diff --git a/quickshell/bar/Bar.qml b/quickshell/bar/Bar.qml
index 1f0e063..ff4c756 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/Bar.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/Bar.qml
@@ -128,16 +128,11 @@ PanelWindow {
         implicitWidth: Theme.padM * 2
         implicitHeight: Theme.barHeight
 
-        Rectangle {
+        Skew {
             anchors.centerIn: parent
             width: 1
             height: 20
             color: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.9)
-
-            transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 20 * Theme.skew,
-                                     0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/BarPill.qml b/quickshell/bar/BarPill.qml
index 3cd055d..611c3c5 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/BarPill.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/BarPill.qml
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ Item {
     readonly property real ruleInset: 5
     readonly property real ruleBand: root.standalone ? 0 : root.ruleHeight + root.ruleInset
 
+    // Modules with a notion of progress (the player's track position) draw it in
+    // the same band, so it can never be struck through the content. A module
+    // cannot do this for itself: anything it declares becomes a child of the
+    // content holder, whose bottom edge is above the band, and the rule lands
+    // across the text instead of under it. Negative means "no progress".
+    property real progress: -1
+
     // Total horizontal inset a module must add on top of its content width.
     readonly property real contentPad: standalone
         ? (panelLoader.item?.contentPad ?? root.padding)
@@ -100,16 +107,24 @@ Item {
         height: root.ruleHeight
         clip: true
 
-        Rectangle {
+        // Track progress, shown until the pointer arrives and the hover rule
+        // takes the band over.
+        Skew {
+            height: parent.height
+            width: parent.width * Math.max(0, Math.min(1, root.progress))
+            color: Theme.accent
+            visible: root.progress >= 0 && !root.hovered && !root.active
+
+            Behavior on width {
+                NumberAnimation { duration: 480; easing.type: Easing.OutQuad }
+            }
+        }
+
+        Skew {
             height: parent.height
             width: root.hovered || root.active ? parent.width : 0
             color: root.accent
 
-            transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 2 * Theme.skew,
-                                     0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-            }
-
             Behavior on width {
                 NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durBase; easing.type: Easing.OutExpo }
             }
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/Clock.qml b/quickshell/bar/Clock.qml
index 08c0ebe..0cbf91c 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/Clock.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/Clock.qml
@@ -50,15 +50,11 @@ BarPill {
             }
         }
 
-        Rectangle {
+        Skew {
             anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
             width: 2
             height: 22
             color: Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.6)
-            transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 22 * Theme.skew,
-                                     0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-            }
         }
 
         SplitText {
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/MediaPill.qml b/quickshell/bar/MediaPill.qml
index aa33344..969b584 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/MediaPill.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/MediaPill.qml
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ BarPill {
     padding: Theme.padS
     visible: Media.hasPlayer || width > 1
 
+    // Track position, drawn by the pill in its own rule band.
+    progress: Media.canSeek ? Media.progress : -1
+
     implicitWidth: Media.hasPlayer
         ? layout.implicitWidth + contentPad * 2
         : 0
@@ -83,12 +86,21 @@ BarPill {
             }
         }
 
+        // Title and artist size to the text, up to a cap.
+        //
+        // These used to be a flat 130px wide each, which meant a short title
+        // still reserved 130px and left a hand-sized hole between the artist and
+        // the equaliser — the pill looked broken rather than compact. They take
+        // what they need now and only start scrolling past the cap.
         Column {
+            id: meta
             anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
             spacing: 0
 
+            readonly property real cap: 150
+
             Marquee {
-                width: 130
+                width: Math.min(meta.cap, implicitWidth)
                 height: 14
                 text: Media.title || Media.identity
                 color: Theme.text
@@ -99,7 +111,7 @@ BarPill {
             }
 
             Marquee {
-                width: 130
+                width: Math.min(meta.cap, implicitWidth)
                 height: 12
                 text: Media.artist || Media.album || Media.identity
                 color: Theme.muted
@@ -146,22 +158,6 @@ BarPill {
         }
     }
 
-    // Track progress, hairline along the bottom of the pill.
-    Rectangle {
-        anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
-        anchors.bottomMargin: 3
-        anchors.left: parent.left
-        anchors.leftMargin: root.leanInset
-        width: Math.max(0, (root.width - root.leanInset * 2) * Media.progress)
-        height: 2
-        color: Theme.accent
-        visible: Media.canSeek
-
-        Behavior on width {
-            NumberAnimation { duration: 480; easing.type: Easing.OutQuad }
-        }
-    }
-
     onVisibleChanged: if (visible) titleGlitch.restart()
 
