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This video is not actually Omarchy but a Quickshell demo.

As DHH said on X, Omarchy is going all-in on Quickshell.

This is very promising but it might be a rough transition, especially for those who put a lot of effort into customizing their Waybar!

cat is a command I use all the time to view the content of text files.

If you've never used cat, open a terminal with SUPER + ENTER and try it on your Bash config:

cat ~/.bashrc

For a distro like Omarchy, which puts a strong emphasis on aesthetics, this plain black-and-white output is a bit disappointing.

Let's fix that.

Omarchy ships with a cat replacement named bat. Its motto is "a cat clone with wings". It includes syntax highlighting, Git integration, and pagination.

Try it on the same file:

bat ~/.bashrc

Now you get colours, line numbers, and pagination. Nice!

Read the full post here: https://sudomarchy.com/posts/colour-the-cat

Spotify is my music streaming platform of choice and I love that they have a Linux client that comes bundled with Omarchy.

Unfortunately, that client is an Electron app and it’s a memory and process hog, even when minimized to the system tray. So much so that it’s the main reason my computer fan kicks in. Listening to music with the background noise of a fan, when I’m not wearing headphones, is not what I would call the best audiophile experience.

After trying different optimizations and alternative clients, I settled on spotifyd, which is a small Spotify Connect daemon that runs in the background.

Now I can open the Spotify app on my computer or my phone, select a playlist, close the app completely, and let the daemon play the music. Playback controls like play/pause and previous/next track work with the daemon, so I only open Spotify when I want to change the playlist.

Read the full post here: https://sudomarchy.com/posts/stop-spotify-from-hogging-your-cpu-and-memory