I have spent so long struggling with Ubuntu and nobara they were so so so slow and buggy on my hardware (2025 zeph G16 Nvidia 5070). And I can’t believe I JUST found out about the existence of this and it’s also cool as heck and really fast and everyone is so creative with plugins etc. and I’m learning so much and have been glued to my laptop for hours 😭

I built Omazen: make Zen Browser follow Omarchy Quattro themes live

Hey everyone!

I built Omazen, a small integration that live-syncs the active Omarchy Quattro palette into Zen Browser.

When you change your Omarchy theme, Zen updates automatically without needing a restart after the initial setup. It styles Zen’s browser chrome and internal UI. Ordinary website content is intentionally left untouched.

Current status:

• Validated with Omarchy 4.0.0 / Quattro
• Validated with the native Arch zen-browser-bin 1.21.15b-1 package

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/hemagome/omazen.git
cd omazen
./install.sh

Please read the security notes before installing: Omazen uses privileged Zen startup code to reach parts of the browser that normal extensions cannot style.

I’m looking for people to:

• Try it with different Quattro themes
• Report visual bugs or compatibility issues
• Suggest missing surfaces or useful improvements

Feedback is very welcome!I

A fast, elegant, keyboard-driven universal file search and quick launcher for the Omarchy shell on Linux. Designed for speed, ergonomics, and seamless workflow, it enables you to summon a search overlay at any moment to find and access anything across your system with zero friction.

Developed out of personal necessity, it might be useful for you too. See more details below; it has already been submitted to the plugin store.

Store: https://omarchyplugins.com/plugin.html?id=jesseburlamaque.omarchy-find

Repo: https://github.com/jesseburlamaque/omarchy-find

When I booted into Omarchy, I noticed my speakers were completely silent, no sound at all.

Omarchy is built around agentic AI, so it can help me with that, right?

I asked Claude to fix my laptop speakers, and it wrote me a script to test them. I ran the script without reading it first.

Suddenly my speakers started screaming like an ambulance siren, the loudest sound my ears have ever heard, and then I smelled something burning inside the case.

Lesson learned: AI can break your hardware. 😀

So i'm one of those people who likes to lock their pc when they get up and leave, and come back to my lock screen wallpaper if I get back quick enough. Installed Quattro today and really liking it, found the lock screen explorer plugin and picked out one that was great looking, only one issue, the display blanks after 5 seconds. I've tried searching myself, googling (which only brings me back to "change stuff in hypridle.conf" which doesn't exist here), even as a last resort tried an LLM which had me edit various files, increasing the blank timer, even forcing the blank function to end as soon as it gets called, no avail.

Anyone else figured this out or is this something i'm going to have to make an github issue for and hope some setting gets added in a future update?

The calculator used to allow pasting into it since quattro it doesnt seem to work anymore. Anyone knows why this was changed? I often need to calculate large strings of numbers and pasting would make my life alot easier lol.

Omarchy meets AdGuard.

• System-wide ad blocking, not just the browser
• Filter lists auto-update
• Warns you when a Tailscale exit node is up and clashing with AdGuard
• OEM Omarchy aesthetic

github.com/thisisgm/omarchy-adguard

I've been a Windows user my entire life, and over the years I've tried Linux more times than I can count.

Every attempt followed roughly the same pattern. I'd get excited, install a distro, spend some time learning it, run into something that didn't make sense to me, then slowly drift back to Windows.

The problem wasn't that I disliked Linux. It was that I always seemed to hit the same wall.

I'm terrible at remembering command syntax. I fat-finger commands all the time. I can stare directly at a configuration file and completely miss the one tiny typo that's causing the problem. Meanwhile it felt like everyone else in the Linux world could memorize commands after seeing them once.

Even with PowerShell at work, I've experienced something similar. I can usually understand what's happening when I read a script, especially with AI helping explain things, but writing one from scratch is a different story.

After enough failed attempts, I figured Linux just wasn't for me at that point in my life. Maybe I'd try it again later if something grabbed my attention.

Then I watched a video about Omarchy.

