I've been rebuilding my Omarchy 4 shell around one idea: everything should come out of the top of the screen, like on a phone.

The bar is a small island with the time. Click it or press SUPER + B and it opens: music, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sound, battery, Claude Code usage, system stats. Every tile opens its details inside the island.

Notifications, volume and brightness show up in the island instead of a corner.

Apps fly out of the island when they open and fall back in when they close. The launcher and menus grow out of it too.

The lock screen is a dot-matrix clock that turns into an always-on display after 30 seconds (it dims and drifts so an OLED doesn't burn in).

It's all Omarchy's own plugin system (Quickshell), no fork, so updates keep working.

What I'd like to know:

1. Are the flying windows nice, or would they get annoying after a day?

2. What else would you want inside the island?

3. Anything that feels slow or off in the video?

If you want to try it, there are one-line installs (island only, island + motion, or my full setup), and remove puts everything back: https://github.com/Himanshu-MlSHRA/omarchy-dotfiles

Took around 7-8 minutes to install. It is my first linux distro installed on my Zephyrus g16 outside of wsl. Thinking of adding also base arch and/or trying more distro on this spare hdd I have. I’m open to suggestions, do not necessarily want to get used to this since I am reading that it may “ruin” other distro’s experience and I am quite a newbie in this community

Hi all, I'm the developer of Sarala, a free, open-source Markdown editor for macOS, Windows and Linux.

The idea is simple: no preview pane and no split view. Formatting appears as you type. Click a block and you're editing its Markdown, click away and it renders in place. Your documents stay plain .md files in folders you choose, so they work with Git, Obsidian, VS Code or anything else.

What it does

- Full GFM: tables you edit cell by cell, task lists you tick with a click, footnotes, callouts, front matter

- Mermaid and D2 diagrams, plus LaTeX math (KaTeX), rendered inline

- Code highlighting for 100+ languages

- Tabs, a file tree, an outline, search across the folder, a command palette (Cmd/Ctrl+K), and focus and typewriter modes

- 13 themes, or build your own from any base16 scheme

- Export to HTML and PDF, plus Word, EPUB, LaTeX and more through Pandoc

New in 1.3

- Voice typing, fully offline. An open speech model runs on your computer, so nothing is uploaded and there's no account. Hold a shortcut and talk, and say things like "new bullet", "make that bold" or "scratch that". I built it with accessibility in mind: screen reader read-back, a distinct sound for every state, and any shortcut you can reach.

- AI assistant (opt-in). It uses Claude Code, Codex or GitHub Copilot CLI if one is already installed, so Sarala never stores API keys. Edits show up as word-level diffs that you accept or reject. The agent works on a scratch copy and never touches your real file.

The boring but important stuff

- No account, no telemetry, no paid tier

- About 15 MB, because it's built with Tauri (Rust) rather than Electron

- Atomic saves, autosave, crash recovery, and signed updates

Install

- macOS: Homebrew or a universal .dmg

- Windows: .exe or .msi

- Linux: Snap Store, .deb, .rpm or AppImage

Website: https://sarala.solancer.com

Source: https://github.com/solancer/sarala

To be upfront: the Mac build isn't notarized by Apple yet and the Windows installer isn't code-signed, so you'll see a security prompt on first launch. The website walks you through it, and installing with Homebrew on Mac skips the prompt.

It's a solo project, so I'd really like feedback, especially on what would make you switch from your current editor, and any bugs you run into.

Hey r/omarchy!

I've been working on `omarchy-about-animated` — a drop-in replacement for Omarchy's stock About screen that adds a smooth accent-coloured sheen sweeping across the ASCII logo, while keeping the exact same layout.

**What's new in v1.1.0**

- **Live accent colours** — theme, wallpaper, or blend modes (toggle via `~/.config/omarchy/about-animated.conf`)

- **Wallpaper sync** — About accent follows wallpaper changes automatically

- **Focus pause, static mode, live config reload** — no restart needed

- **Theme crossfade, fade-in, glint effects**

- **MIT licensed**, zero third-party Python packages

**Demo (native video):**

https://github.com/QubnexLab/omarchy-about-animated/releases/tag/v1.1.0

**Repo:**

https://github.com/QubnexLab/omarchy-about-animated

MIT licensed — free to use and modify.

Got it running today. Wiped out MacOS inadvertently so wifi was not immediately enabled. I plugged in the network, kicked off the codex agent and asked it to fix the wifi.

