Home Launcher

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home / hm — Phone-style home-screen disguise

A modern phone home launcher used as an undercover disguise — an alternative to the Notes-only cover. At a glance it reads as an ordinary smartphone home screen; only the Notes tile opens anything real.

CMD> home        # or: hm

Layout

  • Status bar — real clock (HH:MM), a fake carrier (“CRIMSON MOBILE”), signal bars, and the real battery level (green when charging, red at ≤15%).
  • Clock / weather hero — large live time + date (via ClockManager) and the current weather (via weather / wx — sun/cloud/rain/snow/thunder icon + temperature + condition). Shows a muted -- until weather is configured.
  • 4×2 app grid — Phone · Messages · Email · Browser · Music · Notes · Calendar · Settings, with unread badges on a couple of tiles.

Using it

Input Action
Tap a tile Notes opens the real notes app (see Undercover Mode); every other tile shows a “No service” toast and opens nothing
Trackball U/D/L/R Move the selection ring between tiles
Trackball click Launch the selected tile
Back chevron in the notes list Tap it (top-left of the notes appbar) → returns here, to Home. Only shown when Notes was opened from the launcher.
q inside the notes list Same as the chevron — returns to Home (keyboard shortcut). Works even with a passphrase set. In a note, tap the detail back chevron to reach the list first.
Type the passphrase Drops silently to the CLI (when an undercover passphrase is set)
q at the home screen Exits to the CLI — only when no passphrase is configured

The launcher inherits all the undercover plumbing: displayManager.setBlocked status-bar suppression, dim→wake repaint, lock-screen stand-down, touch double-tap wake, and the secret-passphrase rolling-buffer exit.


Live data

  • Clock and battery are always real (no configuration needed).
  • Weather is fetched on entry if WiFi is connected and the cached reading is stale. Configure it once with weather / wx (or by editing /config/weather.conf). Weather cannot be known offline — it is live server data.

Notes

  • This is the standalone launcher for tuning the look. It is not yet offered as an undercover cover-style choice (Notes vs Home) — that is planned.
  • App icons are drawn as vector primitives (no icon font), so they render on both board variants without extra assets.

See also: Undercover Mode, Weather.