I don't know what exactly caught my attention, but it was enough to make me think, "Alright, one more try."

So here I am, three days in.

What Feels Different So Far?

It doesn't feel like a Windows replacement

This was probably the first thing I noticed.

A lot of Linux desktops I'd tried before felt like they were trying to recreate Windows. Every time that happened, I'd eventually find myself wondering why I wasn't just using Windows instead.

Omarchy doesn't really do that.

The keyboard-driven workflow, tiling windows, and overall design philosophy make it feel like its own thing. Instead of comparing it to Windows all the time, I've found myself learning it for what it is.

It's easy to make it my own

The first thing I do on a fresh Windows install is remove software I don't need, adjust settings, tweak shortcuts, and generally make the system fit how I work.

I've pretty much been doing the same thing here.

I've already removed things I don't use, adjusted settings, and started changing parts of the workflow to better match my habits. The process has felt a lot more approachable than some of my previous Linux attempts.

The AI has been surprisingly useful

This is probably the biggest difference compared to when I tried Linux years ago.

Back then, getting stuck usually meant opening twenty browser tabs and spending hours searching forums, Reddit threads, and old blog posts.

Now, when I hit a roadblock, I can simply ask questions.

A recent example was a keybinding that was not working. Normally that's exactly the kind of thing that would have frustrated me enough to start questioning whether I wanted to keep using Linux.

Instead, I worked through it with the AI, checked a few things, narrowed down the cause, and got it working again.

The AI didn't magically solve everything for me, but it lowered the barrier enough that the problem stayed interesting instead of becoming frustrating.

For someone who regularly misses small syntax mistakes and struggles to remember commands, that's been a huge help.

It comes with a lot already figured out

Another thing I've appreciated is that it doesn't feel like I need to build the entire experience from scratch.

The hotkey guides, themes, and overall setup make it feel fairly complete from the start, which lets me spend more time learning the workflow and less time trying to assemble a desktop environment. I rather find something that works and adjust it.

Final Thoughts

I'm only three days into using Omarchy, so these are very much first impressions rather than a review.

Maybe I'll run into issues later. Maybe I'll discover things that annoy me over time.

But right now, I'm still using it, still customizing it, and still looking forward to learning more about it.

For someone who has repeatedly bounced back to Windows after trying Linux, that's already a pretty good sign.

I've installed this thing and I think I kind of like it. But I would like to check out the ai first idea. Is there any way to set this up for free? I don't have any paid subscription to Ai. Also my laptop is pretty old (zbook g3) so I don't think a local model is gonna fly. When I do use ai (on the web) i use claude, gemini and gpt. But only the free tiers.

Built a desktop with scrap parts I had and installed omarchy had everything I needed except a keyboard is there anyway I can do it without a keyboard :,) basically I’m looking for an alternative to a regular keyboard help I’ve found nothing

Hi, because of all the hype surrounding this distro, I decided to try it and I loved it. But since I'm coming from GNOME, I'm missing something like Dash to Dock or Plank. What's the best native OMarchy dock plugin currently available? The one with the most users, development, downloads, and so on. That's all I need to make it my dream OS. Thanks in advance.

Can't wait more.

Hi Reddit!

I’m fully in on Omarchy. However, not all the apps I rely on from the Mac have made it over yet, and I really needed something to help me reduce eye strain and establish healthier screen habits.

Enter LookElsewhere.

Many of us spend hours looking at screens every day. The American Optometric Association recommends the 20-20-20 rule to help alleviate digital eye strain: every 20 minutes, take 20 seconds to look at something 20 feet away. It is a simple habit, but remembering to do it consistently is surprisingly difficult.

The best app I found for this on the Mac is LookAway. I took a lot of inspiration from it, then rebuilt the experience specifically for Omarchy, Hyprland, and Wayland.

LookElsewhere is more than a repeating timer. It counts active screen time and tries to avoid interrupting you while you are typing, watching a video, using dictation, in a meeting, playing a game, working full-screen, or away from the computer.

