The colour was in 05-prompt.zsh, before oh-my-zsh. That is right for ZSH_THEME
and wrong for everything else: ~/.p10k.zsh assigns
POWERLEVEL9K_CONTEXT_BACKGROUND itself and is sourced from 30-path.zsh, so the
role colour was overwritten before the first prompt was drawn. The isolated
test missed it because the throwaway HOME had no .p10k.zsh; on the real machine
the desktop came up with 0 instead of blue.
Theme before oh-my-zsh, colour after .p10k.zsh - two different constraints that
happen to pull in opposite directions.
The config alias was missing entirely. Without it the bare repository has no
front end, which makes the whole arrangement unusable. Guarded on ~/.cfg
existing so the alias does not appear on a machine that has not been set up.
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Load order is the substance of this change, and two attempts got it wrong in
the same way. oh-my-zsh consumes both the plugins array and the theme while it
is being sourced, so anything set afterwards is silently ignored. The plan had
plugins in the stub but the theme in the role file, which produced a shell
reporting ZSH_THEME=powerlevel10k while running without powerlevel10k at all -
132 of its functions missing and nobody any the wiser. Plugins and prompt are
now both resolved before oh-my-zsh, the latter in 05-prompt.zsh.
Portability is handled by asking whether a command exists rather than by
duplicating files per role. "alias ls='lsd'" turns ls into a broken command on
a machine without lsd, and the Mac is such a machine; the yay aliases and
helpers are gated the same way. That keeps one shared base instead of three
diverging copies.
The plan also guessed the plugin list as (git fzf). It is actually seven
entries, so five would have vanished - among them signal-keyring, which turned
out to be a local custom plugin present on this machine only. Naming it
elsewhere means an oh-my-zsh warning at every login, and its content is a
verbatim copy of the gnome-keyring block already in .zshrc, so it ran twice.
The inline block stays, in the desktop role; the plugin is dropped.
Dead code removed rather than carried over:
- PYTHONPATH pointed at /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages. Python here is
3.14 and that directory does not exist.
- XDG_SESSION_TYPE was forced to x11 and then tested for "wayland" six lines
below, so that branch could never be taken. The variable belongs to the
session; overriding it lies to everything that reads it.
- drm() was defined twice, the first losing to the second on every start.
- PATH carried ~/bin, ~/.scripts and /usr/X11R6/bin, none of which exist.
Entries are added only if the directory is there.
Verified against the live configuration in an isolated ZDOTDIR: 277 aliases and
263 functions on both sides, none missing, and powerlevel10k loading for all
three roles with the intended colour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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