I started using Omarchy and wanted to understand the workstation—not just learn enough shortcuts to get around. That turned into a course I’m sharing for free.

It covers installation, the desktop, terminal and tmux, development tools, Hyprland customization, updates and recovery, security, and troubleshooting.

There are 25 modules and a capstone, plus downloadable handbook PDFs, a keybindings cheat sheet, a shortcut trainer, and a script for checking your actual machine.

The approach is “verify, don’t memorize”: learn how to check what your system is doing rather than rely on instructions that can go stale.

I’m the author. There’s no account requirement, email gate, or paywall.

Course: https://stevinator.com/courses/omarchy

I’d appreciate feedback—especially anything unclear for a new user, or instructions that don’t match your setup.

A few days ago I shared my first theme, Retro Stripes. Thanks for all the likes! I've added two new 4K wallpapers, so there are five now:

– Wave: the stripes rise and fall in one wave (new)

– Diagonal: a band across the screen (new)

– Fan, Flare and Logo from the first version

The palette is still the same six seventies stripes on near-black. If you already have the theme, reinstall it to get the new wallpapers. Cycle through them with Super+Ctrl+Space.

Repo: https://github.com/MatthiasStaber/omarchy-retro-stripes-theme

A light version is in the works.

should be in
https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.sirjul1337.lock-explorer

after the next pull-request or two.

I've been using now Omarchy for a bit less than two months and it's been a lot of fun! Bit by bit I've been customizing it with Claude's help with a couple of things that I find useful, or I just like.

Not sure if all of them are plugins...

• senysisu.plymouth One for the boot screen: it basically installs a plymouth screen with the clock, and it gets the colors and background from the installed themes. On install you can either use the theme that is running, set it manually or configure it via lua file. There's a couple more things that can be configured (not sure if technically is a plugin or not...)
• senysiu.lock One for the lock screen: a bit more information, there's the location and weather, and a bit of flashy weather effects (darker for night, rain, snow, etc). Again, it can use the current theme, or any other theme with any other wallpaper. And quite a bit of it is customizable via lua file (and it reloads when saving it).
• senysisu.lte a bar widget with LTE connection information, and an on-off switch
• senysisu.airplane-mode just an airplane mode button, it shuts down wifi, bluetooth and lte
• senysisu.cpu a super simple CPU monitor bar widget
• senysisu.ram a super simple RAM monitor bar widget
• senysisu.disk a super simple "how full are the disks" bar widget

It is just some Claude fun tinkering and I know there are already similar plugins in the marketplaace/store/bazar but it's too much fun not to try by myself...

I shared the plymouth and lock earlier but this is my current collection. I'm eagerly waiting for a Thinkpad T14 that will get also Omarchy and this customization to start from. And I'm sure I'll be tinkering more.

If any of it is of any use for anyone:
https://github.com/rogercarullabove/omarchy-senysisu-plugins

Guys what video editor you are using? I saw bunch of videos on YouTube and asked AI, tried this new "Film Craft" and neither of them worked fine on my Omarchy, Only Kdenlive ! so I'm wondering is there anyway we make Kdenlive better (in terms of look and GPU acceleration)?! have you ever done it?

Reverse engineered how windows glorious core app talks to the GMMK 3 HE, used Claude to make a native Linux configurar in rust, it’s an omarchy plugin and can follow your theme accent color with effects. Control rapid trigger, actuation per key, and polling rate. Keymap and advanced haven’t been fully tested.

Only test on GMMK 3HE 75% keyboard

https://github.com/tg5ee/inglorious-core-linux

project GitHub

It may not be a big number, but I'm proud of myself and appreciate everybody that supported ( and still support) me in this journey, means a lot to me guys. please let me know if there a feature you would like to have.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/Yakumy/Station

I wanted one thing every morning: a single answer to what am I doing today? I didn't want a project-management suite. So I built Always Today, a native TUI made on Omarchy and used on Omarchy every day.