     Connections {
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/NotifButton.qml b/quickshell/bar/NotifButton.qml
index bd2572e..b0854e8 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/NotifButton.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/NotifButton.qml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ BarPill {
     }
 
     // Unread badge, chopped like everything else.
-    Rectangle {
+    Skew {
         visible: Notifs.unread > 0 && !Notifs.dnd
         anchors.right: parent.right
         anchors.rightMargin: 2
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ BarPill {
         height: 12
         color: Theme.accent
 
+        // The badge count stays upright. It used to inherit the shear from the
+        // transform on the block below, which at 8px left the digits smeared.
         Text {
             id: badge
             anchors.centerIn: parent
@@ -55,11 +57,6 @@ BarPill {
             font.weight: Font.Bold
             renderType: Text.NativeRendering
         }
-
-        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 12 * Theme.skew,
-                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-        }
     }
 
     Connections {
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/Rail.qml b/quickshell/bar/Rail.qml
index c675215..6f62722 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/Rail.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/Rail.qml
@@ -177,17 +177,12 @@ PanelWindow {
         implicitWidth: Theme.railWidth
         implicitHeight: Theme.padM + 4
 
-        Rectangle {
+        Skew {
             anchors.centerIn: parent
             width: 22
             height: 1
+            vertical: true
             color: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.9)
-
-            transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, 0, 0, 0,
-                                     -Theme.skew, 1, 0, 22 * Theme.skew / 2,
-                                     0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-            }
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/Resources.qml b/quickshell/bar/Resources.qml
index 09f8631..04a7e12 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/Resources.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/Resources.qml
@@ -49,15 +49,11 @@ BarPill {
         }
     }
 
-    component Divider: Rectangle {
+    component Divider: Skew {
         anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
         width: 1
         height: 18
         color: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.8)
-        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 18 * Theme.skew,
-                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-        }
     }
 
     // The CPU/MEM/GPU labels are gone: three characters of chrome per metric,
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/Tray.qml b/quickshell/bar/Tray.qml
index badd95f..35a394a 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/Tray.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/Tray.qml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import Quickshell.Services.SystemTray
 import Quickshell.Widgets
 import "root:/config"
 import "root:/components"
+import "root:/popouts"
 
 // StatusNotifier tray, as a vertical column for the right-hand rail. Left click
 // activates, right click opens the app's own menu, middle click is the
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ Column {
                 acceptedButtons: Qt.LeftButton
                 onTapped: {
                     if (entry.modelData.onlyMenu) {
-                        menuAnchor.open();
+                        menu.toggle();
                     } else {
                         entry.modelData.activate();
                     }
@@ -81,7 +82,9 @@ Column {
 
             TapHandler {
                 acceptedButtons: Qt.RightButton
-                onTapped: menuAnchor.open()
+                onTapped: {
+                    if (entry.modelData.hasMenu) menu.toggle();
+                }
             }
 
             TapHandler {
@@ -90,13 +93,10 @@ Column {
             }
 
             // Menus open to the left, into the screen rather than off its edge.
-            QsMenuAnchor {
-                id: menuAnchor
-                menu: entry.modelData.menu
-                anchor.item: entry
-                anchor.edges: Edges.Left
-                anchor.gravity: Edges.Left
-                anchor.margins.right: Theme.popoutGap
+            TrayMenu {
+                id: menu
+                anchorItem: entry
+                menuHandle: entry.modelData.menu
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/quickshell/bar/Workspaces.qml b/quickshell/bar/Workspaces.qml
index bc3fd6c..ae6d433 100644
--- a/quickshell/bar/Workspaces.qml
+++ b/quickshell/bar/Workspaces.qml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Item {
                     }
                 }
 
-                Rectangle {
+                Skew {
                     id: tick
                     anchors.fill: parent
 
@@ -89,18 +89,10 @@ Item {
                         if (pip.occupied) return Theme.alpha(Theme.text, 0.5);
                         return "transparent";
                     }
-                    border.color: pip.occupied || pip.focused
+                    borderColor: pip.occupied || pip.focused
                         ? "transparent"
                         : Theme.alpha(Theme.text, 0.35)
-                    border.width: 1
-
-                    transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                        matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(
-                            1, -Theme.skew, 0, pip.height * Theme.skew,
-                            0, 1, 0, 0,
-                            0, 0, 1, 0,
-                            0, 0, 0, 1)
-                    }
+                    borderWidth: 1
 
                     Behavior on color {
                         ColorAnimation { duration: Theme.durBase }
diff --git a/quickshell/components/MeterBar.qml b/quickshell/components/MeterBar.qml
index 39fbef1..658ea04 100644
--- a/quickshell/components/MeterBar.qml
+++ b/quickshell/components/MeterBar.qml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import QtQuick
 import "root:/config"
+import "root:/components"
 
