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HYPRLAND THEME FIXES LAND ACROSS OMARCHY

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Two critical Hyprland theme conversions shipped overnight, clearing out legacy .conf files and fixing gradient border syntax errors that were breaking runtime.

Omarchy completed its migration away from deprecated Hyprland .conf syntax by converting last-horizon and solitude themes to Lua [1], bringing them in line with kanagawa, lumon, and ret which had already made the jump. The conversion matters because Hyprland dropped support for the old config format, and these stragglers were the last holdouts. But the conversion alone wasn't enough: both themes shipped with malformed gradient border declarations [2] that caused invalid color errors at runtime. The fix was surgical - gradient colors in Lua must be tables, not space-separated strings, a distinction the initial conversion missed. Archlinux/archinstall moved in parallel with Italian translation updates [3], including a fix for a misspelled source string that would have cascaded through localization.

Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on May 17, 2026?
Two critical Hyprland theme conversions shipped overnight, clearing out legacy .conf files and fixing gradient border syntax errors that were breaking runtime. In total, 6 commits and 3 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Linux on May 17, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including rahmatov-abdullaxon, imanubdesigner, and vanmatten.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Convert last-horizon and solitude themes from hyprlang to Lua, Fix gradient border syntax in last-horizon and solitude themes, and Update Italian translation + fix a string.