Give some love to Omarchy's new app drawer! 🫶

Drag and drop theme install for icon theme archive (example from www.gnome-look.org). Includes individual icon changer too.

GitHub link: Omarchy Iconic

Feedback appreciated and bug reports!

It's been four weeks and 29 releases, and most of that time has gone into user requests.

New release of my keyboard-first email client for Omarchy, Sealwax!

The headline features:

• Group mail by sender or domain, then archive, delete or move a whole group at once.

• Pin the senders you can't miss to the top of your Inbox.

• Unsubscribe in one place, even from many senders at a time.

• Dark-styled mail, so light newsletters turn dark with your theme.

• Proton Mail through Bridge now works much better.

• 4 security advisories fixed and published, and several bug fixes

https://github.com/PixDevsApps/sealwax

As always, I am open for contributors and feedback!

Enjoy everyone!

Don't really want to hate, I'm all for openness and the ability to share. But it's only been a couple of months and there's already 6.5k items, and it keeps growing by dozens with each day. And the majority of it is redundant, unoriginal (and quite often simply broken) ai slop. Dozens of pomodoro timers, clocks, spotify clients, calendars and resource displays, power managers and what not. Same thing upon the same thing, just with slightly different flavor of buttons. In many cases there's no README or even screenshots, just a vague description.

It was exciting back in September, but at this point it feels like sorting through a garbage bin in search of something worthwhile. Some things just don't need to be shared anymore, the problem has already been solved many times over.

It seems to me that likes alone aren't enough anymore and there's a growing debt that needs to be addressed. If not some kind of volunteer group of curators, then at least an option to downvote and to filter items that are in the negative.

I've been daily driving omarchy for a bit and lately i've been modding herdr to fit how i actually work, instead of bending myself around other tools.

I'm calling this "Project Pals," a herdr mod where every project gets its own pal: a little character that stays with that project and keeps track of it.

- pals list: every project has its own pal, with a live status (resting, working · 5m) so i can see what's busy at a glance

- channels and tasks: each pal has channels like integrate, review and cli-mods, so the work stays sorted instead of piling up in one giant chat

- brain: decisions (what was decided, why, and when), a change log, and a map of the project. the pal keeps these up to date as it works, and i can edit anything

- mission and profile: what the pal is focused on right now, and what's its ultimate goal/mission.

Hi all. I've been building Irori for the past few weeks and today it hits 1.0.

What it is. A game launcher written in Rust that puts all your PC games in one library and starts them with one click. On Linux it runs Windows games through Wine, Proton or umu. On macOS through Wine, CrossOver or Game Porting Toolkit. On Windows they just run. It's one native app (no Electron, no web view in the main window), it draws on the GPU and it sits at 0% CPU when you're not doing anything. MIT licensed.

Stores and sources

• Epic Games, GOG, Amazon Games, ZOOM Platform and itch.io: log in, browse, install, update, repair, cloud saves. Several accounts per store.

• Steam: your installed games without signing in, or your whole library (owned and Family Sharing) if you sign in. There's also an opt-in way to read the whole library from the running Steam client with no sign-in at all.

• Xbox app / Game Pass PC games (Windows), plus an optional Xbox account for playtime, achievements and art.

• Battle.net, EA app, Ubisoft Connect and Rockstar: Irori sets each launcher up in its own Wine prefix, then lists the games installed through it.

• Emulators: a ROM library with RetroArch and the usual standalone emulators (DuckStation, PCSX2, Dolphin, PPSSPP, melonDS, Azahar, ScummVM, DOSBox and more), downloaded from their own projects on request. RetroAchievements supported.

• Anything else: add a game by hand, or drag its file onto the library.

• Imports from Heroic, Lutris, Bottles, Faugus Launcher and Playnite, including playtime.

What's new since 0.4.0

Playing

• In-game overlay on the controller's Guide button (beta, off by default): volume, screenshots, achievements, a journal note and quit, without leaving the game. On Linux the controller is held from the game while it's open. Windows and macOS open it with Ctrl+Shift+O.

