diff --git a/dotfiles/quickshell/LeftFlyout.qml b/dotfiles/quickshell/LeftFlyout.qml
index 37b3f15..7728368 100644
--- a/dotfiles/quickshell/LeftFlyout.qml
+++ b/dotfiles/quickshell/LeftFlyout.qml
@@ -1100,6 +1100,16 @@ Rectangle {
                 }
                 var url = "https://danbooru.donmai.us/autocomplete.json?search%5Bquery%5D="
                     + encodeURIComponent(partial) + "&search%5Btype%5D=tag_query&limit=8";
+                // If a previous keystroke's request is still in flight (curl
+                // hasn't returned yet), reassigning .command and setting
+                // .running = true on an already-running Process is a no-op
+                // — running:true -> true is not a change, so nothing
+                // restarts and the newer query silently never gets sent.
+                // That's the "sometimes works, sometimes not" flakiness:
+                // explicitly stop it first so the new request actually
+                // fires.
+                if (autocompleteProc.running) autocompleteProc.running = false;
+                autocompleteProc.requestedPartial = partial;
                 autocompleteProc.command = ["curl", "-s", "-A", booruCol.userAgent, url];
                 autocompleteProc.running = true;
             }
@@ -1211,8 +1221,15 @@ Rectangle {
             }
             Process {
                 id: autocompleteProc
+                property string requestedPartial: ""
                 stdout: StdioCollector {
                     onStreamFinished: {
+                        // Drop stale responses: even with the running-guard
+                        // above, a slow request can still resolve after a
+                        // faster, newer one — without this check whichever
+                        // curl happens to finish last wins, regardless of
+                        // which one actually matches what's typed now.
+                        if (autocompleteProc.requestedPartial !== booruCol.currentPartialTag()) return;
                         try {
                             var d = JSON.parse(text);
                             booruCol.suggestions = Array.isArray(d) ? d : [];
@@ -1354,7 +1371,20 @@ Rectangle {
                         anchors.fill: parent
                         hoverEnabled: true
                         cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
-                        onClicked: { booruSettings.lewds = booruCol.lewds ? "0" : "1"; booruCol.doSearch(); }
+                        onClicked: {
+                            // save() here, not just the property assignment:
+                            // this was the actual persistence bug — toggling
+                            // Lewds never wrote to disk on its own, only the
+                            // source-switcher below called save(). So Lewds
+                            // only ever "stuck" as a side effect of also
+                            // switching source afterward, and turning it
+                            // back off never stuck at all — reopening Booru
+                            // always reloaded whatever was last written that
+                            // way instead of the toggle's actual state.
+                            booruSettings.lewds = booruCol.lewds ? "0" : "1";
+                            booruSettings.save();
+                            booruCol.doSearch();
+                        }
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -1468,7 +1498,16 @@ Rectangle {
                     }
 
                     // -- Pagination --
-                    Row {
+                    // Flow, not Row: Row lays out children at their natural
+                    // width regardless of the width assigned to the Row
+                    // itself, so when Prev + "Page" + the page field + "of
+                    // N" + Next added up to more than booruCol.width (which
+                    // happened often enough — "of N" varies in width with
+                    // page count, and it was already close to the edge) the
+                    // Next button rendered past the flyout's right edge,
+                    // off the visible screen. Flow wraps overflow onto a
+                    // second line instead of spilling past the edge.
+                    Flow {
                         visible: !booruCol.searching && (booruCol.page > 1 || booruCol.hasNextPage)
                         width: booruCol.width
                         spacing: 8
diff --git a/dotfiles/quickshell/RightBar.qml b/dotfiles/quickshell/RightBar.qml
index 58008cc..03400fb 100644
--- a/dotfiles/quickshell/RightBar.qml
+++ b/dotfiles/quickshell/RightBar.qml
@@ -76,7 +76,19 @@ PanelWindow {
                 delegate: IconImage {
                     id: trayIcon
                     implicitSize: 18
-                    source: Quickshell.iconPath(modelData.icon, "")
+                    // Only resolve through the icon theme when this is
+                    // actually a themed icon name (e.g. Steam's
+                    // "steam_tray_mono"). Apps that only ever supply a raw
+                    // IconPixmap over the SNI protocol and no IconName at
+                    // all (confirmed via busctl: Vesktop's tray item has no
+                    // IconName property) get an already-usable image:// URL
+                    // back from modelData.icon instead — running that
+                    // through iconPath(), a name/path resolver, mangled it
+                    // into nothing, which is what rendered as a broken-
+                    // texture checkerboard instead of the actual icon.