 // A segmented load meter — slanted ticks that light up left to right. Reads as
 // a gauge at a glance and keeps the panel language consistent.
@@ -31,9 +32,10 @@ Item {
                 width: root.segmentWidth
                 height: root.height
 
-                Rectangle {
+                Skew {
                     width: root.segmentWidth
                     height: root.height
+                    lean: root.lean
                     color: parent.index < root.litCount ? root.activeColor : root.idleColor
 
                     // Peak segments glow, so a pegged CPU is visible peripherally.
@@ -41,14 +43,6 @@ Item {
                         ? (parent.index >= root.segments - 2 ? 1.0 : 0.9)
                         : 1.0
 
-                    transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                        matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(
-                            1, -root.lean, 0, root.height * root.lean,
-                            0, 1, 0, 0,
-                            0, 0, 1, 0,
-                            0, 0, 0, 1)
-                    }
-
                     Behavior on color {
                         ColorAnimation { duration: Theme.durBase }
                     }
diff --git a/quickshell/components/NotifCard.qml b/quickshell/components/NotifCard.qml
index 6c2ef9a..209876c 100644
--- a/quickshell/components/NotifCard.qml
+++ b/quickshell/components/NotifCard.qml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import QtQuick
 import Quickshell
 import Quickshell.Services.Notifications
 import "root:/config"
+import "root:/components"
 import "root:/services"
 
 // One notification, used both in the history list and as a floating toast.
@@ -17,14 +18,20 @@ Item {
 
     signal dismissed()
 
+    // The card's own geometry, published so anything drawn along its edges —
+    // the toast countdown rule — can stay inside the chopped corners instead of
+    // running out past them.
+    readonly property real lean: 0.05
+    readonly property real chop: 12
+
     implicitHeight: panel.height
 
     P5Panel {
         id: panel
         width: parent.width
         height: layout.implicitHeight + Theme.padM * 2
-        lean: 0.05
-        chop: 12
+        lean: root.lean
+        chop: root.chop
         fill: Theme.surface
         fillOpacity: 0.97
         border: Theme.alpha(root.tone, hover.hovered ? 0.95 : 0.5)
@@ -117,18 +124,13 @@ Item {
                         implicitWidth: actionLabel.implicitWidth + Theme.padM
                         implicitHeight: 22
 
-                        Rectangle {
+                        Skew {
                             anchors.fill: parent
                             color: actionHover.hovered
                                 ? Theme.alpha(root.tone, 0.3)
                                 : Theme.alpha(root.tone, 0.1)
-                            border.width: 1
-                            border.color: Theme.alpha(root.tone, 0.6)
-
-                            transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                                matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 22 * Theme.skew,
-                                                     0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-                            }
+                            borderWidth: 1
+                            borderColor: Theme.alpha(root.tone, 0.6)
                         }
 
                         Text {
diff --git a/quickshell/components/P5Slider.qml b/quickshell/components/P5Slider.qml
index 2cb351a..4b1d8e4 100644
--- a/quickshell/components/P5Slider.qml
+++ b/quickshell/components/P5Slider.qml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import QtQuick
 import "root:/config"
+import "root:/components"
 
 // Leaning slider with a chopped handle. Drag or click anywhere on the rail.
 Item {
@@ -17,33 +18,23 @@ Item {
     readonly property real _lean: Theme.skew * height
 
     // Rail
-    Rectangle {
+    Skew {
         id: rail
         anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
         anchors.left: parent.left
         anchors.right: parent.right
         height: 6
         color: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.7)
-
-        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 6 * Theme.skew,
-                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-        }
     }
 
     // Fill
-    Rectangle {
+    Skew {
         anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
         anchors.left: parent.left
         width: Math.max(0, Math.min(1, root.value)) * root.width
         height: 6
         color: root.enabledControl ? root.accent : Theme.muted
 
-        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 6 * Theme.skew,
-                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-        }
-
         Behavior on width {
             enabled: !drag.active
             NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast }
@@ -55,7 +46,7 @@ Item {
     }
 
     // Handle
-    Rectangle {
+    Skew {
         id: handle
         width: 6
         height: hover.hovered || drag.active ? 18 : 14
@@ -63,11 +54,6 @@ Item {
         anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
         x: Math.max(0, Math.min(1, root.value)) * root.width - width / 2
 
