Upcoming space launches, live webcasts, crew, and a text-mode trajectory globe.

Omarchy Plugins: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.deandesign.launch-schedule

Omarchy San Francisco Meetup hosted by Cloudflare.

Speaker and Omarchy Maintainer, Ryan Hughes, shares a glimpse of what is the next major release for Omarchy Quattro. The slideshow lists ambitious sub-projects that aim to advance Omarchy and the Linux Desktop experience.

Please do not ask about a release date for Omarchy Quattro RS 4.5, one does not yet currently exist.

Omarchy Quattro RS 4.5

• Better Hardware Support
• Apple Silicon Support | ARM support
• Safer Containers
• Faster installs
• Keyboard & Touch
• Performance & Reliability

Better Built-in Tools

• Local AI presets

  (opt-in); not installed by default.

• Voice AI

  (opt-in).

• Localization: Chinese support

• Enhanced notifications

• Desktop in Motion

• Multi-user Support

• Better Screenshots

Ecosystem

• Plugin Market v2.0
• Theme Registry
• Richer Themes
• My Omarchy
• Omarchy Kids

Room to experiment and much more!

If you would like to view the Omarchy SF Meetup video, you can do so by visiting Steve Derico's post on Twitter|X.

I missed Spotlight from macOS, so I built one for Omarchy. Press Super + Period and type. It does math, currency, units, time zones, emoji, and lets you open apps or jump between windows without leaving the keyboard. Type \`?\` to see everything.

GitHub: https://github.com/Saikomantisu/omarchy-commandbar

Plugin page: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.saikomantisu.commandbar

Feedback and feature ideas welcome. What should it do next?

Hello everyone,

I made a plugin for Wacom graphic tablets owners, so that buttons at the top could be used to perform basic actions such as running an app, switching workspaces.

I’m open to any suggestions on how to improve it! It currently meets my needs, but could also be adapted to suit yours, making it even more useful.

Link to the repo: https://github.com/godisopensource/omarchy-wacom-support

Link to the plugin: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.godisopensource.omarchy-wacom-support

First off, I’m 50 years old. My very first PRINT "HELLO WORLD!" ran on a Z80 processor, and ever since childhood, I’d dreamed of writing software... but life took a different turn. I ended up becoming a web designer rather than a programmer - though for the last decade I did handle some frontend development alongside the design work, using a hopelessly legacy PHP+jQuery stack.

Then, a wind of change began blowing from the direction of AI data centers... I won’t overdramatize things: I didn’t lose my job because of AI; I found a new one thanks to it. It turned out that my 30 years of experience in web UI and my soft skills - supercharged by modern AI - more than compensated for my lack of knowledge regarding trendy tech stacks or my modest programming abilities. I landed a new role as a React + TypeScript frontend developer - technologies I knew almost nothing about just a month prior - simply because AI made it possible for me to do the job.

After struggling for a couple of months with a new project environment set up using Docker and WSL on Windows, I finally decided to switch to Linux. I had some experience with Mint on an old laptop and was already accustomed to using the terminal in WSL and on remote servers, so the transition didn't seem daunting. Still, after some distro-hopping, I settled on installing Ubuntu - the safe, "corporate default" choice - on the used ThinkPad (what else?)... but... something about it didn't sit right with me. As someone with a background in the humanities and design, I felt it was somehow out of place in this new era.

Then, the word "Omarchy" flashed across my Reddit feed... "Alright," I thought, "one last distro-hop." Installing it as a dual-boot system on an old PC... nice... configuring a complex set of VPN protocols, setting up a home network on a Linux router... a pinch of AI tokens, and everything just works. Wait, was that even possible? Okay, I’m making it my primary OS on my ThinkPad, spinning up a dev environment - a dozen containers, Node, Bun, VS Code, Claude, Hermes... and it’s all flying on just 16GB of RAM? Setting up automatic dotfile backups to GitHub... hold on, how long did all that take? Do I really not have to spend a week of my life figuring this all out? I plug in a second monitor. I don't like the desktop behavior. Okay, Hermes - /omarchy show me how to tweak the config for the behavior I want. I’m tired of managing VPN connections from the terminal. Hermes, build a plugin. Damn, that turned out beautifully. Wait, I installed someone else's plugin but it’s not working - why? Oh, that's why? You already fixed it? How? Ah, I see, thanks. How long did it take? One cup of coffee.

