fix: seed a default whose wallpapers are actually installed - #3
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install.sh copies examples/dynamic-wallpaper.json in as the starter config, and
it named the `tahoe-beach` set: 26-tahoe-beach-{dawn,day,dusk,night}.jpg. No repo
in the suite ships those files. `git log --all` in apple-glass has never carried a
tahoe wallpaper, this repo versions zero images, and the copies on the maintainer's
laptop are hand-placed (30 Aug) — their only other hardlinks are Omarchy's own
background-transition cache.
So every fresh install got a macos-dynamic-wallpaper.service that failed on every
tick with `wallpaper not found`, and it was invisible on the one machine that had
the files. macarchy-install#9 has the journal.
The default is now the `glass` set, built from the three backgrounds apple-glass
does ship and ordered by measured luminance so the day reads in the right
direction: 3-aurora (110/255) is day, 1-sequoia-dusk (101) sits either side of it,
2-graphite (75) is night. Apple's own wallpapers cannot be redistributed, so
shipping the tahoe set was never the alternative.
The five existing sets are kept as presets for a user who supplies those images
themselves — being present was never the bug, being the default was.
Three tests pin it: the active set may only name wallpapers apple-glass ships, it
must cover all four phases, and the presets must survive. The first one fails on
the old config, which is how it was checked.
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The bug
install.shcopiesexamples/dynamic-wallpaper.jsonin as the starter config, and it named thetahoe-beachset:No repo in the suite ships those files.
apple-glass/backgrounds/holds exactly three:So a fresh install has always produced a
macos-dynamic-wallpaper.servicethat fails on every tick:It was invisible on the one machine that mattered because the files are sitting there — placed by hand on 30 Aug.
Provenance, since it decides the fix
git log --all -- 'backgrounds/*tahoe*'inapple-glass→ empty. It has never shipped one.~/.cache/omarchy/background-transitions/— Omarchy's own cache, not a repo.They are Apple's macOS system wallpapers, so shipping them here was never an option regardless of repo size.
The fix
A new
glassset built from the three backgroundsapple-glassdoes ship, ordered by measured luminance so the day reads in the right direction:1-sequoia-dusk.jpg3-aurora.jpg1-sequoia-dusk.jpg2-graphite.jpgThe five existing sets stay as presets for anyone who supplies those images themselves — being present was never the bug, being the default was.
Test
Three cases in
tests/test_dynamic_wallpaper.py:apple-glassshipsThe first fails on the old config — checked by putting
tahoe-beachback:Suite: 31 passed.
Context
Fixes half of macarchy/macarchy-install#9 — the half that is a real defect on real machines, not a CI artifact. The other repo's PR is macarchy/macarchy-install#10; its
clean machinecheck cannot go green until this lands, because that harness clones this repo frommain.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01SYBhT1xfp3MQ1w3687F4Mp