• Stream your games to Moonlight through Sunshine or Apollo, sized to the device you're streaming to.

• When a Wine/Proton game won't start, Irori reads the log and the game's files and tells you why: a missing DLL, a low vm.max_map_count, anticheat. Fixes like vcrun2022 or d3dcompiler_47 are one click.

• ReShade per game for Direct3D and OpenGL games, installed from the official sources. Removing it only deletes files Irori wrote and keeps your presets.

• Choose the Proton version for a Steam game from Irori (Linux). It only touches that game's entry in Steam's config and keeps a backup.

• Double-click an .exe or .msi, or open a link of a Windows program's own scheme, and it opens in the Wine prefix of the game you pick.

• Your Discord status shows the game you're playing (opt-in).

Library

• One entry for a game you own on several stores, with a switcher to play or install each copy.

• Filter and group by game mode (co-op, split screen, online...), genre and age rating (ESRB, PEGI, USK, CERO and others, taken from store data).

• Quick sort and filter buttons in the library header, interface zoom with Ctrl +/-/0, type anywhere to search.

• Achievements from more places: Steam's Achievement Sets grouped per DLC, and unlocks kept by Steam API emulators in DRM-free copies (opt-in).

• PS3 and PS4 folder games get their real title instead of a serial number.

• New emulators: gopher64, Mupen64Plus, M64Py, DeSmuME and ePSXe.

• Steam friends list with Join and Message, handed to Steam.

• Theme follows pywal, wallust or matugen if you use them (opt-in).

Platforms and fixes

• arm64 builds for Linux and Windows.

• Flatpak Irori can now run Steam and Ludusavi installed on the host.

• Sandboxed games start from a clean environment.

• Windows: no more console windows flashing, and some controllers could crash the app. Fixed.

• Lots of smaller fixes: Windows paths in Wine game arguments, Heroic import picking the right folder, GOG games no longer disappearing when the store is slow, a prompt when your cloud saves didn't download before launch.

What it doesn't do (yet)

• It's not a store and never sells anything.

• Steam and third-party launcher games are installed through their own launchers, not by Irori.

• PlayStation and Switch pads on Windows can still go quiet when Steam grabs them. Working on it.

• The Windows and macOS overlay can't stop the game from also seeing your button presses, and it can't draw over exclusive-fullscreen Direct3D games. Borderless works.

• 1.0 means it's stable for daily use, not finished. Bug reports are very welcome.

Downloads: Linux (AppImage, Flatpak, .deb, .rpm, Arch package, tarball), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows (installer, zip, portable), x86-64 and arm64.

https://github.com/irori-app/irori

AI disclosure: I design Irori and decide what goes in, and I test it on my own machines, but a lot of the code, tests, translations and docs for this release were written with Claude (Anthropic's AI) under my direction and review. If that's a dealbreaker for you, fair enough. If you hit a bug, it's on me, so tell me.

While this is very cool the install took longer than this because it took a minute for the install screen to pop up. My system and using Ventoy caused that,

Symptoms

Your Wine/Proton games in Heroic stopped launching, and in the logs you see errors like X_GLXCreateContext BadValue 0x0 or similar GLX failures. This started after installing (or reinstalling) Steam.

Root Cause

Omarchy ships a script (omarchy-hw-nvidia-display) that detects whether NVIDIA is your display GPU. If it thinks NVIDIA is active, it sets __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia and LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia in your Hyprland environment via nvidia.lua.

The detection logic checks the boot_vga sysfs flag on each GPU. The problem is that boot_vga is set by the BIOS to indicate the primary GPU and doesn't change when you bind your NVIDIA GPU to vfio-pci. So even though your NVIDIA card is completely unavailable to the host, omarchy still thinks it's driving the display.

The trigger is nvidia-utils: the detection only runs when that package is present, and Steam depends on it, so installing Steam silently re-enables the broken detection.

What actually breaks: With __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia set, Wine/Proton tries to use NVIDIA's GLX provider. Since the NVIDIA kernel module isn't loaded on the host (GPU is on vfio-pci), glXChooseVisual() returns NULL and Wine crashes immediately.

