Fix decoration drift during animated transitions; checkpoint IPC/global-menu/output-management work

Border/titlebar decoration was built from Window.geometry (the animation's
final target) in both wayland backends' render loops, while sync_geometry
already draws a window's actual content at window_anims' interpolated rect
during any maximize/fullscreen/open-slide tween. Border and content read two
different rectangles for the whole transition, so the border visibly
detached from the window it was outlining - reported as "borders aren't
flush." Both udev.rs and winit.rs now read the same animated rect for
titlebar placement, border-strip placement, and the occlusion test against
later windows in stacking order. Verified: cargo build --workspace, cargo
clippy (0 new warnings), cargo test -p srdwm-core (111/111).

Also checkpoints substantial protocol/IPC work from prior sessions that had
accumulated uncommitted: gtk-shell1 support (gtk_shell.rs, the vendored
gtk-shell.xml, xwayland.rs's X11-side mirror) backing the global app menu;
zwlr_foreign_toplevel_manager_v1 (foreign_toplevel.rs) broadcasting distinct
maximized/minimized/fullscreen/activated state per window; output_management
(ext-output-management + layer-shell exclusive-zone reservation tracking);
workspace.rs and context_menu.rs; a Unix-socket IPC crate (platform/src/
ipc.rs) and a `srd` control-CLI crate (crates/ctl); xkb_config.rs; and a
theme module (core/src/theme.rs). A peer session working the AGS shell
concurrently verified several of these live against a running srdwm: the
global menu rendering a real app's File/Edit menu over gtk-shell1, and
foreign-toplevel correctly reporting maximized and fullscreen as independent,
non-simultaneous states with the geometry each implies (maximize stops at a
reserved top bar and past a dock; fullscreen reaches the true monitor edge).

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+# Desktop-shell / panel support - TODO
+
+Findings from trying to run a GTK4 + gtk4-layer-shell panel (AGS/Astal) on srdwm.
+Everything below was measured against the **running binary built from this
+worktree at 2026-08-12 17:32**, not read out of the source - re-verified after
+that rebuild, so it is current, and reproduced both on the real session and on a
+nested `srdwm --wayland`.
+
+The C++ tree on `main` is stale and misleading for this (its
+`wayland_platform.cc` has `layer_shell_` commented out while the live binary
+advertises `zwlr_layer_shell_v1` v4) - ignore it.
+
+## What srdwm advertises today (16 globals)
+
+```
+ext_session_lock_manager_v1 (v1)          wl_compositor (v5)
+wl_data_device_manager (v3)               wl_output (v4)
+wl_seat (v9)                              wl_shm (v2)
+wl_subcompositor (v1)                     wp_fractional_scale_manager_v1 (v1)
+wp_viewporter (v1)                        xdg_wm_base (v6)
+zwlr_data_control_manager_v1 (v2)         zwlr_layer_shell_v1 (v4)
+zwlr_screencopy_manager_v1 (v2)           zwp_primary_selection_device_manager_v1 (v1)
+zxdg_decoration_manager_v1 (v1)           zxdg_output_manager_v1 (v3)
+```
+
+Layer-shell v4, session lock, data-control and xdg-output is a good base.
+
+---
+
+## P0 - the panel cannot stay connected
+
+### 1. FIXED - smithay posted `invalid_size` on a commit after role destroy
+
+**Root cause (smithay 0.7.0, upstream) and the local workaround, both verified
+end to end on 2026-08-12 19:28. A GTK4 panel now runs on srdwm.**
+
+#### What was wrong
+
+`src/wayland/shell/wlr_layer/handlers.rs:125` registers a **pre-commit hook** on
+the `wl_surface` at `get_layer_surface` time. That hook runs on every subsequent
+commit of that surface, forever, and validates the layer-shell cached state:
+
+```rust
+if pending.size.w == 0 && !pending.anchor.anchored_horizontally() {
+    guard.surface.post_error(Error::InvalidSize,
+        "width 0 requested without setting left and right anchors");
+}
+```
+
+When the client destroys the layer surface, smithay `.reset()`s
+`LayerSurfaceCachedState` to `Default` (size `0x0`, no anchors) rather than
+removing it, and does not unregister the hook. So the next commit on that
+`wl_surface` validates the reset state, fails, posts a protocol error, and the
+connection dies.