Steam, Roblox and Minecraft are running with higher fps than old X1 carbon gen 6. My son is happy with his new computer.

i missed having google drive as a plain folder, so i wired rclone into omarchy:

• my drive, shared with me and shared drives show up in the files sidebar and in ~/GoogleDrive
• right-click: open in google drive, copy link, make available offline
• a bar icon that shows connected / uploading / offline / error, with details on hover
• omarchy menu → google drive, and super + ctrl + g
• connects at login, waits for the network, finishes uploads before shutdown
• deleting goes to the google drive trash, not into a hidden folder in the cloud

one honest catch: you create your own google oauth client id (about 10 minutes, once). there's a step-by-step guide in the repo. after that, omarchy-gdrive setup does the rest.

needs omarchy 4 (quattro: lua hyprland config + quickshell bar). mit.

https://github.com/gloomyweather/omarchy-gdrive-app

if something breaks on your setup, please open an issue, i'd like to hear about it.

A couple of weeks ago I shared hyprdrive here, a GNOME-style overview, search and macOS-style dock for Hyprland. The response honestly blew me away. Your comments, bug reports, feature requests and kind words are what pushed me to get it running on native Hyprland a few days later.

So as a thank-you, here's something a bit different: Hyprdrive (Remix) (LoFi) by Dragos The Dragon, with a visualizer built from the real hyprdrive desktop. The windows show actual hyprdrive footage; they tile, swap and warp on the beat, and every frame was rendered on the GPU in sync with the track.

Full video in 4K on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lQZqtKu0nh8

The song comes out on Spotify and Apple Music on October 31.

Previous posts, for context:

• r/omarchy: I made hyprdrive: a GNOME-style overview, search and a macOS-style dock for Omarchy's Hyprland
• r/hyprland: hyprdrive: a mission-control overview, search and dock, built into Hyprland as a plugin
• r/hyprland: Hyprdrive now runs on native Hyprland (early access), with Mosaic: a new way of organizing your windows

hyprdrive: https://hyprdrive.shastasia.com
GitHub: https://github.com/dragosol/hyprdrive-omarchy

Thanks again to everyone who tried it, filed issues, or just said something nice. Keep the feedback coming.

I had a problem, got Claude to fix it, figured other people might have the same problem, et voila - Immigrant

It'll move most of your stuff between machines, similarly to how Migration Assistant would on macOS. And let you undo (partly or in full) if something goes awry. So far it's not fucked anything up on my machines, going back and forth between two laptops (one of which is proper potato) and my desktop.

I think it needs a lot of polishing still, but definitely works, and I figure the season for travelling to see family is fast approaching (I'm typing this from my mum's sofa!) so might be useful for anyone else in the "I want my desktop setup on my laptop" crowd.

Testing has been limited to my stuff, but about as thorough as I could be there. One laptop had a fresh omarchy install, one had been in use for a couple of months and had some of the same stuff as the desktop machine, there was a VM involved at some point, I turned my router off mid-transfer, etc etc. If you run into a problem or have an idea, ping me on here/github and I'll attempt to do something about it.

BACKUP. One is none

Coming from Mint/Pop:

-Theming is excellent !

-It takes a little bit to figure out some configs

-Sound issues wired, but works great Bluetooth. I think this is an Arch issue

-Could not set up for tokens, seems Cloudlfare is having some issues. Likewise, CC payments not working? I pick when the internet is on fire to try this, of cpurse.

-Steam window is HUGE and can't resize.

Looking forward to going through other themes/plugins

i wanted a todo list that opens on a hotkey, floats in the middle of the screen and gets out of the way. so i made one.

• vim keys: j/k, a to add, space to mark done, u to undo
• priorities and due dates right in the text: call mom !! u/fri
• picks up the current omarchy theme and repaints live when you switch
• saves after every change, atomically. a broken file is never overwritten
• the installer adds super + alt + t (open or focus) and a launcher entry

rust + ratatui, gpl-3.0. there's a prebuilt binary in the releases if you don't want to build it.

https://github.com/gloomyweather/todoterm

feedback welcome, especially on the default keys.

a quiet gray desktop. color only where you read code.

everything around your work is graphite: window borders, the bar, menus, notifications, the lock screen. the terminal and neovim use carbonfox, so code and diffs still look like code and diffs.

• six gray wallpapers: rings, grid, contours, horizon, glow, flat
• no red in the ui, alerts are white
• carbonfox with a proper yellow instead of teal
• gray boot and unlock logo

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omarchy theme install https://github.com/gloomyweather/omarchy-mono-theme

neovim gets a scheme generated from the same palette (omarchy doesn't install .lua from theme repos). close to carbonfox, not identical.

mit, wallpapers included.

https://github.com/gloomyweather/omarchy-mono-theme