# `system`

The desktop's appearance settings, from the XDG desktop portal and
followed live, and the machine's host name, kernel and uptime.

| Field | Type | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `dark` | `bool` | The desktop prefers a dark style. |
| `accent` | `color?` | The desktop's accent colour, if it sets one. |
| `contrast` | `float` | The contrast preference, as `material(contrast:)` takes it: 0 for normal, 1 for high. |
| `reduced_motion` | `bool` | Motion should be reduced: springs snap, and loops, time signals and effects stop. |
| `hostname` | `text` | The machine's host name. |
| `kernel` | `text` | The running kernel's release, as `uname -r` gives it: `6.11.2-arch1-1`. |
| `uptime` | `duration` | Time since boot (suspend included), to the minute: `dur(system.uptime)` reads `3 h 12 min`. It changes once a minute, and only while a visible reader shows it. |
| `replay` | `bool rw` | The glitch-report recording is on: Strand keeps the last minute or so of what drove the shell in memory for `strand report`. Writable; false empties it at once, and the choice is kept across restarts. |