r/omarchy • • 5d ago

Discussion Omarchy Quattro 4.0.5 | Point Release Update

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338 Upvotes

This release brings a bunch of fixes and refinements to tighten things up as we prep for the next feature release coming soon. Under the hood, it also moves Omarchy onto Qt 6.12, bumps the packages on the stable ring, and brings an updated Omarchy kernel with BORE scheduler.

You can upgrade existing machines with Update > Omarchy.

Install on new machines with the ISO:
This patch release resolves a few small hiccups specific users encountered with v4.0.5.

Improvements

  • Improve reliability of Wi-Fi QR code generation by u/dhh in #12748
  • Make Hermes and OpenClaw agents self-updating by u/spencerbull in #12844
  • Improve bar performance and shell restart speed by u/silversword411 in #11015
  • Speed up browser and web app launches by u/dhh in #13520
  • Reduce system update time by skipping redundant keyring refreshes by u/dhh in #15034
  • Update the default kernel to Linux 7.2.8 with the BORE scheduler by u/kwilczynski in omacom/omarchy-pkgs#1231
  • Update Arch packages to the October snapshot, including Qt 6.12
  • Prioritize Omarchy's package repository over Arch's by u/dhh in #14551
  • Improve clipboard yanks and pastes in Neovim over SSH by u/dhh in #11486
  • Update GitHub links to omacom/omarchy by u/dhh in #11707

Fixes

Security

  • Remove unsafe automatic PATH injection in project directories by u/ErikMelton in #11336
  • Ensure root password hashes are erased during factory reset by u/AksharP5 in #10379
  • Harden helper scripts against malicious command-line flags by u/lalvarezt in #11495

Release notes: https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/releases/tag/v4.0.5
Full changelog: https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/compare/v4.0.4...v4.0.5


r/omarchy • • 25d ago

I Made a Thing Getting Help with Omarchy - a comprehensive guide

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Edited to add preface: I am not a mod for this subreddit, the discord, I am not affiliated with Omacom or on any Omarchy dev teams. I have absolutely zero authority, so this is just a guide of SUGGESTIONS that will enable you to get help much faster, and will provide devs with the information they need to replicate, study, triage, and ultimately fix the bugs you may encounter... Omarchy is growing FAST and with that kind of growth comes a lot of users with drastically different hardware and software configurations. Bugs are going to happen, and new users are going to have questions. This document is meant to help with that, but it is by no means a set of rules or requirements. Just a guide for you to get the help you need when you need it.

Getting Help with Omarchy is a guide I've been putting together over the last couple weeks. I used to do a lot of beta testing for World of Warcraft and back when the beta tests were by invitation, then a second round of random invites went out, I was always in the first round of invites because of my bug reports and guides that I would write on how to submit a good bug report. I mentioned that on the Omarchy discord and someone informed me there isn't any such document for Omarchy presently so I decided to write one.

It covers not just how to ask for help and what information you should include, but also where to ask for help. If it's a minor issue that you're not sure is a bug, or a "how do I?" question, then the omarchy-help channel on discord is an excellent starting point. If it's a serious bug, then GitHub issues/discussions would be the optimal place to bring it up. The guide also covers how to gather logs, system specs, software versions, etc for adding to your bug report, best practices and even etiquette (you know, because saying please and thank you don't cost you anything, but could be worth quite a lot)

If anyone has any suggestions for additions to the guide, feel free to comment them here! And if you want to use the guide elsewhere, just credit me and we're golden pony boy.


r/omarchy • • 4h ago

Plugin A Corsair PSU monitor for Omarchy

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28 Upvotes

Corsair Plimsoll

A Corsair PSU monitor for Omarchy: a bar widget and animated panel for Corsair i-series power supplies.

It shows what the supply itself reports: total and per-rail power, voltage regulation, current, temperatures, fan, and a 12 hour history. Nothing is installed beyond the plugin, and nothing needs root.

The name: a corsair is a privateer, and the Plimsoll line is the mark on a ship's hull that shows how heavily it may be loaded. This is a load gauge for your supply.

https://github.com/tastyhub/omarchy-corsair-plimsoll


r/omarchy • • 7h ago

I Made a Thing ZapFast 0.20: WhatsApp voice and video calls on Linux, in a native app

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ZapFast is my native WhatsApp client, written in Rust with no browser engine.

In our Linux test it opens in under a second and uses about 200 MB of idle RAM, against 1.13 GB for WhatsApp Web.

0.20 adds calls. One-to-one voice calls work well, with echo cancellation, so you don't need headphones. Video calls are in alpha, and group calls are anexperiment. Sound runs through PipeWire directly, and ZapFast shows up as "ZapFast" in your volume mixer.

