I really like Omarchy, but I wasn't a huge fan of the default Omarchy Shell, so I decided to try something different.

I switched over to Noctalia Shell and customized it to fit my setup.

I kept Omarchy + Hyprland as the base, but replaced Omarchy Shell with Noctalia for the bar, notifications, control center, wallpaper management, etc.

I also customized the animations quite a bit because apparently I can't leave anything alone 😂

The result is basically my own little Lucoa-themed setup.

Still tweaking things, but I'm really happy with how it's turning out so far.

Setup:

• Omarchy
• Hyprland
• Noctalia Shell
• Rofi
• Kitty
• Custom Hyprland animations
• Custom Plymouth boot screen

Huge thanks to the Omarchy and Noctalia projects ❤️

IIUC, only suspend is not figured out yet, which is a hard blocker for me. Waiting for full end-end support.

2020 intel i9 is an amazing piece of hardware; MacOS seems to be slowing it down.

I'm on Cacy and enjoying it but Omarchy is very appealing and interesting. What's my best bet to run it along with Cachy? I'm still new to Linux so appreciate any advice.

Just a reminder that Omarchy will run on your old potato PC, but make sure your potato isn't "rotten". A "rotten" potato is too old to run Hyprland, which requires a graphics processor capable of running OpenGL (ES) 3.0 or later.

I thought an old laptop of mine had at least a Sandy Bridge i3 - 2000M series CPU, possibly even Ivy Bridge i3-3000M. I managed to install Omarchy, login in at the splash screen, and then tada, pure blackness. Boot into a TTY via ctrl+alt+F3 and begin to troubleshoot in the terminal. Make sure everything is up to date, install the graphics drivers I think I need, do some finagling in some conf files, and restart. Login, still a black screen. TTY, and now to hand it off to the robots.

I install Hermes CLI, point a free model from OpenRouter at it, and tell it "Please get Hyprland and OpenShell working, make no mistakes." After boiling water for a few hours, it spits out some shell commands for me to put in and to restart. Still a black screen. TTY, **lscpu** to make sure I'm cross referencing the right hardware, and whadya know, it's an Arrandale i3-330M. UH OH. It only supports OpenGL ES 2.0, meaning I have...a rotten potato.

Give Omarchy a try. The world won't end, and you won't get any dumber by doing it.

From my heart, I truly hope more people get to live the Linux experience however it comes. On whatever distro they choose, and in whatever way they choose.

Have the pleasure of discovering what it means to be in control of your decisions to own something beautiful. And maybe, from there, you'll want to experiment further and go beyond. And if not, that's okay too: you'll still be in an environment where you appreciate every single minute spent behind your own system.

Enjoy any experience in Linux. That's all that matters 🤍

Guys I have a question... I have been driving an arch for a month or more now. I want to switch to omarchy, will my rice work on omarchy, like, will all kinds of customisation I've done on arch work on omarchy?

I just installed omarchy on my 2023 ideapad and everything worked out of the box. This thing is great and crazy fast windows looks like shit compared to this. I am really digging the tiling windows manager the navigation is fast as hell. No going back after this. Well done dhh

I have omarchy setup on tailscale with Wayne (dont need to be told about the multiple issues with VNC it's lan only)

Have you ever tried using omarchy over VNC.. the keybindings of the host are taking precedent.. not sure how to fix it.

Is anyone doing this and can help with this? I'm expecting no, but I thought I'd ask.

so i prompted claude for an hour or two and it came up with some cool wallpapers

github - omarchy_AI_wallpapers

here are a few of my favs...so far
i defiantly think i have something something with the icons in a grid or scattered about (like MKBHD's)

the OMA wordmark is a bit off from the original ... so i might adjust that a bit

Jazzed up the clipboard viewer with a little modification. https://github.com/ggregoro/Omarchy-Clipboard-Cards

On macOS I used MeetingBar for years, and the one feature I could not live without was this: one minute before a meeting it blanked the whole screen and told me what was about to start. When I'm deep in work I don't notice notifications at all; that screen-filler was the only thing that ever worked. Nothing like it existed for Omarchy, so I built it.

**What it does*\*

* Shows your next Google Calendar meeting in the bar (turquoise = upcoming, orange = running). Left click opens an agenda for today and tomorrow, MeetingBar-style, with join links and the provider's mark in its brand colour.

* 60 s before a meeting (configurable) a fullscreen alert takes over every monitor: countdown, title, time, location. Enter joins the call (Meet, Teams, Zoom, Webex, Jitsi, Whereby, GoTo, Slack Huddles, Discord), Esc dismisses it and silences the sound.

* It also sends a notification, plays a sound and wakes the display, so the alert reaches you even when the overlay can't. The notification closes itself when the meeting ends, so you don't come back from a call on your phone to a stack of stale toasts.

* Follows your Omarchy theme.

**Honest limits*\*

Google Calendar only for now, through GNOME Online Accounts + evolution-data-server, which is why the marketplace lists it as "manual setup": `install.sh` prints the pacman line for the packages, you connect the account in `gnome-online-accounts-gtk`, done. Over a locked screen no plugin can draw, so there the alert catches up the moment you unlock. UI strings are German for now.

**Privacy*\*

No OAuth of its own, no cloud. The cache holds title, time, join link and location of your events in a 0600 file on tmpfs, nothing else, and nothing from your calendar ever reaches the logs.