-        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, height * Theme.skew,
-                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-        }
-
         Behavior on height {
             NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast; easing.type: Easing.OutBack }
         }
diff --git a/quickshell/components/Skew.qml b/quickshell/components/Skew.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fbed52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickshell/components/Skew.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Shapes
+import "root:/config"
+import "root:/components"
+
+// A leaning block — the small-scale counterpart to P5Panel.
+//
+// Every tick, rule, meter segment and slider rail in this shell leans at
+// Theme.skew. Shearing a plain Rectangle with a Matrix4x4 does that, but Qt
+// rasterises a Rectangle's geometry with no antialiasing at all, so the slanted
+// edges come out as a hard pixel staircase — at 18px tall that staircase is
+// most of what you see, and it reads as broken rendering rather than as a
+// deliberate angle. Drawing the parallelogram as a Shape with the curve
+// renderer gets analytic coverage AA on the diagonals instead.
+//
+// Drop-in for a sheared Rectangle: set width/height as before and use `color`,
+// `borderColor` and `borderWidth` the same way.
+Shape {
+    id: root
+
+    property color color: "transparent"
+    property color borderColor: "transparent"
+    property real borderWidth: 0
+
+    // Lean of the vertical edges as a fraction of height, matching P5Panel.
+    property real lean: Theme.skew
+    property bool leanLeft: false
+
+    // Wide, short pieces — the rail's hairline rules — slant their horizontal
+    // edges by a fraction of width instead, exactly as P5Panel does for the
+    // rail slab.
+    property bool vertical: false
+
+    preferredRendererType: Shape.CurveRenderer
+    asynchronous: false
+
+    ShapePath {
+        fillColor: root.color
+        strokeColor: root.borderWidth > 0 ? root.borderColor : "transparent"
+        strokeWidth: root.borderWidth
+        joinStyle: ShapePath.MiterJoin
+        capStyle: ShapePath.FlatCap
+
+        PathPolyline {
+            path: {
+                const w = root.width, h = root.height, l = root.lean;
+                if (root.vertical)
+                    return Geom.closed(root.leanLeft ? Geom.parallelogramVL(w, h, l)
+                                                     : Geom.parallelogramV(w, h, l));
+                return Geom.closed(root.leanLeft ? Geom.parallelogramL(w, h, l)
+                                                 : Geom.parallelogram(w, h, l));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/quickshell/lock/LockFace.qml b/quickshell/lock/LockFace.qml
index 6709e75..bda8486 100644
--- a/quickshell/lock/LockFace.qml
+++ b/quickshell/lock/LockFace.qml
@@ -231,17 +231,12 @@ Item {
                 Repeater {
                     model: Math.min(surface.entry.length, 22)
 
-                    Rectangle {
+                    Skew {
                         required property int index
                         width: 10
                         height: 20
                         color: surface.failed ? Theme.accent : Theme.primary
 
-                        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 20 * Theme.skew,
-                                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-                        }
-
                         // Each new block snaps in.
                         Component.onCompleted: pop.start()
                         NumberAnimation {
diff --git a/quickshell/overlays/Toasts.qml b/quickshell/overlays/Toasts.qml
index 4341c59..f00d7bc 100644
--- a/quickshell/overlays/Toasts.qml
+++ b/quickshell/overlays/Toasts.qml
@@ -82,12 +82,24 @@ PanelWindow {
                 }
 
                 // Countdown rule that drains along the bottom edge.
-                Rectangle {
+                //
+                // It used to be a full-bleed rectangle across the whole toast,
+                // which meant it ran straight through the card's chopped
+                // bottom-left corner and out the other side — a stray bar
+                // hanging off the card at the one place the silhouette is
+                // supposed to be cut. It lives inside the cut now, and ends
+                // where the leaning right edge does.
+                readonly property real fuseSpan: Math.max(0,
+                    width - card.chop - card.implicitHeight * card.lean)
+
+                Skew {
                     id: fuse
                     anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
-                    anchors.left: parent.left
+                    anchors.bottomMargin: 1
+                    x: card.chop
                     height: 2
-                    width: parent.width
+                    width: toast.fuseSpan
+                    lean: card.lean
                     color: Theme.alpha(card.tone, 0.7)
                     visible: life.running
                 }
@@ -96,7 +108,7 @@ PanelWindow {
                     id: life
                     target: fuse
                     property: "width"
-                    from: toast.width
+                    from: toast.fuseSpan
                     to: 0
                     running: false
                     duration: Notifs.timeoutFor(toast.modelData)
diff --git a/quickshell/popouts/CalendarPopout.qml b/quickshell/popouts/CalendarPopout.qml
index fc51d86..8fe3b97 100644
--- a/quickshell/popouts/CalendarPopout.qml
+++ b/quickshell/popouts/CalendarPopout.qml
@@ -127,17 +127,12 @@ Popout {
                     height: 30
 
