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Athanor

Athanor is an MIT-licensed alchemical desktop layer for Arch Linux and Hyprland. It configures seven dungeon-themed workspaces, a roguelike status bar that displays the current workspace as a dungeon level, free disk space as gold, battery as HP, and minutes since boot, plus crash notifications with tombstones.

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Overview

Its bar calculates the planetary hour from the machine's sunrise and sunset and associates each hour with a Golden Dawn tarot trump. It provides four color schemes based on stages of the alchemical Magnum Opus, with an optional setting that changes schemes as the sun moves through the day. It also supplies themes for Helix, Micro, Neovim, and Lualine, and uses two-tone Floyd–Steinberg-dithered Doré engravings as workspace wallpapers.

The installer places files in ~/.config/athanor and can install the shell command, prompt, fonts, or an optional Hyprland plugin that displays window titles in borders. Commands include athanor transmute for changing color schemes, athanor draw 3 for a three-card spread, athanor tomb for a crash tombstone, and athanor doctor for installation checks.

What Athanor is used for

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  • Turns an Arch and Hyprland desktop into a little alchemical dungeon: seven workspaces become planetary levels, a roguelike status bar shows battery as HP and free disk space as gold, four color schemes shift with the sun, and crashed programs get tombstones.

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