT switching, the emergency exit and the volume and brightness keys stay with Denial, and the release shortcut gives the shortcuts back until the app is focused again.
• Settings has a Permissions page. It lists the apps that asked for Denial's keyboard shortcuts and sets each to Ask, Always allow or Never allow, effective at

Denial 0.5.1

This is a signed x86-64 public-beta release of Denial.

• Source tag: v0.5.1
• Source commit: c96375a190a200b6343868afc42d4492b6badb9d
• Signing fingerprint: AE4108FA5E91E26BE0EE331E0F5B3AD16E023091
• Required packages: denial and denial-flutter-engine
• Optional plugin tools: denial-plugin-manager
• Direct downloads: Arch, Alpine 3.24, Debian-family (Debian 13 / Ubuntu 24.04), and Fedora
• Every direct package has an adjacent detached OpenPGP signature
• APT repository: Debian 13 (trixie) and Ubuntu 24.04 (noble)
• DNF repository: Fedora 44 x86-64

Added

• Denial can now compose its Flutter shell from typed built-in and external plugins. The optional denial-plugin-manager package provides the graphical manager, CLI, version-matched compiler kit, validated Apply/recovery flow, and Git-based installation without publishing Denial SDKs on pub.dev.
• After a Denial update, your plugins now come back on their own. Denial keeps them and their settings, rebuilds them for the new release in the background while its standard desktop runs, and switches back at a quiet moment without a logout. One notification follows the rebuild; if it cannot finish, it explains why and offers Try again, Check for updates, and Open Plugins, and it waits for a network connection when downloads are needed.
• Plugins now discovers the public denialwm/denial-plugins collection by default. Its first entry is the independently installable Windows-style Taskbar; catalog discovery never installs or enables a plugin automatically.
• Mouse & touchpad settings can now tune the scrolling layout's continuous three-finger swipe speed independently from two-finger content scrolling.
• Workspace transitions can now move horizontally or vertically, and four-finger workspace gestures work on either axis.
• Systemd-managed Denial sessions now launch standard XDG desktop autostart entries after the compositor and its discovered display endpoints are ready.
• Settings can configure environment variables for applications launched by Denial, globally or for a selected desktop application. Rust validates and atomically persists rules keyed by standard desktop-file IDs; variables can be set, set to an empty string, or removed without changing the compositor or systemd activation environment. Shortcut Application targets preserve the same identity and receive the selected application's rules.
• End-to-end fractional display scaling now keeps Flutter, native Wayland clients, and Xwayland sharp and consistently sized.
• Super+Shift+S now opens a compositor-native region screenshot workflow with direct Wayland screencopy support.
• Shortcuts can now toggle the focused window's always-on-top state in both stacking and managed layouts.
• Settings now runs as a built-in local Flutter application that can be launched from the desktop and mobile home surfaces.
• Mobile mode now has a dedicated wallpaper browser with preview, drag positioning, fine alignment controls, and per-display targeting.
• Simplified Chinese localization and a live language selector are now available throughout the shell and Settings.
• Appearance settings now include live wallpaper selection and physical cursor-size controls.
• The desktop system bar now hosts StatusNotifier/AppIndicator items and legacy XEmbed tray icons, including menus and pointer actions.
• Alpine Linux 3.24 is now a supported x86-64 package target, with native APK packages, OpenRC session integration, installation documentation, and a no-compile release-promotion path.

Changed

• The reference desktop, top bar, launcher, and clock are first-party plugins built against the extracted denial_sdk and denial_flutter_sdk contracts. Release validation now builds and verifies the separate Plugin Manager for Pacman, APT, DNF, Alpine direct downloads, and Nix.
• Denial environment variables now prefer the consistent DENIAL_* prefix while accepting