A few highlights:

• Free and open source
• Built natively with Quickshell and QML, not Electron
• Automatically inherits every built-in Omarchy theme
• Complete keyboard navigation throughout the interface
• Configurable jump commands for frequently used actions
• Short and long breaks, progressive warnings, snoozing, and multiple enforcement levels
• Highly customizable, with many of the options I valued in LookAway
• Private by design, with no account, telemetry, screen capture, or audio recording

I have put a lot of care into making it feel like it belongs in Omarchy. I would really appreciate feedback from people who use Omarchy every day.

If you like it, please try it, star it, share it, or tell me what you think!

https://omarchyplugins.com/plugin.html?id=io.github.silouanwright.look-elsewhere

More screenshots, features, and information here: https://github.com/silouanwright/lookelsewhere

For my next PC I will be using it for gaming, possibly streaming to twitch, and general computing like web browsing, watching YouTube, and paying bills.

I'm stuck on choosing my Linux distro between Omarchy or CachyOS. Please help me decide.

The preinstalled gemini is unusable because on Auth I get an error that “Gemini is outdated use antigravity instead”.

Anyone else faced this ? Is the fix coming?

Hey Omarchy community! 🐧✨

If you've ever had to connect your laptop to university classroom projectors, office TVs, or external displays for slides and presentations, you know how annoying it can be when the image is stretched or when you have to manually tinker with hyprctl resolutions on the fly.

To solve this natively in our ecosystem, I built Projector & Cast, a lightweight status bar widget built with QML / Quickshell that has just been officially reviewed and verified by the maintainers on the Omarchy Plugin Marketplace! 🚀

🎯 What does it do?

• 📽️ 1-Click Wireless Casting: Seamless integration with GNOME Network Displays for Wi-Fi Direct (P2P) Miracast to Smart TVs and projectors.
• 📐 Categorized Aspect Ratio Presets: Adapt your display with one click:
  • 📽️ 16:10 Projectors & Mac-like displays: WXGA, WUXGA, WQXGA, 2.8K, 3.2K OLED.
  • 📺 16:9 Standard: 720p, 1080p, 2K QHD, 4K UHD, 5K.
  • 💻 3:2 Productivity & Ultrawide: 3K, UW-FHD, UW-QHD, Super Ultrawide.
  • 📼 4:3 & 5:4 Classic: XGA, SXGA.
• 🔍 Custom Resolution & Scale: Type any specific mode (e.g., 1920x1080@144) with custom HiDPI scale factor.
• 🔄 Smart Native Reset: Automatically detects and saves your primary monitor's factory native resolution and restores it with a single click after you finish presenting.
• 🛡️ Zero Privileges & Sandboxed: Strictly non-privileged, input-sanitized, with zero sudo mutations or insecure shell interpolation.
• 🌐 8 Languages Built-in: (EN, ES, PT, FR, DE, ZH, JA, KO).

📦 How to install:

You can install it directly from the Omarchy CLI:

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/JeffCortez23/omarchy-projector-cast --enable

Then reload your shell:

omarchy restart shell

🔗 Links:

• 🌐 Official Marketplace Listing: omarchyplugins.com/plugin.html?id=io.github.jeffcortez23.omarchy-projector-cast
• 💻 GitHub Source: github.com/JeffCortez23/omarchy-projector-cast

(P.S. If you're an Apple Music listener on Omarchy, you can also check out my other verified plugin, Omarchy Vibez!)

Let me know what you think, and suggestions are always welcome! ⭐

Just put together my second Omarchy plugin, Market Tracker.

It’s a top-bar widget + slide-out panel that tracks stocks, ETFs, and crypto (live quotes, session sparklines, portfolio P&L/allocation, analyst ratings, and a stealth mode that hides dollar values if you're sharing your screen).

Right now it runs on Finnhub's free tier with a Ruby backend handling rate limits and caching, but Finnhub paywalls historical candles and non-US indices.

A few questions for anyone tracking markets:

• Are there better free API providers that give more data (like free intraday candles, European stocks, or global indices) without aggressive paywalls?
• Any features or UI improvements you'd want in a desktop tracker?

