About

Why this shape

Chimera Linux’s own userland is BSD (chimerautils), on top of the Linux kernel — the “hybrid” is real, not just a name.
dinit handles init, with per-package <pkg>-dinit subpackages (greetd-dinit, udiskie-dinit, networkmanager-dinit, …). Not every service self-enables on install — dbus and elogind do, polkit, networkmanager, seatd, rtkit and syslog-ng don’t, so the installer’s Services checklist enables the ones actually wanted.
Waybar, not yambar, on the sway variant — ported from an already-working sway config after yambar showed real bugs on actual hardware (a hardcoded battery name, unreliable refresh, the wireless module going blank).
A second variant, niri, uses Utumno (Quickshell) as the whole shell, driven through qsd77. Both are packaged here, and Quickshell itself is rebuilt as quickshell-h77 with its Hyprland QML module turned back on — cports builds it off, and Utumno’s bar won’t load without it.
No greeter, by design: a plain getty prompt into a shell that execs Sway (or niri) via .profile, matching Void’s and Chimera’s own convention. anon/chimera and root/chimera are Chimera’s own shipped defaults, left untouched.
h77-welcome is a dialog(1) TUI, this project’s equivalent of d77void’s GTK d77-welcome — it reuses the dialog dependency the installer already needs instead of adding a second GUI toolkit.

Layout

vendor/chimera-live/            vendored fork of chimera-linux/chimera-live
                                 (mklive.sh), patched with "sway" and
                                 "niri" cases sharing one package list
vendor/chimera-install-scripts/ vendored, patched chimera-installer:
                                 Groups + Services checklists, Partition +
                                 Filesystems, Network (nmtui) and Keymap
pkg/h77-dots/                   general app dotfiles (/etc/skel),
                                 h77-update, os-release identity
pkg/h77-sway-dots/              sway/waybar/swaylock/swaync dotfiles
pkg/h77-niri-dots/              niri config: Utumno autostart, qsd77 binds
pkg/utumno/                     Utumno (Quickshell shell)
pkg/quickshell-h77/             Quickshell with its Hyprland module enabled
pkg/qsd77/                      qsd77 (Go CLI for Utumno's IPC)
pkg/h77-welcome/                dialog(1) welcome/installer helper
pkg/h77-installer/              thin wrapper around the patched installer
pkg/h77-install-scripts/        cports package for the patched installer
pkg/mocinha/                    Mocinha GTK3 installer (experimental)
pkg/h77-mocinha/                Mocinha's manifest for this live
iso/mklive-d77.sh               builds the "sway" or "niri" live ISO
iso/fetch-pkgs.sh               fetches CI's already-built packages
container/                      Containerfile(s) for both build stages
build.sh                        one command, whole pipeline

Build

Two containers, in order: cbuild builds every pkg/* into real .apk files (it refuses to run as root); the ISO container then consumes those and runs mklive.sh (needs root, for mount(8)).

./build.sh          # packages once, then BOTH ISOs
./build.sh sway     # packages + sway ISO only
./build.sh niri     # packages + niri ISO only

Packages are only rebuilt when they have to be: if CI’s latest h77-pkgs release was built from the same pkg/ tree, build.sh downloads it instead (PKGS=fetch or PKGS=local forces one or the other).

Or, on a Chimera/hybrid-d77 host already, skip the containers and run doas ./iso/mklive-d77.sh [niri] directly once cbuild-out/hybrid/ is populated — either build the packages yourself via cbuild, or fetch CI’s already-built ones with iso/fetch-pkgs.sh.

See the project’s own README for the full, step-by-step build instructions.

About

Why this shape

Layout

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