+                    source: modelData.icon.includes("://")
+                        ? modelData.icon
+                        : Quickshell.iconPath(modelData.icon, "")
                     MouseArea {
                         anchors.fill: parent
                         hoverEnabled: true
diff --git a/hyprland/hyprland.conf b/hyprland/hyprland.conf
index 90fa09d..7a1a105 100644
--- a/hyprland/hyprland.conf
+++ b/hyprland/hyprland.conf
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ source = ~/.config/hypr/display.conf
 # TTY) since only one agent can be registered at a time.
 exec-once = mako
 exec-once = hyprpaper
+# Reapplies whatever wallpaper was last set — hyprpaper/mpvpaper start every
+# session with nothing loaded, and wallpaper-set never persisted anything
+# on its own (see modules/scripts/wallpaper-set.sh, wallpaper-restore.sh).
+exec-once = wallpaper-restore
 exec-once = quickshell
 
 # GTK/Qt apps native-Wayland where possible, X11 fallback otherwise
diff --git a/modules/desktop.nix b/modules/desktop.nix
index 107911d..d4c3cf3 100644
--- a/modules/desktop.nix
+++ b/modules/desktop.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,13 @@
   services.greetd = {
     enable = true;
     settings.default_session = {
-      command = "${pkgs.tuigreet}/bin/tuigreet --time --remember --remember-session --cmd Hyprland";
+      # start-hyprland, not the raw Hyprland binary: it's Hyprland's own
+      # watchdog-wrapped launcher (ships alongside Hyprland in the same
+      # package) that also auto-restarts the compositor if it hangs.
+      # Launching the raw binary directly works but logs a startup warning
+      # ("Hyprland is being launched without start-hyprland. This is highly
+      # advised against.") and skips that recovery.
+      command = "${pkgs.tuigreet}/bin/tuigreet --time --remember --remember-session --cmd start-hyprland";
       user = "greeter";
     };
   };
diff --git a/modules/scripts.nix b/modules/scripts.nix
index 1a02d8c..fa6d770 100644
--- a/modules/scripts.nix
+++ b/modules/scripts.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ let
   showDesktopToggle = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "show-desktop-toggle" (builtins.readFile ./scripts/show-desktop-toggle.sh);
   wallpaperSet = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "wallpaper-set" (builtins.readFile ./scripts/wallpaper-set.sh);
   wallpaperDelete = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "wallpaper-delete" (builtins.readFile ./scripts/wallpaper-delete.sh);
+  wallpaperRestore = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "wallpaper-restore" (builtins.readFile ./scripts/wallpaper-restore.sh);
   displaySet = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "display-set" (builtins.readFile ./scripts/display-set.sh);
   hyprThemeSet = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "hypr-theme-set" (builtins.readFile ./scripts/hypr-theme-set.sh);
   gtkThemeSet = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "gtk-theme-set" (builtins.readFile ./scripts/gtk-theme-set.sh);
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ in
     showDesktopToggle
     wallpaperSet
     wallpaperDelete
+    wallpaperRestore
     displaySet
     hyprThemeSet
     gtkThemeSet
diff --git a/modules/scripts/wallpaper-restore.sh b/modules/scripts/wallpaper-restore.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7fbbbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/scripts/wallpaper-restore.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Reapplies the last-set wallpaper on login/reboot. hyprpaper and mpvpaper
+# both start every session with nothing loaded, and wallpaper-set only ever
+# ran through live IPC with no persistence of its own — without this the
+# desktop silently reverted to blank on every fresh login. Run via
+# exec-once in hyprland.conf, after hyprpaper.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+state_file="$HOME/.config/hypr/wallpaper.conf"
+[ -f "$state_file" ] || exit 0
+
+# hyprpaper's IPC socket isn't guaranteed ready the instant exec-once fires
+# it, since exec-once entries all start back-to-back with no ordering
+# guarantee beyond process spawn order.
+for _ in $(seq 1 50); do
+    hyprctl hyprpaper listactive > /dev/null 2>&1 && break
+    sleep 0.1
+done
+
+bash "$state_file"
diff --git a/modules/scripts/wallpaper-set.sh b/modules/scripts/wallpaper-set.sh
index 6ff7e3a..b5e6a4d 100755
--- a/modules/scripts/wallpaper-set.sh
+++ b/modules/scripts/wallpaper-set.sh
@@ -58,3 +58,12 @@ case "${image,,}" in
         hyprctl hyprpaper wallpaper ",$image,$fit_mode" > /dev/null
         ;;
 esac
+
+# Persist so the wallpaper survives a reboot/relogin. hyprpaper/mpvpaper
+# both start every session with nothing loaded — this was previously only
+# ever set at runtime via IPC, so the desktop silently reverted to blank
+# every fresh login. wallpaper-restore (exec-once in hyprland.conf, after
+# hyprpaper starts) re-runs the exact command saved here.
+state_file="$HOME/.config/hypr/wallpaper.conf"
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$state_file")"
+printf 'wallpaper-set %q %q %q %q %q\n' "$image" "$fit_mode" "$muted" "$speed" "$auto_pause" > "$state_file"