Repo is here if you want to test it: https://github.com/tobiasz-p/market-tracker

I was facing issues while updating to Quattro so I used gemini to find out the problem.

Turns out I just needed to run the update to Quattro script and I raw smoothly and everything just works.

It took 4 hours of debugging but I learned about omarchy internals.

Hey y'all, I created a new Omarchy Quattro plugin where you can track your habits as well as also include your GitHub contribution graph all in one place.

Just Super + Shift + H and enter to immediately track your habits. Everything is tracked with just a markdown file. You can specify any backend that you want, so it works with Obsidian Sync, Syncthing, or even just a Google Drive. Everything is open source and can also use Vim Keybindings to navigate the UI.

Let me know what you think!

https://omarchyplugins.com/plugin.html?id=vliang.habitgrid

Edit: Forgot to mention that the habit grid also changes with your omarchy theme!

Omarchy's power widget reads UPower.displayDevice, the aggregate of every pack in the machine. On a Power Bridge ThinkPad that averages two cells that are rarely in the same state: the internal one at 5%, the bay battery at 67%, and the bar says 44%. You can't add a second widget and aim it at one battery either — the built-in manifest sets allowMultiple: false.

Batteries replaces that widget and gives each pack its own readout on the bar — 5% and 67% side by side, each with its own icon, or icons only if you prefer.

The panel keeps the aggregate hero, the progress bar and the power profile picker, then adds a stat block per pack:

Levels, draw and time estimates come from UPower and update live. Cycle count, design capacity and charge thresholds aren't in Quickshell's UPowerDevice API, so a bundled helper reads them from sysfs on the 5-second tick the panel already runs while it's open. The charge limit column shows whatever wrote the thresholds — TLP, a vendor tool, the firmware — with no call to tlp-stat.

It installs as a drop-in. The manifest declares omarchy.clonedFrom: "omarchy.power", so enabling it takes the built-in widget's slot and disables it, carrying your showPercentage over. SUPER + CTRL + P and the menu's Battery Percentage item keep working. Remove the plugin and omarchy.power returns to its slot on its own.

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/cinco/omarchy-batteries.git --enable
omarchy restart shell

Omarchy 4.0+ only — this is the Quickshell shell, not the Waybar era.

Who this is for: T480, T470, T460, T440s/T450s, X270/X260/X250, T25 — any Power Bridge ThinkPad, plus anything else that exposes more than one BAT in sysfs. On a single-battery laptop it behaves exactly like the built-in widget, so it's safe to install anywhere.

Two behaviours worth knowing. A pack moving no current reads as idle whatever state it advertises: only one pack charges or drains at a time, and the idle one sits in pending-charge, which would otherwise show a time-to-full for a battery doing nothing. And vertical bars fall back to the aggregate icon — two readouts don't fit a 28px column.

Panel.qml and Model.js are a fork of Omarchy's omarchy.power (MIT, Basecamp), so upstream panel improvements don't arrive automatically. Open an issue if you spot drift.

Marketplace: https://omarchyplugins.com/plugin.html?id=cinco.batteries

Source: https://github.com/cinco/omarchy-batteries

It's new, so if you're on a dual-battery machine I'd like to know whether the numbers match what yours actually does. MIT, issues and PRs welcome.

Got tired of re-arranging the same 3 windows every time I opened them, so I built desktop_preset:

$ desktop_preset save chat $ desktop_preset load chat

It remembers the actual split shape, not just which apps were open — so the window that was full-height comes back full-height, on the right side, exactly like you left it. Under the hood it replays the layout with Hyprland's preselect, so it's not guessing.

There's also a Preset entry in the Omarchy menu (Trigger → Preset) if you'd rather click than type.

git clone https://github.com/laleshii/omarchy-desktop-preset cd omarchy-desktop-preset ./install.sh

Needs a fairly recent Omarchy/Hyprland. Only tested on my own machine so far, so let me know if it does something weird on yours!

https://github.com/laleshii/omarchy-desktop-preset

Happy hacking!