+
+gtk4-layer-shell does create -> commit -> destroy -> commit as part of normal
+setup, which is why every GTK4 panel died and waybar (one surface, never
+destroyed) did not. Nothing to do with `wl_output` being named or nil.
+
+#### Why it could not be fixed behind the hook
+
+- Smithay's hook is registered at `get_layer_surface`, *before* our
+  `new_layer_surface` callback runs.
+- `destroyed()` calls our `layer_destroyed` and then resets the cached state
+  unconditionally, so anything set there is overwritten.
+- Smithay discards the `HookId` from its own `add_pre_commit_hook`, so its hook
+  cannot be removed.
+
+#### The fix that works: get in front of it
+
+Three facts from the 0.7.0 source make it possible:
+
+1. `add_pre_commit_hook` / `remove_pre_commit_hook` are public API.
+2. Hooks are a `Vec`, **pushed and iterated in registration order**
+   (`tree.rs`: `pre_commit_hooks.push(hook)`, `for hook in hooks`).
+3. `CompositorHandler::new_surface` fires from `wl_compositor::CreateSurface`,
+   strictly before any `get_layer_surface` on that surface.
+
+So a hook registered in `new_surface` sits at index 0 and runs *before*
+smithay's. Implemented in `crates/wayland/src/{protocols,state}.rs`:
+
+- `CompState` gains `dead_layer_surfaces: HashSet<WlSurface>`.
+- `layer_destroyed` inserts the surface.
+- `new_surface` registers a per-surface pre-commit hook that is a no-op unless
+  the surface is in that set, in which case it nudges `pending.size.w`/`.h` from
+  0 to 1 on whichever axis is unanchored - making the state self-consistent
+  before smithay validates it.
+
+**Caveat, keep the comment in the code:** this depends on hook execution being
+registration order. That holds in 0.7.0 and it is a plain `Vec`, but it is not a
+documented API guarantee - a future smithay could reorder and this would silently
+stop working. Pin the version, and remove this once upstream fixes the root bug.
+0.7.0 (2025-06-24) is the newest release on crates.io, so there is nothing to
+bump to today.
+
+#### Verification
+
+Against the exact binary (sha256 `7faf27f1...`):
+
+```
+minimal repro (lsmin.py, raw protocol, no GTK):
+  3 layer surfaces, no destroy                   SURVIVED
+  create, destroy, create                        SURVIVED
+  create, destroy, RECOMMIT surface, create      SURVIVED   <- was CONNECTION KILLED
+invalid_size errors posted:                      0
+```
+
+AGS end to end on a nested srdwm: **runs, 0 errors, all 5 gtk4-layer-shell
+surfaces created (3 nil / 2 named output), 13 configures sent, 5 buffers
+attached, still alive after 60s.** Screenshot confirms the bar and dock actually
+render - clock, resources graph, tray, power button, dock icons. The workspace
+pill is correctly absent, since srdwm exposes no workspace protocol (see P1).
+
+### 2. Send a protocol error instead of closing the socket silently
+
+When the connection does go, there is **no `wl_display.error` event at all** - the
+socket simply closes. From the client that is indistinguishable from a compositor
+crash. `wl_resource_post_error` (or smithay's equivalent) on any fault would have
+turned this whole investigation into one log line.
+
+### 3. FIXED - No dmabuf - every client was forced through shm
+
+Neither `zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1` nor `wl_drm` was advertised, so no client could hand
+over a GPU buffer. GTK4 defaults to its Vulkan renderer and died:
+
+```
+vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormatsKHR(): A surface is no longer available. (VK_ERROR_SURFACE_LOST_KHR)
+libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1
+libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
+```
+
+`GSK_RENDERER=cairo` was required for any GTK4 client to get as far as the
+layer-shell hang above. On a 4-core / 3.8GB laptop, pushing every client
+through software rendering is a large permanent cost.