                     // Today gets a leaning crimson slab.
-                    Rectangle {
+                    Skew {
                         anchors.centerIn: parent
                         width: 26
                         height: 24
                         visible: cell.modelData.today
                         color: Theme.accent
-
-                        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 24 * Theme.skew,
-                                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-                        }
                     }
 
                     Text {
@@ -229,16 +224,11 @@ Popout {
         implicitWidth: 22
         implicitHeight: 22
 
-        Rectangle {
+        Skew {
             anchors.fill: parent
             color: stepHover.hovered ? Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.25) : "transparent"
-            border.width: 1
-            border.color: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.7)
-
-            transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 22 * Theme.skew,
-                                     0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-            }
+            borderWidth: 1
+            borderColor: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.7)
         }
 
         Icon {
diff --git a/quickshell/popouts/MediaPopout.qml b/quickshell/popouts/MediaPopout.qml
index ef48c22..ca6b32b 100644
--- a/quickshell/popouts/MediaPopout.qml
+++ b/quickshell/popouts/MediaPopout.qml
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ Popout {
     id: root
 
     contentWidth: 400
-    contentHeight: 200 + (Media.players.length > 1 ? 34 : 0)
+
+    // The seek row used to sit flush against the bottom edge, where the slab's
+    // chamfer cuts the corner away — the elapsed time was half outside the
+    // panel. The extra height is the room that row needs to clear the cut.
+    contentHeight: 224 + (Media.players.length > 1 ? 34 : 0)
 
     PopoutSurface {
         id: surface
@@ -176,8 +180,10 @@ Popout {
             id: seekArea
             anchors.left: parent.left
             anchors.right: parent.right
+            anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padS
+            anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padS
             anchors.bottom: picker.visible ? picker.top : parent.bottom
-            anchors.bottomMargin: Theme.padS
+            anchors.bottomMargin: picker.visible ? Theme.padS : Theme.padM
             height: 26
             visible: Media.hasPlayer
 
@@ -236,18 +242,13 @@ Popout {
                     implicitWidth: chipLabel.implicitWidth + Theme.padM
                     implicitHeight: 22
 
-                    Rectangle {
+                    Skew {
                         anchors.fill: parent
                         color: chip.current
                             ? Theme.alpha(Theme.primary, 0.22)
                             : (chipHover.hovered ? Theme.alpha(Theme.primary, 0.1) : "transparent")
-                        border.width: 1
-                        border.color: chip.current ? Theme.primary : Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.7)
-
-                        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, 22 * Theme.skew,
-                                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-                        }
+                        borderWidth: 1
+                        borderColor: chip.current ? Theme.primary : Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.7)
                     }
 
                     Text {
@@ -285,23 +286,18 @@ Popout {
         implicitWidth: primary ? 38 : 30
         implicitHeight: primary ? 38 : 30
 
-        Rectangle {
+        Skew {
             anchors.fill: parent
             color: {
                 if (!tb.enabledControl) return "transparent";
                 if (tbHover.hovered) return tb.primary ? Theme.accent : Theme.alpha(Theme.primary, 0.22);
                 return tb.primary ? Theme.alpha(Theme.primary, 0.18) : "transparent";
             }
-            border.width: tb.primary ? 2 : 1
-            border.color: tb.enabledControl
+            borderWidth: tb.primary ? 2 : 1
+            borderColor: tb.enabledControl
                 ? (tbHover.hovered ? Theme.text : Theme.alpha(Theme.primary, 0.6))
                 : Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.4)
 
-            transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, tb.height * Theme.skew,
-                                     0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-            }
-
             Behavior on color {
                 ColorAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast }
             }
diff --git a/quickshell/popouts/NetPopout.qml b/quickshell/popouts/NetPopout.qml
index 5ca4836..91d4e6c 100644
--- a/quickshell/popouts/NetPopout.qml
+++ b/quickshell/popouts/NetPopout.qml
@@ -202,16 +202,11 @@ Popout {
 
         implicitHeight: 40
 
-        Rectangle {
+        Skew {
             anchors.fill: parent
             color: Theme.alpha(rateBlock.tone, 0.08)
-            border.width: 1
-            border.color: Theme.alpha(rateBlock.tone, 0.35)
-
-            transform: Matrix4x4 {
-                matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -Theme.skew, 0, rateBlock.height * Theme.skew,
-                                     0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-            }
+            borderWidth: 1
+            borderColor: Theme.alpha(rateBlock.tone, 0.35)
         }
 