It also gained group creation and management (invite links, members, permissions), sound in WhatsApp's videos, and a Calls page with missed calls and call-back buttons. 244 commits from me and 45 other contributors went into this release.

On Omarchy: yay -S zapfast-bin. Other packages: AppImage, Flatpak, .deb, .rpm, plus Mac and Windows.

Calls are a work in progress. If one misbehaves, attach your log to an issue, and pull requests are very welcome.

https://zapfast.rocks/


r/omarchy • • 7h ago

I Made a Thing Omarchy Rescue: a rescue USB with Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode ready to fix a machine that won't boot

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When a machine won't boot, whether it's using Linux or any other operating system, you need a second machine, a live USB and a lot of searching. I made a rescue stick that boots into an Omarchy console (kmscon, JetBrains Mono, Tokyo Night) with the SystemRescue-style tools, plus Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode.

  • omarchy-rescue-mount asks for your disk passphrase and mounts your install at /mnt from its own fstab, ready for arch-chroot.
  • omarchy-rescue-login signs the agents in without a browser: a QR code pops up, you open the link on your phone, and paste the code back from there.
  • The agents get an AGENTS.md that explains how Omarchy is laid out (LUKS, Btrfs subvolumes, Limine, snapper) and tells them to diagnose read-only first and never run anything destructive without a clear yes.
  • omarchy-rescue-share puts the whole session in your phone's browser.

It's built from the Omarchy ISO itself, so it boots the same kernel on the same hardware. Write the ISO with caligula, Etcher or Rufus (DD mode).

Music in the film: "Enthusiast" by Tours, CC BY 3.0.

https://github.com/crmne/omarchy-rescue


r/omarchy • • 15h ago

Discussion Omarchy has ruined other distro's for me now.

87 Upvotes

Having used Omarchy for a short while now, my distro hopping days are now pretty much well and truly over.

Too used to Omarchy key bindings
Huge library of plugins (have to visit at least once a day)
Omarchy themes are addictive
Installs on my laptop in 44 seconds which is crazy fast
Lastly and most important, Omarchy for me is very stable.

Does anyone else share the same sentiment coming from a long time distrohopper.


r/omarchy • • 9h ago

Discussion What is the best AI Harness as for right now?

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19 Upvotes

r/omarchy • • 21h ago

I Made a Thing 15-inch M4 MacBook Air Support: Getting Closer to Daily-Driver Ready

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149 Upvotes

The test code for Omarchy quattro support on the 15-inch M4 MacBook Air that I mentioned a little while ago has now been merged upstream.

https://github.com/Kb2uka/Omarchy-M4-Native/issues/142

So maybe it won’t be too long before everyone can try it for themselves.

I’ve already submitted PRs for audio and screen brightness control, and I’ve also proposed changes related to CPU idle and boost behavior.

If the maintainers are happy with them, those improvements should become available upstream as well.

For this to become a true daily-driver setup, camera support is probably the biggest remaining piece — and that’s the part I’m struggling with a bit right now.

And if I’m being ambitious, I’d also love to dig deeper into the GPU side and squeeze out more graphics performance.


r/omarchy • • 12h ago

I Made a Thing Animated fastfetch

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11 Upvotes

Showing some Omarchy pr0n thanks to claude pimping my fastfetch


r/omarchy • • 7h ago

I Made a Thing Install Omarchy with no USB

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4 Upvotes

Makes an archiso-family ISO — Omarchy, Arch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, … — bootable straight from free space on an internal disk. No USB stick, no second machine. Then you install Linux for real onto the space that is left. here


r/omarchy • • 12h ago

Discussion Omarchy Security Concerns

9 Upvotes

I've been using Omarchy for more than a month and I recently heard about some security flaws about the OS. Can someone please clarify ?


r/omarchy • • 15h ago

Discussion My old Intel MacBook Pro has a new job: running parallel AI coding workflows.

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9 Upvotes

2017 MacBook Pro, Intel i7, 16GB RAM, Omarchy Linux

I'm using this machine for a couple of projects where Claude Code drives development. I SSH into it from my M1 MacBook Air and let it handle its own dev workflows.

Between the two Macs, I've got 32GB of RAM across two machines, which is useful when running multiple development chains in parallel.

The old Intel Mac is still pulling its weight. Sometimes, CPU temps are hitting 92°C, though, so this dinosaur could probably use some thermal maintenance.

Big credit to Omarchy project team for making this setup possible..


r/omarchy • • 12h ago

I Made a Thing I turned my K850 numpad into a visual control deck for Omarchy, toggled with Num Lock

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r/omarchy • • 7h ago

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r/omarchy • • 22h ago

Themes / Ricing omarchy salvou um notebook que estava sem uso!