+
+**Fixed**: `zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1` v3 (`DmabufState::create_global`, `crates/wayland/src/protocols.rs`'s
+`DmabufHandler` impl, `delegate_dmabuf!`). The non-obvious part is that this works
+at all on the udev backend despite it rendering entirely in software
+(`PixmanRenderer`, no GPU pipeline - see `udev.rs`'s module doc comment):
+smithay's `PixmanRenderer` already implements `ImportDma`, importing a dmabuf by
+mmap'ing it and reading the pixels directly, which only works for the
+`Linear` modifier - exactly the one `PixmanRenderer::dmabuf_formats()`
+advertises. A client (GTK4 included) still allocates through its own
+EGL/gbm path against the real DRM render node - untouched by this
+compositor either way - and hands over a Linear-modifier dmabuf, which
+pixman reads straight off with no GPU involvement on the compositor side.
+`dmabuf_imported` eagerly validates by actually importing on the udev
+backend (`self.udev`'s `PixmanRenderer` is reachable from `CompState`
+directly); the winit (nested/dev) backend's `GlesRenderer` lives outside
+`CompState` (a sibling field on `WaylandPlatform`) and isn't reachable the
+same way, so buffers are accepted there without eager validation and
+imported lazily the first time they're actually rendered, same as every
+other buffer type. Went with v3 (`create_global`, a plain format list)
+over v4's `..._with_default_feedback` (which needs a `main_device` `dev_t`
+to steer multi-GPU clients toward the right render node) - a real gap
+worth closing later, not required for a single-GPU client to allocate and
+hand over a Linear-modifier buffer, which is all this backend can use
+regardless. Live-verified in an isolated nested instance (`SRDWM_NESTED=1`,
+so the session's real autostart never fired): `zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1` version
+3 shows up in a real client's (`wezterm`) registry bind over
+`WAYLAND_DEBUG=1`, and the client connects and maps a window normally with
+no protocol error or crash. Actually handing over a GPU-allocated dmabuf
+buffer end to end (GTK4 with `GSK_RENDERER` unset, in particular) is not
+yet re-verified live - this development sandbox has no working `/dev/dri`
+render node to allocate one against (`eglGetPlatformDisplay: EGL_BAD_ALLOC`
+even on the winit backend's own `GlesRenderer`), so that retest needs the
+user's real machine.
+
+---
+
+## P1 - protocols a bar needs, none of them workaroundable client-side
+
+The data never leaves the compositor, so a panel simply cannot show these.
+Current `delegate_*` set in `crates/wayland/src/`: compositor, data_control,
+data_device, fractional_scale, layer_shell, output, primary_selection, seat,
+session_lock, shm, viewporter, xdg_decoration, xdg_shell, xwayland_shell.
+
+- [x] DONE - **`zwlr_foreign_toplevel_management_v1`**'s `app_id`/`title` were
+      empty on the wire (state/activated worked) - live-verified by a peer
+      session's raw protocol capture against a running dock. Root cause:
+      `new_toplevel` fires at `xdg_surface.get_toplevel()` (role
+      assignment), which happens before a client's `set_title`/`set_app_id`/
+      first commit for essentially every real client, not racily but every
+      single time - so `new_managed_window` read `XdgToplevelSurfaceData`
+      before either was ever set. Fixed by re-reading both on every
+      `commit()` (`sync_toplevel_metadata` in `state.rs`) and re-announcing
+      to foreign-toplevel listeners when either changed.
+- [x] DONE (not yet live-verified against AGS) - **`zwlr_foreign_toplevel_management_v1`**
+      - enumerate windows with title/app_id/state, and activate/close/
+      maximize/minimize them. Went with the wlr protocol over the newer
+      `ext_foreign_toplevel_list_v1` + a separate management protocol:
+      smithay 0.7 only has a built-in helper for the `ext_` list-only half,
+      but the wlr one covers enumeration *and* interactivity in a single
+      interface, which is what was actually asked for (see the downstream
+      report this was scoped against: "click-to-focus in the dock, the
+      focused-app highlight, alt-tab actually switching, middle-click-to-
+      close" - none of that is possible from list-only enumeration alone).
+      Hand-written against `wayland-protocols-wlr`'s raw server bindings,
+      same pattern as `screencopy.rs` (`crates/wayland/src/foreign_toplevel.rs`).
+      Override-redirect windows are deliberately never announced, matching
+      `_NET_CLIENT_LIST`/ICCCM. `Activated` state is kept live on every
+      focus change (the one thing that actually needed to be, per the
+      report above).