         Row {
diff --git a/quickshell/popouts/PopoutHeader.qml b/quickshell/popouts/PopoutHeader.qml
index 17932b1..57129db 100644
--- a/quickshell/popouts/PopoutHeader.qml
+++ b/quickshell/popouts/PopoutHeader.qml
@@ -59,15 +59,12 @@ Item {
         color: Theme.alpha(root.accent, 0.8)
     }
 
-    Rectangle {
+    Skew {
         anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
         anchors.right: parent.right
         width: 16
         height: 2
         color: Theme.accent
-        transform: Matrix4x4 {
-            matrix: Qt.matrix4x4(1, -1.4, 0, 2.8,
-                                 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
-        }
+        lean: 1.4
     }
 }
diff --git a/quickshell/popouts/TrayMenu.qml b/quickshell/popouts/TrayMenu.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3cf399
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickshell/popouts/TrayMenu.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import QtQuick
+import Quickshell
+import Quickshell.Hyprland
+import "root:/config"
+import "root:/components"
+
+// The tray's context menu, on the shell's own slab.
+//
+// Quickshell can hand a StatusNotifier menu straight to Qt's platform menu
+// implementation, but that draws a stock widget popup — square corners, system
+// palette, no lean — hanging off the corner of a shell that has none of those
+// things. This walks the menu with QsMenuOpener instead and draws it as a
+// P5Panel, so a right click on a tray icon produces the same object language as
+// everything else on the rail.
+//
+// Dismissal is a Hyprland focus grab: click anywhere outside and the compositor
+// tells us to close.
+PopupWindow {
+    id: root
+
+    required property Item anchorItem
+    property var menuHandle: null
+
+    // Room around the slab for the entry overshoot and the offset black copy.
+    readonly property int bleed: 20
+    readonly property int minWidth: 160
+    readonly property int maxWidth: 320
+
+    // The slab's own lean and padding, which the entries sit inside. Sizing the
+    // window to the entry widths alone left every label short by that inset and
+    // elided perfectly ordinary items.
+    readonly property real slabLean: 0.06
+    readonly property real slabPad: Theme.padS
+
+    readonly property real contentHeight: list.implicitHeight + slabPad * 2
+    readonly property real contentWidth:
+        Math.max(root.minWidth, Math.min(root.maxWidth, list.menuWidth))
+        + (slabPad + contentHeight * slabLean) * 2
+
+    anchor.item: anchorItem
+    anchor.edges: Edges.Left
+    anchor.gravity: Edges.Left
+    anchor.adjustment: PopupAdjustment.SlideY
+    anchor.margins.right: Theme.popoutGap
+
+    implicitWidth: contentWidth + bleed * 2
+    implicitHeight: contentHeight + bleed * 2
+    color: "transparent"
+    visible: shown
+
+    property bool shown: false
+
+
+    function open() {
+        if (!menuHandle) return;
+        closeAnim.stop();
+        shown = true;
+        openAnim.restart();
+    }
+
+    function close() {
+        if (!shown) return;
+        openAnim.stop();
+        closeAnim.restart();
+    }
+
+    function toggle() {
+        if (shown) close(); else open();
+    }
+
+    // The grab can only take hold once the popup is actually mapped. Asked for
+    // in the same tick as `shown`, Hyprland has no surface to hand it and
+    // clears it immediately — which closed the menu the instant it opened.
+    Timer {
+        id: grabDelay
+        interval: 60
+        running: root.shown
+    }
+
+    HyprlandFocusGrab {
+        active: root.shown && !grabDelay.running
+        windows: [root]
+        onCleared: root.close()
+    }
+
+    Item {
+        id: holder
+        x: root.bleed
+        y: root.bleed
+        width: root.contentWidth
+        height: root.contentHeight
+
+        opacity: 0
+        scale: 0.94
+        transformOrigin: Item.Right
+
+        PopoutSurface {
+            anchors.fill: parent
+            tone: Theme.accent
+            padding: root.slabPad
+            chop: 12
+            lean: root.slabLean
+
+            TrayMenuList {
+                id: list
+                anchors.top: parent.top
+                anchors.left: parent.left
+                anchors.right: parent.right
+                // Only walk the menu while it is on screen. Bound unconditionally,
+                // every tray app would get a GetLayout the moment the shell
+                // starts, for a menu nobody has asked for yet.
+                menuHandle: root.shown ? root.menuHandle : null
+                onActivated: root.close()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    ParallelAnimation {
+        id: openAnim
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: holder; property: "opacity"
+            to: 1.0; duration: Theme.durBase; easing.type: Easing.OutExpo
+        }
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: holder; property: "scale"
+            to: 1.0; duration: Theme.durSlow; easing.type: Easing.OutBack
+        }
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: holder; property: "x"
+            from: root.bleed + 14; to: root.bleed
+            duration: Theme.durSlow; easing.type: Easing.OutBack
+        }
+    }
+
+    ParallelAnimation {
+        id: closeAnim
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: holder; property: "opacity"
+            to: 0.0; duration: Theme.durFast; easing.type: Easing.InQuad
+        }
+        NumberAnimation {
+            target: holder; property: "scale"
+            to: 0.96; duration: Theme.durFast; easing.type: Easing.InQuad