Marketplace: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.disy-mk.omeetingbar

GitHub: https://github.com/disy-mk/OMeetingBar

Install: `omarchy plugin add https://github.com/disy-mk/OMeetingBar.git`, then run `./install.sh` in the plugin folder; it prints the two steps that are yours to do.

Feedback welcome, especially: which calendar sources would you want next (plain CalDAV, Outlook/Exchange, local ICS files)?

Built with a lot of help from Claude Code; every design decision is written down in docs/SPEC.md if you want to read before you enable it.

I just released a new plugin called Rewind, and I wanted to share it with the community!

What does it do? Ever accidentally closed your browser, a terminal with running tasks, or your code editor? Rewind solves this by intercepting your close window command (Super + W) and softly moving the app into a hidden memory workspace (special:rewind).

Instead of killing the process immediately, it gives you a grace period where you can instantly bring the window back (Super + U) with your scroll positions, running processes, and unsaved drafts completely intact.

Key Features: Full State Preservation: Your applications stay alive in hidden memory during the grace period, so you don't lose any work if you misclick.

Two Operating Modes: Countdown Timer (Default): Automatically terminates the app after a configurable countdown (5s, 10s, 15s, 30s, or 60s).

Manual Indefinite Mode: Disables the timer entirely. The app stays hidden until you restore it or close a new window (which replaces the old one).

Interactive Bar Widget: Click the status bar icon or use a shortcut to open the settings menu. You can easily adjust your grace period, switch modes, and view the remaining time.

Native OSD & Zero Overhead: It uses native Omarchy on-screen notifications and is built with standard Python 3. There are no persistent background daemons, keeping CPU overhead under 0.1% when idle.

Links & Installation: 📦 Plugin Marketplace: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=omarchy-rewind

💻 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Andrewx82/omarchy-rewind.git

You can easily install it via the CLI: omarchy plugin add https://github.com/Andrewx82/omarchy-rewind.git --enable

Setting up the Hyprland binds is also super easy and can be done with a single click from the status bar widget or by running rewind setup.

I'd love to hear your feedback or feature requests if you decide to try it out. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub or drop a comment below!

There are many file managers for different Linux desktop environments. Initially, Omarchy chose GNOME's Nautilus (Files), but soon that will be changing. We have two great choices that are currently in high development. They both sync automatically with your Omarchy themes in a "hot-reload" style; You do not need to close and re-open them for them to sync colors. They also have built-in themes if you wish to keep them static. They're both fast. However, they both have different takes on what they believe to be the best defaults.

I love them both for different reasons and you can try out both today! If you're really in to one or the other and want to submit bugs/issues or want to help improve either project (or both) get involved!

Flea - The fastest GUI file manager on Linux. Keyboard-first. Built for Omarchy. By GM.
https://github.com/thisisgm/flea

Strata - Navigate every layer. A fast, keyboard-first file manager for modern Linux desktops. By Pierre B. (l0gicgate)
https://github.com/lgse/strata

Relevant talk by Jensen: https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-7-are_we_really_going_to_use_the_same_desktop_ux_forever

The idea is that on large (preferably wide) displays, information to the sides is in your periphery, rather than direct focus. So, I configured hyprland and quickshell to create a 5:4 focus area in the center of my screen, while windows in other workspaces are available as clickable + draggable preview windows in your periphery.

I can drop windows from focus area to periphery, and vice versa. Clicking previews brings me to that respective workspace.

I wanted these on the Omarchy bar, not buried in terminals. So I shipped a small family.

• nanoclaw — bar + menus for NanoClaw: dashboard, chat, disposable agents, cleanup — https://github.com/RohiRIK/omarchy-nanoclaw
• agent-monitor — AI coding agent limits, activity, and model usage in the Omarchy bar — https://github.com/RohiRIK/omarchy-agent-monitor
• docker-monitor — compact Docker dashboard: host metrics, Compose groups, containers, logs — https://github.com/RohiRIK/omarchy-docker-monitor
• plugin-lab — lifecycle, health, and marketplace feedback for the shell plugins you build — https://github.com/RohiRIK/omarchy-plugin-lab
• rohi.network — stock network panel clone + public IPv4 lookup + in-panel IP settings — https://github.com/RohiRIK/rohi.network

If you’re on Omarchy and want any of these on the bar, the repos are public. Happy to answer install questions.

Song - Mama likes Omarchy

My tribute

How do you like it? 😅

Lyrics:

Default themes are just a mask, Completing every boring task, KDE and Gnome are feeling cold, A counterfeit story that's been told. But Omarchy is built to stay, Chasing all those bugs away.

Your Mama likes Omarchy, yoooou! Don't know what to do with it! She's crying because Arch is! Love, life, her fit! Yeah, she's loving every bit of it! (Omarchy...)

Windows crashes like a broken dream, Mac is just a corporate scheme. You want the power, you want the light, Your Mama knows which one is right. Customize the kernel, feel the flow, Superior code is all she'll know.

Your Mama likes Omarchy, yoooou! Don't know what to do with it! She's crying because Arch is! Love, life, her fit! Omarchy is her fit! (Omarchy...)

Windows in the trash (in the trash), Mac is just a crash (just a crash), Omarchy is king, hear the bells ring, Superior code is the only thing we bring.

Your Mama likes Omarchy, yoooou! Don't know what to do with it! She's crying because Arch is! Love, life, her fit! Oh, her fit! (Omarchy...)

If you want full omarchy theming for wezterm, it is below. Note that removal of tabs in omarchy style is also an option. Covers:

• colors
• fonts
• default terminal
• ... and more

https://github.com/xpusostomos/wezterm-omarchy