+      DONE - maximize/fullscreen/minimize changes that originate from the
+      pointer (titlebar button, double-click) or from a client's own
+      request (`xdg_toplevel`'s `set_maximized`/`unset_maximized`/
+      `set_fullscreen`/`unset_fullscreen`/`set_minimized`, and the matching
+      X11/XWayland WM hints) now all call `foreign_toplevel::send_state`,
+      so a dock/panel sees the change regardless of which of those three
+      triggered it.
+      FIXED - the fourth trigger, a *compositor keybinding*
+      (`srd.window.maximize()`/`.fullscreen()`/`.minimize()` from the Lua
+      config), did not re-broadcast: `crates/config` only ever holds a
+      `WindowManager` reference, never `CompState`, so it cannot reach
+      `foreign_toplevel::send_state` directly. Went with the periodic-diff
+      option this entry named as the alternative to a callback: `CompState::
+      tick_dirty_broadcasts` (called once a frame from both backends'
+      `poll_events`, same cadence as the animation tween's `tick_animations`)
+      diffs `maximized`/`minimized`/`fullscreen` per window against what was
+      last sent and re-broadcasts anything that changed, regardless of which
+      call site changed it - catches this gap and any future one the same
+      way, rather than one more call site to remember. See
+      `foreign_toplevel::broadcast_dirty_state`'s doc comment.
+- [x] DONE - **`ext_workspace_manager_v1`** - enumerate workspaces,
+      which is active, and switch. This list entry was stale: the whole
+      protocol (`crates/wayland/src/workspace.rs`) was already implemented
+      and wired into both backends' globals - one flat `ext_workspace_
+      group_handle_v1` shared by every output (srdwm has no per-output
+      workspace concept), `activate` requests routed to `switch_workspace`,
+      `create_workspace`/`remove`/`assign`/`deactivate` deliberately not
+      advertised as capabilities (srdwm's workspace set is fixed at
+      startup). What *was* a real gap, found auditing every `switch_
+      workspace` call site the same way `foreign_toplevel`'s broadcast gap
+      was found: the `SUPER+scroll` workspace-cycle gesture in `input.rs`
+      called `switch_workspace` directly without calling `workspace::
+      broadcast_active_workspace` afterward, so a dock's workspace pill
+      only ever updated when a switch came through this protocol's own
+      `activate` request, going stale the moment the scroll gesture (or the
+      `srd.workspace.next()`/`.prev()`/`.switch()` Lua API, which has the
+      identical gap for the identical `crates/config`-has-no-`CompState`
+      reason `foreign_toplevel`'s keybinding gap does) changed it instead.
+      Fixed the `input.rs` scroll-gesture call site directly; the Lua-API
+      call sites are covered by the same `tick_dirty_broadcasts` fix as the
+      maximize/fullscreen/minimize keybinding gap above - `workspace::
+      broadcast_dirty_active` diffs the current workspace id once a frame
+      and only re-broadcasts on an actual change (unlike the foreign-
+      toplevel diff, calling `broadcast_active_workspace` unconditionally
+      would be real protocol traffic every frame, not a cheap comparison,
+      so this gates it first).
+- [x] FIXED (not yet re-verified live) - **`zwlr_screencopy_manager_v1`: `grim`
+      hangs on the DRM/udev session but WORKS on the nested winit backend.**
+      Root cause found by reading `render_udev_frame` in
+      `crates/wayland/src/udev.rs`: it drains *all* of
+      `CompState::screencopy_pending` once per call and services the whole
+      batch against whichever head is first in that pass's `ready` list (heads
+      with a page-flip in flight are filtered out of `ready`). If `ready` is
+      empty on a given call - every head mid-flip - the drained captures were
+      dropped at function exit with neither `ready` nor `failed` ever sent,
+      which is indistinguishable from a hang to the client. Two related bugs
+      fixed together: (1) `PendingCapture`/`FrameData` now carry the `Output`
+      the capture actually targets, and captures are partitioned per-head
+      inside the loop instead of all going to the first head (also fixes
+      multi-monitor captures reading the wrong screen's framebuffer); (2)
+      anything left unserviced after the loop - wrong head not ready this
+      pass, or the two earlier-return paths (`udev` not yet initialized,
+      session inactive after a VT switch) - is put back into
+      `screencopy_pending` instead of dropped, so the next call gets another
+      chance rather than the client waiting forever. Needs a `grim` retest
+      against the real DRM session to confirm.
