Rounded live cards on the physical board

Board capture: native screenshot during a guarded compositor trial. The selected terminal card and partially visible left neighbor have rounded corners revealing the actual selected wallpaper. The earlier native capture shows square selected-card corners. Both images were visually reviewed.

Board capture: rounded live cards reveal the wallpaper

Before, from the normal compositor · Identities and hashes

This is not a camera recording, real-finger acceptance, or a matching-system installation. The two captures show different terminal instances after the session restart; their colors/titles differ, so this is a visual geometry comparison rather than a controlled pixel-difference benchmark. The QEMU fixtures in the parent directory provide that controlled comparison.

Trial and restoration

The board was reserved with /tmp/k230-board.lock. The normal and booted system both resolved to 9h5z3gk24gb3kdal037plsxqrmd7dx1y; shell, shell-ui, and shell-keyboard were active. Six new closure paths (8,230,824 NAR bytes) were imported, exit 0. No kernel, boot files, saved theme or credentials were changed.

An independent eight-minute systemd timer was armed before creating the single owned runtime drop-in: /run/systemd/system/shell.service.d/91-k230-rounded-trial.conf. It replaced only ExecStart, retaining the installed environment/config:

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/nix/store/7pjmarasi2x8nbmzsy67anl0n6slnbgy-k230-card-shell/bin/sway -d -c /nix/store/77njgmyf1lldv3vnsq79nhasa85ad0c8-k230-sway.conf

After systemctl daemon-reload and systemctl restart --no-block shell.service, /proc/$(systemctl show -p MainPID --value shell)/exe resolved to the exact trial Sway recorded in result.json; all three shell services and the restoration timer were active.

As shell, from /home/shell, with XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/shell, SWAYSOCK=/run/shell/sway-ipc.sock and WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1:

swaymsg exec 'foot --app-id=k230-rounded-proof --title=Terminal'
swaymsg card_shell enter
# Capture again after the entry has settled.
grim /run/shell/k230-rounded-board.png

The PNG was collected via base64 over the serial console. Raw serial logs remain private. An initial systemctl show entered its pager; the operator exited it and repeated with --no-pager -l before deriving the exact command. This operator issue was not counted as a compositor test.

The initial recovery service failed to remove the drop-in: its minimal PATH contained systemctl but not rm. Its final restart returned success, so the unit result alone was misleading. The required post-recovery executable/path checks caught this: trial Sway and the drop-in remained. No restoration pass is claimed for that attempt.

The operator corrected recovery with a separate, waited transient service:

systemd-run --unit=k230-rounded-trial-cleanup --wait /bin/sh -c 'set -e; /run/current-system/sw/bin/rm -f /run/systemd/system/shell.service.d/91-k230-rounded-trial.conf; /run/current-system/sw/bin/systemctl daemon-reload; /run/current-system/sw/bin/systemctl restart shell.service'

A follow-up check after startup confirmed the normal Sway executable, all three active shell services, and absence of the owned drop-in. The timer was stopped. Future recovery commands must use explicit executable paths and fail on the first error; unit success alone is not restoration proof. The temporary trial does not complete task F.3’s matching-system installation or E.1’s physical gesture acceptance.