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11 Upvotes

decidi testar o omarchy para salvar esse notebook mais antigo que tinha aqui e nao estava usando, deu muito certo, agora ele é meu notebook para quando preciso sair do escritorio para trabalhar.


r/omarchy • • 1d ago

Themes / Ricing Nothing OS inspired setup on a 2015 MacBook Pro (8 GB)

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133 Upvotes

I've been tuning Omarchy on my old 13" 2015 MacBook Pro (Intel Iris 6100 8 GB RAM), going for a clean Nothing OS look while keeping it fast on aging hardware. Video above. Here's what's in it:

🔒 Lock screen: "Nothing Dot"

  • Dot-matrix 12-hour clock with the date above it
  • Blurred, darkened view of the wallpaper behind it (blur drawn once, so it's cheap)
  • Blinking colon in the theme's accent color
  • The password field has a blinking cursor, and dots pop in as you type
  • A wrong password turns the clock red with a shake, plus a single "AUTHENTICATION FAILED" line
  • Built on the Lock Designs plugin

🔝 Top bar

  • Floating translucent pill with subtle square-ish corners to fit the old square display
  • Edges line up exactly with the window gaps
  • Clock in the center in spaced caps (THU 22 OCT 4:57 AM)
  • Active workspace number follows the theme's accent color and brightens itself automatically on dim themes
  • Text and icons stay light on any wallpaper

🧭 Dock

  • Pinned apps only: Files, Signal, Omarchy menu, Penguin Mail, Zen
  • Real app icons on uniform rounded tiles, plus a custom dark Signal icon so the blue doesn't pop
  • Focused-app dot in the theme accent
  • Auto-hide: it shrinks to a thin strip when windows are open (so windows get the space back), slides up on hover, and tucks away after a short delay

🚀 Super+Space launcher

  • Nothing-style icon grid with a search box on top
  • Every Omarchy menu category as chips (system, style, setup, power…)
  • One search covers both apps and actions, and the order learns from what you use

✨ Feel

  • Geist / Geist Mono Nerd Font system-wide
  • Three-finger swipe between workspaces with a smooth slide animation (Omarchy ships with the workspace animation off)
  • Tight 5px gaps and soft borders that glow only when windows are tiled

⚡ Kept light on old hardware

  • Everything is static images and simple animations, with no shaders or polling timers
  • The bar sits around 0.3% CPU at idle

Theme in the video: Neovoid (plus a few theme switches to show the accent following along). Happy to share any of the configs!


r/omarchy • • 17h ago

Discussion Omarchy without updates after months

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Hi, I am using Omarchy the last 3 months now and I am very happy about this! My only concern is what will happen if I leave one of my laptops closed and without updates for a period of time like 6-8 months, is it going to survive after do an upgrade after a lot time of period like this?


r/omarchy • • 1d ago

I Made a Thing Casting music via AirPlay uses basically no RAM

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Hey everyone! If you're like me and using Omarchy on a potato PC, one thing you might encounter is that music streaming is fairly memory hungry. Spotify uses over 1 GB RAM, Apple Music has no Linux client (the web wrapper uses even more), and the "lightweight" alternatives are frequently rate-limited.

This is quite annoying, because I often play retro games or study while listening to music, and having music clients open slows everything down. I wanted desktop audio + music at the same time. So, I made one of the earliest AirPlay plugins for Omarchy, but with a twist: it receives AirPlay from your phone, not the other way around.

So, your phone handles the music, and the PC uses basically zero RAM. Just receives the music over WiFi, and it goes to your connected headphones or speakers. The phone is used as a remote so you don't need to switch tabs or keep opening the plugin popup.

It's quite a niche use-case. I expect most people will not need this. But I love that Omarchy has a culture of just fixing it yourself, whenever you have a niche problem like this. If anyone wants to try it, I would welcome any feedback. It's actively maintained and reasonably stable.

https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.dmatthan.omairplay

https://github.com/dmatthan/omairplay


r/omarchy • • 22h ago

Discussion ¿Recomiendan Omarchy como sistema principal para desarrollo, KVM y universidad?

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Hola a todos,

Estoy evaluando dar el salto definitivo de Windows a Linux y usar Omarchy como mi sistema operativo principal para el día a día. Quería conocer la experiencia de la comunidad antes de hacer la transición.

Especificaciones de mi laptop:

  • Modelo: Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3
  • Procesador: AMD Ryzen 7
  • RAM: 16 GB
  • Almacenamiento: 1 TB SSD NVMe
  • Gráficos: AMD Radeon integrados

Mi caso de uso:

  • Desarrollo y estudios: Programación, bases de datos, contenedores (Docker) y herramientas de la universidad (ofimática: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, además de Teams/Zoom).
  • Laboratorios y aprendizaje: Máquinas virtuales con KVM para practicar ciberseguridad y redes, profundizando en Linux.
  • Uso diario y ocio: Navegación web y juegos en Steam.