+- [x] DONE - **`xdg_activation_v1`** - so a launcher can raise the app it just
+      spawned instead of it opening unfocused behind everything.
+      `XdgActivationState` + `XdgActivationHandler` (`crates/wayland/src/protocols.rs`),
+      `delegate_xdg_activation!`. No token bookkeeping of our own - the
+      default `token_created` already accepts every token, fine for a
+      single-user session with no cross-client trust boundary to enforce.
+      `request_activation` maps the activating surface to a `WindowId` via
+      `surface_to_id` and reuses the same `focus_window` path a dock's
+      foreign-toplevel "activate" request already goes through. A no-op,
+      not an error, if the surface isn't tracked yet (activation racing
+      ahead of the window's own mapping) - the protocol doesn't require
+      honoring every activation. Live-verified in an isolated nested
+      instance: `xdg_activation_v1` version 1 advertises correctly, a real
+      client connects and maps normally, no crash.
+
+---
+
+## P2 - full-desktop quality of life
+
+- [x] DONE (built, tested, installed; not yet live-verified against a real
+      lock daemon) - **`ext_idle_notify_v1` + `zwp_idle_inhibit_manager_v1`**
+      - idle lock, and inhibiting it during video playback. Both use
+      smithay's own built-in modules; see `docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md`
+      for the full writeup, including the one real gap (not workspace-
+      visibility-aware) and the winit-backend calloop-loop wrinkle this
+      needed to work around.
+- [x] DONE (built, tested, live-verified end to end in a nested instance
+      against a real protocol client) - **`zwlr_output_management_v1`** -
+      display arrangement/scale from a settings panel. `crates/wayland/src/
+      output_management.rs`. Not `Option`-gated like DPMS/gamma-control --
+      enumeration and applying position/scale/transform work identically
+      on both backends via `Output::change_current_state`. Deliberately
+      does not support disabling/enabling a head or switching resolution/
+      refresh rate (real DRM mode-setting, hardware-dependent work this
+      pass didn't attempt) - both fail honestly (`failed` event) rather
+      than silently no-op. Live-verified with a `pywayland`-based test
+      client generated from the real protocol XML: binds the manager,
+      receives correct `head`/`mode` events (name, description, make,
+      model, 8 accumulated modes, current mode, position, transform,
+      scale) matching the running nested instance; `create_configuration`
+      -> `enable_head` -> `set_position(777, 333)` -> `apply()` returns
+      `succeeded` and the head's position genuinely changes (confirmed via
+      a pushed `position` event on the same handle); `disable_head` ->
+      `apply()` correctly returns `failed` rather than silently doing
+      nothing.
+- [x] DONE (built, tested; not yet live-verified against real hardware --
+      see `docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md`) - **`zwlr_output_power_management_v1`**
+      - DPMS on/off per output, for an idle daemon or settings panel.
+      `crates/wayland/src/output_power.rs`, udev/DRM backend only.
+- [x] DONE (built, tested; not yet live-verified against real hardware --
+      see `docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md`) - **`zwlr_gamma_control_manager_v1`**
+      - night light / `gammastep`/`wlsunset`. `crates/wayland/src/
+      gamma_control.rs`, udev/DRM backend only.
+- [ ] `zwlr_virtual_pointer_manager_v1` + `zwp_virtual_keyboard_manager_v1` -
+      required by `ydotool` and by any automated UI testing.
+- [x] DONE - **`wp_cursor_shape_manager_v1`** - `protocols.rs`'s
+      `TabletSeatHandler` doc comment and `delegate_cursor_shape!(CompState)`
+      confirm this was already wired up (routes into `SeatHandler::
+      cursor_image`, same path a client-drawn cursor surface uses); this
+      list entry had simply never been updated. What actually needed work
+      was `cursor.rs`'s *art*, not the protocol - see `IMPLEMENTATION_
+      STATUS.md`'s entry on the new crosshair/move/pointer-hand bitmaps.
+- [ ] `zwp_pointer_constraints_v1` + `zwp_relative_pointer_manager_v1` - games.
+- [ ] `wp_presentation` - accurate frame timing.