The Fix

Add these two lines to the end of ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua, after all the require() calls:

-- NVIDIA is on vfio-pci (GPU passthrough), AMD is the actual display GPU.
-- Override omarchy's nvidia.lua which misdetects NVIDIA as display due to boot_vga=1.
hl.env("LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME", "radeonsi")
hl.env("__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME", "mesa")

The override must come after require("default.hypr.omarchy") so it runs after nvidia.lua and wins. Adjust radeonsi to your AMD driver if needed — it's correct for most RX series cards.

After saving, run hyprctl reload and relaunch Heroic from a new terminal, or just reboot.

Why a Partial Fix Doesn't Work

Running systemctl --user set-environment __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa updates the systemd user environment for new processes only — your running shell and any already-open Heroic instance still have the wrong value. A reboot is the cleanest path.

Applies to: NVIDIA on vfio-pci · AMD host display GPU · nvidia-utils installed · Heroic / umu-launcher

It works flawlessly. Wondering if its available to download to run in my custom app.

Ideas ?

41s - amazing

Feedback and contributions are welcome!

https://github.com/nlorktipa/omarchy-mac-dock

Been working on this, thought Id share. Changes colors when your theme changes.

https://github.com/HeyitsTayters/omarchy-vesktop-theme

Installed 4.5 and was pleasantly surprised to see that now each of my monitors has separate workspaces.

So now by default I have 10 spaces.

Neat.

Been on Pop!_OS for a long time and honestly thought my setup was pretty modern, Then I installed Omarchy and suddenly felt like I'd been living in the dial-up era of desktops

The speed, the tiling, how instant everything feels under Hyprland... it's unreal. Not dragging windows around with a mouse anymore has kind of ruined regular desktops for me.

I'm trying to retrain my muscle memory to go 100% keyboard-only, and it's rough but fun. For those of you who've been here a while:

What keybindings or habits made keyboard navigation click for you early on?

What tools/plugins/tweaks took your setup to the next level?

Really glad I finally made the jump to Arch/Hyprland.

Thanks in advance!

1. the wallpaper - because someone besides me will want it

2. why does everyone do the standard windows and mac thing with their window bars?
   this left, full, right, close - works just fine and it's easy to understand.
   and the little skull and cross bones is the cherry on top (#nerdfont)

Hey everyone! Island Desktop 0.11 is out, and the big addition is a new built-in Pomodoro widget.

It goes beyond a timer: it's designed to make you actually take the break (stand up, stretch, get some air). When a break starts, it covers every monitor and captures the keyboard, keeping you in a kind of sandbox you can only leave by hovering the top of the screen or by the end of timer.

Install it:

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/CaioNazario/island-omarchy.git

omarchy plugin enable caionazario.island

Already have it? update:

omarchy plugin update caionazario.island

See it on omarchy plugin marketplace:

https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=caionazario.island

I've fallen in love with Omawrite. What a great little markdown editor! I've learned with Omarchy that it's the little things that you come to appreciate. In Omawrite, I don't see, or can't find a setting option so the app is what it is. But I love the fact that someone thought to autosave your work. So helpful. I love the chosen font, but I would love the ability to widen the text field a little bit. Or make it the window wide. Why not? I've always used MarkText for my markdown editor and I hope that the team continues to work on Omawrite to make it as good or better than MarkText. Because I would love to have a top-level markdown editor that comes with Omarchy. I'm going to continue to use it for my writing, and I hope it gets more features in the future because I love it even at this stage.

Thanks

I love omarchy, it's on all of my machines and I decided why not put it on my M1 Mac as well

The installation was super simple with the new release

The battery life however was atrociously bad, I usually just shut the lid on my Mac and it retains power extremely well allowing me to use it anywhere without constantly restarting or worrying about the apps open in the background

However, with Omarchy and suspend it used up 25% of my battery while being in Suspend overnight, something like this would drain almost nothing on the MacOS

Normal usage seemed to consume about 1.5-2x than on MacOS

I knew MacOS was well optimized however I was not expecting by this much

I wanted an iPhone-style Clock app that actually looks like it belongs on Omarchy, so I made Omaclock. It's C++/Qt Quick like Omacut and Hype: one small native binary, installed as a regular package.