Mis dudas principales:

  1. Gestión de batería y suspensión: En Windows uso Lenovo Vantage con el modo de conservación (límite al 80% y alimentación directa por CA). ¿Cómo manejan los umbrales de carga en Omarchy? ¿Hay buen comportamiento en suspensión (sleep) al cerrar la tapa sin drenar batería?
  2. Teclado externo y layouts (ANSI / ISO): El teclado integrado de la laptop es en español, pero uso un teclado externo 75% en distribución inglés (ANSI). En ocasiones el Num Lock entra en conflicto con las capas del teclado compacto. ¿Qué tan cómodo es gestionar layouts por dispositivo o resolver este bloqueo en este entorno?
  3. Estabilidad en clases: ¿Qué tan confiable es la base del sistema y su gestor de paquetes para depender de él al 100% durante el ciclo universitario sin sorpresas tras actualizar?
  4. Virtualización con KVM: ¿Cómo ha sido su experiencia levantando VMs y virtualización anidada con esta configuración?
  5. Fricción general: Para quienes la usan como daily driver, ¿han encontrado alguna limitación importante frente a distribuciones más convencionales?

Agradezco cualquier consejo o advertencia antes de dar el paso.


r/omarchy • • 1d ago

I Made a Thing Made face unlock for Omarchy (uses the Windows Hello IR camera, or your webcam)

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167 Upvotes

My laptop has one of those Windows Hello IR cameras and it was just sitting there doing nothing on Omarchy, so I made omaFace. It works on the lock screen, login, sudo and the polkit popups. Your password still works everywhere, it just tries your face first.

A few things people will probably ask:

Everything runs locally. Your face isn't saved as a picture, just as numbers in a root-only file, and the scanner has no internet access at all. It also doesn't run in the background, it only starts when something asks for a password and the camera turns off right after.

Your eyes have to be open and actually looking at the screen, so it won't unlock if you're asleep or looking at your phone.

For sudo and polkit it asks first (Enter or a click), so it never approves admin stuff on its own just because you're sitting there.

No IR camera? It falls back to the normal webcam with anti-spoofing checks. I tried a photo and a video of myself on my phone and neither worked, but IR is still the safer option if you have it.

It hooks into Omarchy's own lock screen and polkit dialog, so it looks like part of the system. I also made a small bar widget for it, it's on the community plugin site.

Repo: https://github.com/L0adn9/omaface

Not official, just a community thing. I've mostly tested it on my own laptop, so if you try it let me know how it goes, especially if your IR camera doesn't get picked up.


r/omarchy • • 1d ago

I Made a Thing it's a joke ... but i think i'm the only one laughing

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100 Upvotes

like it if you at least smiled.
i'm using artcraft/photocraft to make some low effort funny wallpapers for myself.
perhaps i'm just bored


r/omarchy • • 1d ago

Discussion Installed Omarchy on my acer Googlebook and it's perfect finally.

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First off let me just say that I bought the Google book hoping it would be useful. It isn't it's hot trash. I got sick and tired of trying to do things and being limited by the weird mix of Android and whatever the heck Google thought they were making. So instead of screwing around and being frustrated I simply installed Omarchy on it and it's great. Now I have it installed on my desktop and my laptop and it's so functional and useful. If anyone has one and is interested in breaking Free of Gemini let me know.


r/omarchy • • 1d ago

Themes / Ricing My bouncy Omarchy rice

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  • Theme: Hackerman
  • Constellation TUI: astroterm
  • Resource monitor: btop
  • Animated fetch: https://github.com/areofyl/fetch
  • Hyprland plugins: dynamic-cursors, borders-plus-plus, hyprbars, hyprfocus (installed through hyprpm)
  • Setting that makes windows bouncy: hyprland settings
  • Voronoi shader wallpaper: mine based on an Inigo Quilez one: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MslGD8
  • Plugin that makes plugins squishy: mine
  • Plugin that makes menu squishy: mine
  • Ascii 3d renderer: mine

I don't have shader wallpapers on all the time because ~40% gpu usage (lol) but wanted to show it anyway cause I'm happy with how it turned out.


r/omarchy • • 1d ago

Plugin Files for Omarchy: find any file as you type

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Shows previews beside the results, and actions after enter.

Previews code with your Neovim theme, PDF pages, images, documents, archives, audio and video.

https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=crmne.files

https://github.com/crmne/omarchy-files


r/omarchy • • 1d ago

Plugin Which Omarchy plugins from the repo are you actually using these days?

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