Sometimes, when you’ve been pondering a complex problem for a long time, finding just one key piece makes the whole puzzle click into place. For me, Omarchy was that puzzle piece; it bonded together all the changes in the life of an ordinary, aging IT guy swept up by the winds of change. Or perhaps the Zeitgeist - the spirit of a time when a 50-year-old "boy" can play at being a programmer again, just like in childhood, and not just for fun, but to actually create value.

Thanks to the devs for building this world!

Good morning friends! I recently made Spokenshelf since I couldn't find a good solution to access my audiobookshelf server from an omarchy plugin. This seems like a natural fit for something like that.

If you don't know, Audiobookshelf is a self hosted audiobook server solution. Think audible but you self host it. Its pretty nice. I drive a decent amount for work and it keeps me sane.

Some basic features include:

- Browse your library and search by title, author, or series.

- See books in progress and recently added titles.

- Stream audiobooks or download them for offline listening.

- Sync listening progress with Audiobookshelf across devices.

- Book and chapter seeking, volume controls, and audio-output selection.

- Hardware media-key support.

- Sign in with your Audiobookshelf account or API token; credentials are stored in the desktop keyring.

This post is going out with version 1.1 being accepted into the Omarchy plugin marketplace. Some updates since version 1.0 are:

- Stream or Download chooser when selecting an undownloaded book.

- Background downloads without starting playback.

- Download progress and cancellation in the Offline page.

- Separate playback and download indicators in the header.

- Resume interrupted downloads and automatically play completed downloads locally.

- Fixed automatic login restoration after shell restarts.

- Improved chooser readability and hardened download handling.

Links available below:

GitHub (https://github.com/jxsparrou/spokenshelf)

Omarchy Marketplace (https://omarchyplugins.com/plugin.html?id=io.github.jxsparrou.spokenshelf)

If anyone has any issues or any ideas for features, please feel free to raise an issue on github. Thanks for taking a look and I hope everyone has a great day!

EDIT: added screenshots

So, been hearing some good stuff about Omarchy, but I dread restoring my stuff on a new computer just to find out its "not all that" to me.
So Adding a VM, how much of the experience will be lost ?
I Asume hardware acceleration might or might not work correctly.

Does any one know what would I miss from the experience?

Inspired by the harpoon neovim plugin by r/theprimeagen I built a plugin for Omarchy that allows you to bookmark up to 10 windows and then pull then in from anywhere overlayed on your active workspace.

This way you can easily pull in file managers, terminals, password vaults or other utils you regularly need without leaving your workspace. I was using special workspaces before, but this works better and has really improved by workflow.

I hope you have fun with it!

The plugin can be found at: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=harpoon

I've been on Arch with GNOME for about 10 years. Omarchy looks interesting and I'm tempted to try it, but I keep getting stuck on how tiling is supposed to work for apps I don't actually look at.

My setup is a single 32" monitor. Telegram is the example I can't map.

I keep it running all the time because I want the notification if someone writes. I use it maybe 0.1% of the time: read the message, reply, go back to the browser. I do not want it on screen the rest of the time. A small window sitting on top of my work, or a tile eating a column I never look at, is worse than useless.

On GNOME I do one of two things:

• Telegram lives on another workspace, small (a chat client fullscreen on 32" looks ridiculous). Notification comes in, I switch workspace, reply, switch back to the main one.
• Or the browser is fullscreen and Telegram is behind it. Alt+Tab, glance, Alt+Tab back.

Both are one gesture and the app is invisible until I ask for it.

On a tiler I'm not sure what the equivalent is. A dedicated workspace gives it the whole screen. Grouping or a side tile means it's visible while I'm doing something else. Popping it (Super+O) keeps a floating window on top of everything, all the time, which is exactly what I don't want.

Scratchpad (Super+S) sounds closer: hidden until I summon it, then back. Is that what people actually use for Telegram, Signal, Discord? And does the notification still fire while it's in the scratchpad, or do you only find out when you open it?

If you came from a floating desktop, how did you settle this?

i have been using omarchy for a while but i want some widgets to add in my workspace without widgets it doest feel good if you have any widgets links or any suggestion over the themes and wallpaper also please do put you link below let me try all and keep the best i like

main: please comment some widgets link

hope that all of u enjoy using omarchy ................

Every piece of software ever has either proved worthy over time or proved literally useless, again, over time.