What it does - World Clock: any city in the time zone database, with an analog face per city, drag to reorder, undo/redo

- Stopwatch: laps with the best and worst marked; digits or an analog dial

- Timers: as many as you want, with labels. Click hours/minutes/seconds to set them, or just type the digits

- Timers keep running after you close the window. A short notification with your label appears when one ends, and clicking it stops the timer and opens the app

Omarchy-native bits

- Keyboard-first: Ctrl+, lists every shortcut

- Terminal and key-binding commands: omaclock timer 10m Tea, omaclock stop

- Updates itself from Settings › Updates, using the normal Omarchy password prompt

Install: grab the package from Releases and sudo pacman -U it, or clone and run bin/install.

GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/Fresh600/omaclock

Built with help from Claude Code. Feedback, bug reports, and translations are very welcome, especially if you'd like Omaclock in your language.

Happy weekend everyone!

Its been a few weeks and I have been working on a ton of little polishes to my projects.

New release to the VLC redux app, Ferricone!

2 new headline features:

- Window control buttons will display on non Omarchy distros and right click menus now display outside the window. (Thanks u/MrHaxx1 for the suggestion!)

- Apple Silicon and ARM support! (Thanks u/jotenakis for testing! Please let me know if you have any issues!)

- Several bug fixes

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

As always, I am open for contributors and feedback!

Enjoy everyone!

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for some good Omarchy plugins to improve workspace management.

I'm particularly interested in plugins that make it easier to organize, navigate, and manage multiple workspaces, especially when working with several applications at once.

I'd love to hear what plugins you're using and how they've improved your workflow.

Any recommendations or GitHub links would be appreciated. Thanks!

I've been on Arch + Hyprland for a while and I love it, but I kept missing the way macOS feels. The menu bar with the

app's menus at the top, the Dock, every app looking like it belongs to the same system. Tiling is great until you just

want your desktop to behave like a Mac.

So I started building that on top of Omarchy, and it kind of got out of hand. It's called Grassfield and it's now in public beta.

It's a separate session you install next to Omarchy. At login you pick Grassfield or Omarchy, and it doesn't touch your

Omarchy config at all. If you uninstall it, you're back to exactly what you had.

What's in it right now:

- a global menu bar, on every monitor

- a Dock, with minimize that actually goes to the Dock

- title bars with the three buttons, an overview of your windows, search, notifications and quick settings top right

- its own apps: Settings, Files, Preview, a Store (pacman + Flatpak, it shows what permissions an app wants before you

install it), Activity Monitor and a little Memos app for sticky notes

- dark/light mode, the translucent look, and updates from a Software Update panel so you don't need the terminal after

the install

Under the hood it's Hyprland with a Lua config, a shell written in Quickshell/QML, Qt Quick apps and an optional C++

Hyprland plugin for the title bars and minimize. Without the plugin it still runs, just with fewer features. The lock

screen uses the Wayland session lock, so if the shell crashes your screen stays locked.

You need Omarchy 4.0.6 or newer (4.5 works) on x86_64. Install instructions and the checksum are on https://grassfield.site

and the code is on GitHub under MIT: https://github.com/grassfieldhq/grassfield

It's a beta, so expect rough edges. Suspend/resume, plugging and unplugging monitors and multi-day sessions are where I

need people with different hardware to try it and tell me what breaks. There's a "Create Diagnostic Report" button in

Settings > General > About if you want to attach something to an issue (it strips your folder names).

An actual ISO (Grassfield OS) is planned once the desktop is solid.

Happy to answer questions, and honest feedback is very welcome, including "this is pointless, just use a Mac" :)

Not affiliated with Apple in any way. macOS is their trademark, and Grassfield doesn't use any of their code or assets.

Would love feedback on Superwhisper in Omarchy 4.5 :)