What it does

• Starts instantly. It's one native binary. No Electron, no runtime, no daemon you need to babysit.
• Uses your theme. It draws with your terminal's palette, so it changes with you every time you switch Omarchy themes. Pass --truecolor to use the active Omarchy theme's exact colours.
• Vim-style keys. j/k to move, o to add, x to complete, / to search, : for commands, ? for the full keymap.
• Natural-language capture. always-today add "call bank tomorrow 3pm #admin" parses dates, times, #tags and repeats.
• One program, three faces:
  • the full-screen app
  • always-today today --waybar for a Today count in your bar, with the list in the tooltip
  • always-today quick for a one-line capture prompt you can bind to a floating window
• Lists that work like Things: Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Anytime, Someday, Logbook. There's also review for to-dos that have waited over a month, and let-go for ones you've decided you won't do.
• Import from Things, Todoist or TickTick. Read-only .ics calendar in Today. Reminders as notifications through a systemd user service.

Install (x86_64; there's an aarch64 build too):

curl -LO https://github.com/xternal/guzh.uk/releases/download/always-today-linux-1.0.1/always-today-1.0.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && tar -xzf always-today-1.0.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && install -Dm755 always-today-1.0.1-linux-x86_64/always-today ~/.local/bin/always-today

Waybar module (~/.config/waybar/config.jsonc, then add "custom/today" to a modules list):

"custom/today": {
  "exec": "always-today today --waybar",
  "return-type": "json",
  "interval": 60,
  "format": "󰄲 {}",
  "on-click": "alacritty -e always-today"
}

Quick capture on a key (~/.config/hypr/bindings.conf):

bind = SUPER SHIFT, T, exec, alacritty --class always-today-quick -e always-today quick
windowrule = float, class:always-today-quick
windowrule = size 700 80, class:always-today-quick

Being upfront: it's free on one device. Sync between devices is a paid plan, bought through Stripe checkout in your browser (:plan in the app shows the price). It works fully offline without ever signing in.

Download and checksums: https://github.com/xternal/guzh.uk/releases/tag/always-today-linux-1.0.1
More: https://alwaystoday.uk/

Feedback welcome, especially on keybindings and what you'd want in the bar.

Isn't October the season of horror and Halloween?

I’ve just released Paranormal, a dark, horror-inspired theme for Omarchy.

If you love atmospheric setups, this one is crafted for dark rooms and late-night coding sessions, vibes of abandoned asylums, heavy fog, and cold, sickly light.

What's included?

🖤 Custom Palette: Deep cold black, bone-colored text, pale ectoplasm accents, and aged warm tones.

🖼️ 7 Hand-Finished 4K Wallpapers: Upscaled to 3840×2160 with empty edges and gaps manually drawn and reconstructed by hand, then carefully recolored to match the theme’s ghostly palette (featuring artwork from r/ImaginaryMonsters and Wallhaven)

⚡Full System Integration: Hyprland, terminals, btop, Neovim, VS Code, and lock screen, all generated seamlessly via Omarchy.

Release:

https://codeberg.org/imanubdesigner/omarchy-paranormal-theme

how do i use the remote input feature in kdeconnect with which you can move your cursor from your phone?
does it work for any one else?

I saw Oliver's post today and I thought I have to give it a shot. He implemented the Juxtopposed re-design for VLC in this repo. So I gave the repo link to sol 6.1 high effort and asked it to install the VLC on my Omarchy OS. after 20 minutes and 3 M token, it was done! unbelievable!

a couple of days a go, I made a post on X and mentioned "VideoLan" and asked them to implement the Juxtopposded design in to the VLC, they never responded, any way we did it, thanks to Juxtopposde and Oliver and AI, here we are :)

Oliver post: https://www.reddit.com/r/juxtopposed/s/xJL1kqA09C
Oliver VLC forked repo: https://github.com/oliver-bacon/vlc
Juxtopposded video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERFeOgqk324
My post: https://x.com/AryanHv/status/2109945073265979394?s=20

I wanted my phone to match my Omarchy desktop, so I made Phone Sync, a small Omarchy shell plugin that keeps the phone's theme in step with the desktop, both ways.

What it does:

• Pick a theme in Omarchy and the phone follows, in the exact colours
• Pick a theme on the phone and Omarchy follows. If Omarchy has a theme with the same name it uses that one, otherwise it writes a full Omarchy theme from the phone's colours, background included
• If the two were apart, the newer pick wins once they meet again
• Nothing to install, no ports to open. The computer reaches out to the phone over your wifi and finds it through avahi, which Omarchy already runs

Install:

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/Zanoshky/omarchy-phonesync.git --enable

Then put Phone Sync on the bar from Setup > Plugins if it is not there yet.