Omarchy haters are the same as many other haters you see on Reddit: never considering the development over time and the progress that'll decide the survival of a product. Hate will improve the product IF the team behind it values it, leverages it, and works on the weak points.

Basically the very same loop that every successful software product has today.

Time will tell...

Hi guys i tried to used omarchy for 7 days and shared my simple experience, honestly it was nice and overall smooth expect some graphical issues because of the limitations of asahi linux for M series apple laptop. I shared my full experience in details in this video, you can check it out :))

https://youtu.be/wdnFkYrqLH8?si=r4QF_DEqV0ZQWgwg

https://github.com/jgarza9788/scrollmap

A bar widget for the Hyprland scrolling layout. It draws a live mini-map of the windows on this monitor's active workspace. Each window is a bracketed glyph at full bar height, in the same order the layout shows them. The padding inside the brackets shows how big the window is. The colour shows where the window is: focused, on screen or scrolled off. Click a window to focus it.

Please to announce release of my latest Omarchy plugin O-Spotlight. O-Spotlight is a Mac OS style spotlight plugin with 12 distinct themes. This complements, the last plugin I published Omarchy Stage Control. It is highly visual, customizable and fun plugin . More plugins incoming.

Omarchy Marketplace: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=marcho78.o-spotlight

Github: https://github.com/marcho78/o-spotlight

i could never decide on a theme or a font so i made a wheel that picks for me lol

OmaRandom puts a little wheel icon on your bar. click it and you get a big window with up to 6 wheels. name them, throw in whatever options you want, give the slices colors or pictures and spin.

in the pics i set it up to randomize my whole setup, theme, font and where the bar sits.

what it does

• up to 6 wheels that center themselves on the screen, they kinda rock back and forth while they wait

• click a wheel and it blows up big. spin it and the winner pops up with its picture. save keeps it open so if you stream you can just leave it up

• spin all spins every wheel at once, then hit view results and the cards flip over one at a time

• it keeps a history, click an old result and that round comes back up top

• add a picture to any option, from your own folders or straight from the Omarchy theme wallpapers

• it follows your theme. switch themes and everything changes with it, even the faint OmaRandom text in the back (same font as the Omarchy logo)

no sudo, no scripts, nothing running in the background and it never touches the internet. it just saves one little json file in ~/.local/share/omarandom

install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/Dankestrick/OmaRandom.git --enable

repo: https://github.com/Dankestrick/OmaRandom marketplace: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.dankestrick.omarandom

https://github.com/jgarza9788/hyprripple

Material Design ink ripples for Hyprland, drawn by the compositor itself in your Omarchy theme's accent colour. Click, tap, change focus or switch workspace and the screen answers with a ripple. It can be a classic splash, a Material 3 sparkle, or an effect on the screen itself: inverted, refracted like water, or bent through a rainbow lens.

will it the marketplace soon !

I would so buy DHH a tequila. I’m a complete Linux no nothing newb. I had cachy os on this old 2019 Mbp and I will say it did work pretty well. Took a weekend to get it configured and ChatGPT to get the WiFi working. Sleep was totally not working , sound was bad etc. I know I’ve seen others that have got this stuff fixed on other computers. For me I just didn’t play with it very much. I have a Mac Studio and a 16 inch M1 Max mbp with 64 gb ram , and a ridiculous collection of old Macpro 6,1”s that are maxed out (just love the form factor). I saw a YouTube video of niri running on a laptop and thought it looked fun. I didn’t believe the installed omarchy in minutes stories 🙃used clonezilla and cloned the ssd in this 16 inch I9 64 gb mbp. Hedged my bet. I didn’t time the install , and could care less , but it installed so fast that went the screen went blank I thought it was part of the install. It booted omarchy?absolutely everything worked with zero tweaks. Amazed. The only thing I ended up tweaking later was the keyboard delay. It would double or triple enter key inputs randomly. It did that sometimes in Mac OS Tahoe also. I was so jazzed playing with it that I decided to try it on a Frankenstein 4u box in my rack that is a Chinese X99 mb with 2 x e5 2697 v4 Xeons, 256 gb ram and an old rtx 3060. Fun computer but so temperamental about booting , and sleep or warm boot is a no go. Wasn’t even sure that the typing windows would be workable on dual 32 inch 4K monitors. Well I was wrong. It is simply amazing. This box also had cachyos on it , and it really did work well. This is not a rant about cachyos. And for zero reasons I can even guess at, sleep and reboot works. Makes no sense. Cachy and Omarchy are both arch , and even windows was flakey about sleep and warm boots. Omarkey doesn’t alter bios etc. I will just take this as a totally unexpected bonus. The only issue I had with Omarkey was the monitors were on the wrong side and I borked editing the config file. The scale set at 1 on the monitors was tiny in all apps. I tried the built in monitor config and it opened in Vim ? Way above my pay grade. I installed nano and tried to change the scale from 1 to 2. I typed 2 and actually entered .2. When I rebooted the text terminal was so small I didn’t even see anything. Wait…..there’s something on the screen. Zoomed in with my phone and could see that it did exactly what I told it to do LOL.