+        }
+        onFinished: {
+            root.shown = false;
+            holder.x = root.bleed;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/quickshell/popouts/TrayMenuList.qml b/quickshell/popouts/TrayMenuList.qml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6bfbcf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickshell/popouts/TrayMenuList.qml
@@ -0,0 +1,262 @@
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Effects
+import Quickshell
+import Quickshell.Widgets
+import "root:/config"
+import "root:/components"
+
+// One level of a StatusNotifier menu, drawn in the shell's own language.
+//
+// Submenus expand inline rather than opening a second window: a tray menu is
+// two or three items deep at most, and a stack of leaning slabs chasing each
+// other across the screen would read as clutter. The type nests itself for
+// child levels, so this file is the whole menu.
+Column {
+    id: root
+
+    // A QsMenuHandle — either the item's root menu or a submenu entry.
+    required property var menuHandle
+
+    // Raised by any level when an entry is actually invoked, so the window can
+    // close itself.
+    signal activated()
+
+    // What the window should size itself to. Deliberately NOT `implicitWidth`.
+    //
+    // A Column takes its implicit width from how wide its children ended up, and
+    // the rows are stretched to the Column's own width so a hover block can span
+    // the entry. Sizing the window off that closes the loop — window width feeds
+    // row width feeds Column implicit width feeds window width — and it does not
+    // settle: each pass adds a float epsilon, so the shell spins at 100% CPU
+    // forever. Slack's menu was the first to hit it and it took the whole bar
+    // down with it, past the reach of anything but SIGKILL. Measuring the
+    // strings against the font instead keeps sizing entirely out of the layout.
+    readonly property real menuWidth: {
+        let w = 0;
+        for (const e of (opener.children?.values ?? [])) {
+            if (e.isSeparator) continue;
+            let ew = fm.advanceWidth(root.clean(e.text)) + Theme.padM * 2 + Theme.padS * 2;
+            if (e.buttonType !== QsMenuButtonType.None || e.icon !== "")
+                ew += 16 + Theme.padS;
+            if (e.hasChildren) ew += 18;
+            w = Math.max(w, ew);
+        }
+        return w;
+    }
+
+    // DBus menus carry Qt's mnemonic underscores; nothing here handles
+    // accelerators, so they would just be stray marks.
+    function clean(s: string): string {
+        return String(s ?? "").replace(/_([^_])/g, "$1");
+    }
+
+    spacing: 0
+
+    FontMetrics {
+        id: fm
+        font.family: Theme.fontMono
+        font.pixelSize: Theme.fsSmall
+        font.weight: Theme.weightBody
+    }
+
+    QsMenuOpener {
+        id: opener
+        menu: root.menuHandle
+    }
+
+    Repeater {
+        model: opener.children
+
+        Item {
+            id: row
+
+            required property var modelData
+            readonly property var entry: modelData
+            readonly property bool interactive: entry.enabled && !entry.isSeparator
+            readonly property bool hovered: rowHover.hovered && interactive
+
+            // Submenus stay collapsed until asked for.
+            property bool expanded: false
+
+            // Height only. Width is the Column's business — see `menuWidth`.
+            implicitHeight: entry.isSeparator ? 9 : 26 + sub.height
+
+            width: root.width
+
+            // ------------------------------------------------------ separator
+            //
+            // A horizontal rule slants by a fraction of its own width, so at
+            // menu width the house lean turns a hairline into a 30px diagonal
+            // gash straight across the entries above and below it. The rise is
+            // pinned in pixels instead, matching the rail's dividers.
+            Skew {
+                anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                visible: row.entry.isSeparator
+                width: parent.width - Theme.padM * 2
+                x: Theme.padM
+                height: 1
+                vertical: true
+                lean: width > 0 ? 5 / width : 0
+                color: Theme.alpha(Theme.outline, 0.9)
+            }
+
+            // ----------------------------------------------------------- item
+            Item {
+                id: line
+                width: parent.width
+                height: row.entry.isSeparator ? 0 : 26
+                visible: !row.entry.isSeparator
+
+                // Hover is a solid crimson block, the same statement the
+                // workspace ticks and the rail icons make.
+                Skew {
+                    anchors.fill: parent
+                    anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padS
+                    anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padS
+                    color: row.hovered ? Theme.accent : "transparent"
+
+                    Behavior on color {
+                        ColorAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // Check mark / radio dot, or the entry's own icon. Both occupy
+                // the same slot so the labels line up either way.
+                Item {
+                    id: leading
+                    anchors.left: parent.left
+                    anchors.leftMargin: Theme.padM
+                    anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                    width: row.entry.buttonType !== QsMenuButtonType.None