Pairing: turn on link in the phone's link menu, click the phone icon in the bar, pick your phone, and check that the six digit code matches on both screens. A middle click on the bar icon sends the current theme to the phone right away.

On the phone side it works with my two Android launchers, Hyprtile (Hyprland style tiling, in the shots) and Phosphor (a CRT terminal grid, last shot). Guides: https://hyprtile.zanoski.com/phone-sync and https://phosphor.zanoski.com/phone-sync

Source: https://github.com/Zanoshky/omarchy-phonesync

Feedback very welcome, especially from anyone running a theme I have not tried yet.

Omacraft is a beautiful Minecraft launcher modeled on Prism, built for Linux and drawn in Omarchy's design language. It follows your Omarchy theme live, and you can run it entirely from the keyboard.

Besides the basics (instances, Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge, Modrinth search and modpacks, Prism/MultiMC import), it handles the things Prism leaves to you:

- Find the breaking mod: turns half the mods off at a time, keeping each mod's dependencies on, and names the culprit after a few runs. Then it restores your exact setup.

- Crash analysis: reads crash reports and logs and explains them in plain words.

- Config editor: mod configs, shader options and options.txt as switches and sliders, saving only what you change.

- Worlds stay safe: worlds are backed up on exit and before a launch that could harm them, and mod updates can be rolled back.

- Share sets: instances share resource packs, shader packs and schematics, so a pack added to one shows up in all of them.

- World sets: instances on the same version and loader share their worlds. Each world remembers what last played it and is backed up before a launch that could harm it.

- Mod sets: named on/off sets of mods ("performance", "full pack"), switched in one step.

- Disk dedup: every download is stored once, and reflinks on btrfs keep each instance's copy free.

Install (x86_64 Linux, Rust 1.95+): `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/star-ges/omacraft/master/install.sh | bash`

Release: https://github.com/star-ges/omacraft/releases/tag/v0.1.0. Feedback welcome!

I couldn't find a mail client that felt like it belonged on Omarchy, so I built one. It's called Sealwax. It's free, open source (MIT), and I use it to read my mail every day.

What it is

A native email client written in Rust on GTK 4 and libadwaita. It inherits its colors and font from whatever Omarchy theme you're running, light or dark, and adapts accordingly. It follows Hyprland's corners, has no title bar on Hyprland, and has layouts for wide, half-screen, and narrow tiled windows.

What it does

• Setup without server settings: type your address, and it finds the servers. Sign in with Microsoft for Outlook.com and Microsoft 365; use app passwords for iCloud, Fastmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and others; use Proton Mail Bridge for Proton Mail.
• Keyboard first: one-key shortcuts in the list and reader, a command palette on F1, and your own keys in keys.toml.
• Careful with your mail: no script in a message ever runs, and nothing from the internet (tracking pixels included) loads until you allow it, per message or per sender. Warnings for risky attachments and misleading links.
• IMAP with push and an offline copy of your mail, or POP3. Several accounts side by side in All Inboxes.
• Whole conversations, a composer docked in the main window, Undo send, drafts saved as you type.
• Folders and rules (Sieve), search with from:, has:attachment, is:unread and friends, and notifications that open the message.
• No telemetry, no update checks. Passwords stay in your keyring, and settings are plain text files.

Install

It's one pacman -U line, on the page below.

👉 https://pixdevs.com/omarchy/sealwax/

It's still young (0.4.8; 1.0 comes after more time with real accounts), so bug reports and ideas are very welcome. I handle issues and feature requests promptly: open one on GitHub, and I'll get to it fast. I'd especially like to hear how it goes with providers I haven't tested much. Happy to answer questions in the comments!

Hey everyone!

Last week, I caught the Omarchy hype and really liked its look and feel, as well as its AI integration. However, I hate the window tiling. I'm more used to KDE Plasma and having a dock.

While trying out Omarchy, I stumbled upon CachyOS, which better fits my needs, but it lacks Omarchy's nice look and feel and AI integration.