+- [x] DONE (built, tested; not yet live-verified against a real IME) -
+      **`zwp_text_input_manager_v3` + `zwp_input_method_v2`** - IME (fcitx5,
+      ibus: CJK/dead-key composition, emoji picker). Both are smithay
+      built-ins (`TextInputManagerState`/`InputMethodManagerState`),
+      registered in `state.rs`/`udev.rs`/`winit.rs`; `InputMethodHandler`
+      impl in `protocols.rs`. Focus tracking needed no wiring at all --
+      `CompState::KeyboardFocus` is a plain `WlSurface`, and smithay's own
+      blanket `impl KeyboardTarget for WlSurface` already drives `seat.
+      text_input()`/`seat.input_method()` from inside `enter`/`leave`,
+      which `set_keyboard_focus`'s existing `keyboard.set_focus(...)` call
+      already triggers. The IME's own composition/candidate popup is
+      tracked as a `PopupKind::InputMethod` in the same `PopupManager`
+      that already owns every `xdg_popup` - `elements.rs`'s
+      `popup_render_elements` renders both kinds identically, so the popup
+      actually draws rather than existing invisibly.
+- [ ] `wp_single_pixel_buffer_v1`, `xdg_foreign_v2`.
+
+---
+
+## P3 - integration, not protocol
+
+- [x] DONE - **An IPC/CLI.** `srd` (`crates/ctl/`) talks to a
+      per-display Unix socket (`$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/srdwm-<display>.sock`,
+      `crates/platform/src/ipc.rs`'s `IpcServer` - moved out of
+      `crates/wayland` since it never touched anything Wayland-specific,
+      so both backends can share one implementation - polled once per
+      tick in all three backends now) with a JSON protocol: `clients`
+      (id/app_id/title/workspace/focused/minimized/visible/scratchpad/
+      floating/x/y/width/height per window - `floating` added for an AGS
+      dock's auto-hide overlap check, which needs to tell a layout-placed
+      tiled window flush against its reserved edge from a user-dragged
+      floating one actually overlapping it; geometry alone can't
+      distinguish the two), `dispatch <toggle_visibility|focus|
+      close> <id>`, and now `subscribe` - a full event-stream like `niri
+      msg -j`'s: the one connection stays open and gets pushed a fresh
+      `clients` snapshot every time the window list actually changes,
+      instead of a client having to poll and diff it themselves. This was
+      the single highest-leverage gap found comparing srdwm's IPC against
+      sway/Hyprland/i3/bspwm's own (all of which already have this) --
+      an AGS peer session had hit exactly this wall building a Python
+      helper to poll raw `wlr-foreign-toplevel` instead of using this
+      socket at all. Live-verified end to end against a real client
+      (Alacritty) in a nested instance. **X11 previously had no IPC server
+      of any kind** - the crate move fixed that too, along with
+      `X11Platform::poll_events` used to block indefinitely on
+      `wait_for_event()`, which would have left the socket unresponsive
+      between X11 events; now a bounded `poll(2)` (~16ms).
+- [x] DONE (not yet live - built and installed, pending restart) - **Set
+      `XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=srdwm`** for the session. Set in `udev.rs`
+      (deliberately not `winit.rs`, since that's the nested/dev backend) --
+      no longer inherited from whatever compositor the session was
+      previously started under.
+- [x] DONE (already correct, no change needed) - **Remove runtime sockets
+      on exit.** `IpcServer`'s `Drop` impl already removes its socket path
+      unconditionally; verified while auditing `foreign_toplevel`/protocol
+      cleanup paths this pass.
+- [ ] `jq: parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 28` repeats
+      continuously in `~/.local/state/wm-session-latest.log` - something in the
+      session scripts pipes non-JSON into `jq` in a loop. Harmless, but it buries
+      real errors.
+
+---
+
+## How to reproduce
+
+```sh
+# nested, so it doesn't disturb a running session
+WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 srdwm --wayland &
+
+# panel, forced onto the software renderer (see P0.3)
+WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 GSK_RENDERER=cairo WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 ags run 2>&1 | tee trace.log
+
+# the whole bug in one number - this prints 0, and must not:
+grep -E '^\[[0-9]' trace.log | grep -v ' -> ' | grep -c layer_surface
+```
+
+For comparison, the same panel on niri: runs clean with zero errors and three
+mapped `gtk4-layer-shell` surfaces.