Copal
The desktop overlay of Amber Linux: one keypress covers your screen with everything in the Ambrosia store, magnified under wherever you are looking. The name is the resin stage between fresh sap and hardened amber — Ambrosia is the hardened store, Copal the still-workable layer you see on the desktop.
What it is
Every note, one keypress
Alt+Shift+A covers the desktop with all your notes at once; Esc and it is gone. A surface whose job is to vanish, not a window you manage.
A fisheye, not a list
Notes magnify under the pointer as you move. Press an arrow key and the board slides instead, so the selected note always arrives centred and readable.
Three layouts
Grid, spiral and wave, switched with 1, 2 and 3 — the same notes arranged for scanning, for recency, or for fun.
Reads the amber store
The notes come from Ambrosia over the session D-Bus, read-only. Copal is the surface; Ambrosia keeps the data.
One window, one canvas
A transparent, override-redirect window covering the screen, every note drawn into a single Cairo canvas — fifty notes with a live fisheye stays smooth.
Lives in the tray
Copal speaks StatusNotifierItem directly — no toolkit — and copal --tray starts hidden at login with just the icon.
The shape of it
No window per note, no toolkit in the hot path: the whole overlay is a single override-redirect window and a single canvas, redrawn as the fisheye follows you. The notes themselves never live here — Ambrosia keeps them, and Copal asks over the bus.
Where it stands
Copal shows your real notes, read-only, and installs from the Amber Linux archive today: sudo apt install copal. Editing on the surface is what makes it v1. If you would like to help build it, the projects live in the Hyperquader-Coders org — new hands are welcome.