So, I put together a best-of-both-worlds solution that brings the best of Omarchy to CachyOS with KDE Plasma and I'm just in love with my new setup! :D

Called it "Plasmarchy" to reference the combination of "KDE Plasma" and "Omarchy" :D

Shoal 2.0 is out

Shoal is a terminal LAN discovery tool that shows its work: every device detail says which probe found it, what was sent and what came back. Release 2 is now out as v2.0.1.

New since 1.0

• Windows support, through Npcap
• Wireshark export: record every packet Shoal sends and hears as a pcapng file (w or --pcap FILE)
• Switch interfaces with i, and Shoal asks before sweeping anything larger than a /22
• Remove devices that have stopped answering (d and D)
• Six new dark themes
• Easier installs: Homebrew, .deb, .rpm and Arch packages, and an install script
• Network access is set up once with shoal --setup, so no more sudo on every run, and shoal --upgrade updates Shoal however you installed it
• Fixes, including devices that leave the network now turning red after a rescan

Get it

• Homebrew, on macOS 13 or later and Linux: brew install bt10011/tap/shoal
• Linux packages, the Windows zip and the install script: https://github.com/BT10011/shoal/releases/latest
• Already on 1.0? Run sudo shoal --update

Every release is built by GitHub Actions, with checksums and build provenance you can verify. Please only scan networks you own or are allowed to test.

https://github.com/BT10011/shoal

Every 20 minutes a pixel-art buddy (Rigo the Rigatoni, Mochi the Cat or Porcini the Mushroom) pops up in a Stardew-style dialogue box and walks you through a one-minute neck and back stretch.

• Never steals keyboard focus, snoozes itself if you ignore it
• Bar countdown and a settings panel (interval, buddy, language)
• 7 stretches, 8 languages, no dependencies

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/talhacaglar/stretch-buddies.git --enable

Repo: https://github.com/talhacaglar/stretch-buddies.

New buddies and translations welcome!

Four colours is all you need! IBM's CGA palette 1 at high intensity, applied to everything Omarchy lets me theme: terminals, Neovim, btop, the bar, the lock screen and even the boot screen.

The colour palette of my childhood, now ready to burn your retina!

https://github.com/tsak/omarchy-cga-theme

Hi, I have a Mac Air M1 base model and I usually get pretty good battery life out of it.

I know Omarchy drains battery even in idle, but if I can at least get 70% of expected battery effectiveness on Omarchy I'd be happy, ie at least 7-8 hours of normal use. What's been your experience so far and would you recommend Omarchy on M1 having in mind the battery life?

Hey all,

I made a VLC rebuild with a Rust front end that follows Omarchy themes live.
The UI is based on the fantastic designs of Juxtapposed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERFeOgqk324&t=12s&pp=ygUPVkxDIGp1eHRhcHBvc2Vk

I made builds that should work on all distros, with Omarchy as the first class citizen, and will work on Mac and Window's ports soon.

I know there are a couple of Electron builds of this floating around, but my goal was native performance and a true VLC backend (so no FFMPEG here).

Please let me know your thoughts!
All core functionality is here, but I only release updates after I personally bug test everything I can on bare metal, so more to come.

https://nobledoodle.github.io/ferricone/

Hey everyone!

I've been diving into Omarchy Linux lately and really enjoying the overall workflow. As we know, one of the best things about this environment is the complete freedom to run any application regardless of the toolkit used to build it (Qt, GTK, Electron, etc.).

At the same time, because there are no official Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) or UX standards for native apps, the overall visual and functional experience can end up feeling a bit fragmented.

It got me thinking about how great it would be if there were shared design guidelines for the community to reference—much like on macOS or GNOME, where having standardized conventions for things like:

* A consistent menu bar
* Button styling and standardized placement for primary actions
* Uniform modal windows and system behaviors
* Coherent keyboard shortcuts and layout patterns across apps

makes the user experience feel seamlessly integrated with the OS.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think a shared UX standard would bring real value to an environment like Omarchy (while maintaining full freedom in framework choices), or do you prefer the current approach driven by variety, CLI/TUI tools, and tiling WM workflows?

Curious to hear your perspectives!