A session started while logind was off the system bus had no
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, so the gaming and shutdown blocks looked for
daily-limits' cache in /tmp and showed '⏱? no data'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DHsV8jzhhX162EcxxEXbca
The GTK tray icon was the only status surface, and it had been commented out
of ~/.config/i3/config since 2026-08-21. With nothing in the bar, the locker
miscounted the week for a fortnight and the machine never said so.
Shows "<count>/<minimum> · <gaming budget>", read from the local status API
(screen-locker-web.service on 127.0.0.1:8770); clicking opens the full UI.
Three things it deliberately will not do quietly:
- a dead status server renders "status server down" in red, or the last known
value marked (stale) in orange -- never a blank block. That server is what
the gaming budget reads, so its absence costs two hours;
- a disarmed or unscheduled timer overrides the compliance colour entirely
and shows "DISARMED" in red. A locker that cannot fire is the worse
problem and the one that hides;
- clicking only opens the UI. There is no bar action that can clear a lock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fcwu78wk17FWMHbbfbyicc