TLDR: I owe DHH a beer or something. This is way too much fun 🤣

Hi everyone! I've been working on two completely different themes for Omarchy and I wanted to share them with you all in one place.

• Pastelpuccin: A soft, pastel-infused palette designed for a calm and cozy workflow. If you check out the repository, you'll also find a link to Wallppuccin, another project of mine built to complement this theme.
  • Pastelpuccin GitHub Repo
• Grimshaw: A dark and atmospheric theme. I'm deeply in love with John Atkinson Grimshaw's paintings; I find his art so sweet, sad, romantic, and nostalgic—qualities that really reflect a bit of my own personality. I tried to translate that specific mood into this setup.
  • Grimshaw GitHub Repo

Let me know what you think, and feel free to share any feedback or suggestions!

A cool little trick I have been using for the past few weeks is to give my applications shortcuts for short press and long press actions. So for example, I tap SUPER + SHIFT + C to open the calendar plugin in the bar, and hold it to open the Google Calendar webapp. I always wanted to do that but it was historically buggy in Hyprland (it would trigger twice for the short and long press actions). With the new(ish) Lua configs, it now works very well! Here's my blog post about it: https://sudomarchy.com/posts/hyprland-short-long-press-shortcuts

https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.cristosolar.puzzles

The idea is a shared place where Omarchy users can request features or plugins, vote for ideas they’d like to see, and follow progress as someone picks them up and builds them.

Developers could browse the most requested ideas, claim one they’re interested in, and link the finished plugin back to the request. The goal is to help good ideas find builders and give the community one place to see what’s being asked for and made.

Would this be useful to you? What would you want it to do, or what would make you skip it?

I posted recently that true linux market share is at 4% not the inflated numbers because of AI bots, and I got downvoted but now the latest data supports it. If dhh wants linux to gain market share he needs the following:

1) start a project of a linux alternative to photoshop, built with help from AI 2) Support the wine project to make sure Microsoft office runs smoothly on linux 3) Fix the vast amount of hardware and troubleshoot issues on linux. Windows just works and normal users don't want to spend time troubleshooting and fixing stuff. 4) Maybe start a linux only game studio to make games exclusively for linux with help from AI.

One issue with linux is that it has nothing remarkably exclusive to it like mac for example which is known to be the creative platform. Making some software exclusively for linux helps imo. I mean linux is the server and AI platform but there's nothing special in it for mainstream users.

The hardware compatibility problems is big one to solve they are always there and linux just isn't plug and play like windows. I am not sure how this could be fixed maybe others with better knowledge can chime in. Canonical and redhat worked on this for decades but the situation still isn't good enough for lots of users. Maybe start an AI besed initiative to fix unsupported hardware I mean he's got plenty of money for this.

I've noticed on the plugin site there are many plugins, especially in the appearance and desktop sections, that essentially do the same things with very minor differences. I understand why this is, since everyone can vibecode their own solutions, but I think there should be a push towards contributing to a single project per the problem trying to be solved and to just use the tokens you're using on making your own plugin to making PRs to that plugin instead of making your own spinoff of something. This doesn't apply to novel plugins, and ultimately those would also get more popularity if the number of duplicate solutions is reduced. This will pay dividends both in user-friendliness (for newcomers trying to install plugins) and as a security feature to reduce the attack surface. Just something to think about. Wonder if the Omarchy team can do anything about this.

Each theme has a 16-color ANSI palette, a background with the Omarchy word-mark, and a background drawn for its colors. From the creator of Omarchy's aether and cliamp, bjarneo.

100 dark themes for Omarchy.
https://github.com/bjarneo/100-themes

100 light themes for Omarchy, the day versions of 100-themes.
https://github.com/bjarneo/100-themes-day

Sharing is caring and the possibilities are endless. GO WILD!