Island
The island replaces a bar's center section, or floats on its own as the dot. Its settings live under Settings → Bar: the widget list on Widgets, the rest in the island cards on General and Appearance.
Island widgets
Settings → Bar → Widgets → Island widgets works like the left and right sections: drag to reorder, switch a widget off to hide it, click it for its settings, or remove it with X. The clock stays and anchors the list. Widgets above it sit before the clock in the island, the rest after it.
Add widget offers two groups:
- Island activities: media or launcher, weather, control center or battery, volume, brightness, notifications, privacy, workspaces, keyboard layout and tray, built for the island and opening its own views. A removed one comes back from here.
- Bar widgets: regular bar widgets and plugin widgets, drawn without their bar pill. Widgets the island already rebuilds, like the clock or battery, are not offered twice.
The dot has no room for bar widgets, so it only offers island activities.
Dashboard tab
Dashboard opens to in the island's behavior card picks the dash tab that clicking or hovering the home face expands into. It starts at Overview.
Workspace switches
Workspace Switch in the island's notifications card shows workspace changes in the island instead of the workspace OSD. It travels as a live activity from the workspace source, so it needs Plugin activities on and workspace left out of Hidden activity sources. Without them the toggle is unavailable and the regular OSD shows.
Live activities
Plugins and dms ipc call islandActivity publish activities into the island. The Live activities card turns plugin activities on or off, sets how long a new one previews and how many stay as slots, and hides sources. Activity sources overrides where one source sits, what it shows collapsed and what a click opens. See Island Live Activities and the islandActivity IPC target.
A notification rule's Island summary option shows matching notifications in the island with an icon and a title template, while the notification center keeps the original. The template takes {summary}, {body} and {appName}.
Motion
Spring in the island's motion card picks how the island expands and collapses:
| Preset | Stiffness | Damping | Feel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smooth (default) | 600 | 49 | Settles without overshoot |
| Balanced | 560 | 37 | A slight overshoot |
| Playful | 640 | 30 | A visible bounce |
The stiffness, damping and mass sliders below it fine-tune the spring; values that match no preset leave none selected. Reset returns to Smooth. Reduce motion turns the spring off.