+                        || row.entry.icon !== "" ? 16 : 0
+                    height: 12
+
+                    Skew {
+                        anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                        visible: row.entry.buttonType !== QsMenuButtonType.None
+                        width: 10
+                        height: 10
+                        borderWidth: 1
+                        borderColor: row.hovered ? Theme.ink : Theme.alpha(Theme.text, 0.6)
+                        color: row.entry.checkState === Qt.Checked
+                            ? (row.hovered ? Theme.ink : Theme.accent)
+                            : "transparent"
+                    }
+
+                    IconImage {
+                        anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                        visible: row.entry.buttonType === QsMenuButtonType.None
+                            && row.entry.icon !== ""
+                        width: 14
+                        height: 14
+                        source: row.entry.icon
+                        asynchronous: true
+
+                        // Same flattening the tray icons get — brand colour in
+                        // a two-hue palette is the one thing that breaks it.
+                        layer.enabled: true
+                        layer.effect: MultiEffect {
+                            colorization: 1.0
+                            colorizationColor: row.hovered ? Theme.ink : Theme.text
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                Text {
+                    id: label
+                    anchors.left: leading.right
+                    anchors.leftMargin: leading.width > 0 ? Theme.padS : Theme.padM
+                    anchors.right: arrow.left
+                    anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padS
+                    anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+
+                    text: root.clean(row.entry.text)
+                    elide: Text.ElideRight
+                    color: !row.entry.enabled
+                        ? Theme.muted
+                        : (row.hovered ? Theme.ink : Theme.text)
+                    font.family: Theme.fontMono
+                    font.pixelSize: Theme.fsSmall
+                    font.weight: Theme.weightBody
+                    renderType: Text.NativeRendering
+                }
+
+                Text {
+                    id: arrow
+                    anchors.right: parent.right
+                    anchors.rightMargin: Theme.padM
+                    anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
+                    width: row.entry.hasChildren ? 18 : 0
+                    visible: row.entry.hasChildren
+                    text: row.expanded ? "" : ""
+                    color: row.hovered ? Theme.ink : Theme.subtext
+                    font.family: Theme.fontIcon
+                    font.pixelSize: Theme.fsMicro
+                }
+
+                HoverHandler {
+                    id: rowHover
+                    enabled: row.interactive
+                    cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
+                }
+
+                TapHandler {
+                    enabled: row.interactive
+                    onTapped: {
+                        if (row.entry.hasChildren) {
+                            row.expanded = !row.expanded;
+                        } else {
+                            row.entry.triggered();
+                            root.activated();
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            // ------------------------------------------------------- submenu
+            Item {
+                id: sub
+                anchors.top: line.bottom
+                width: parent.width
+                height: subLoader.item ? subLoader.item.implicitHeight : 0
+                clip: true
+                visible: height > 0
+
+                Behavior on height {
+                    NumberAnimation { duration: Theme.durFast; easing.type: Easing.OutExpo }
+                }
+
+                // Loaded by URL rather than as an inline component: QML rejects
+                // a type that instantiates itself, even lazily, and a menu tree
+                // is the one place recursion is the natural shape.
+                Loader {
+                    id: subLoader
+                    x: Theme.padM
+                    width: parent.width - Theme.padM
+
+                    onLoaded: item.activated.connect(root.activated)
+                }
+
+                Connections {
+                    target: row
+
+                    function onExpandedChanged() {
+                        if (row.expanded)
+                            subLoader.setSource(Qt.resolvedUrl("TrayMenuList.qml"),
+                                                { menuHandle: row.entry });
+                        else
+                            subLoader.source = "";
+                    }
+                }
+
+                Skew {
+                    x: Theme.padS
+                    width: 1
+                    height: parent.height
+                    visible: row.expanded
+                    color: Theme.alpha(Theme.accent, 0.8)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/quickshell/shell.qml b/quickshell/shell.qml
index 2338158..1a25566 100644
--- a/quickshell/shell.qml
+++ b/quickshell/shell.qml
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-//@ pragma UseQApplication
-
 import QtQuick
 import Quickshell
 import "root:/config"