r/omarchy

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I’ve seen a lot of Linux-themed deskmats and cheat sheets, but I’m still pretty new to Linux and couldn’t find anything specifically made for Omarchy.

Since Omarchy is so keyboard-driven, I decided to make my own 90 x 40 cm mouse pad design using the hotkeys from the official Omarchy manual.

It’s not official merch or anything, just a personal project for my setup. I’m planning to send it to print, so feedback is welcome before I do especially if you spot any wrong or missing shortcuts.

If you're running a multi-monitor setup in omarchy and want to cycle through workspaces on each monitor independently using a mouse button or keybind, the built-in dispatchers don't quite cut it:

• workspace e+1 cycles through all workspaces across all monitors
• focusworkspaceoncurrentmonitor still pulls workspaces assigned to other monitors

So I put together a small script that only cycles through workspaces already on the active monitor, and opens a fresh empty workspace if there's only one.

Open up a terminal and paste the following:

cat > ~/.local/bin/workspace-cycle.sh << 'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
DIRECTION=$1  # "next" or "prev"

# Get active monitor and its current workspace
MONITOR=$(hyprctl monitors -j | jq -r '.[] | select(.focused == true)')
CURRENT=$(echo $MONITOR | jq -r '.activeWorkspace.id')
MONITOR_NAME=$(echo $MONITOR | jq -r '.name')

# Get all workspaces on this monitor, sorted
WORKSPACES=$(hyprctl workspaces -j | jq -r --arg m "$MONITOR_NAME" \
    '[.[] | select(.monitor == $m)] | sort_by(.id) | .[].id')

IDS=($WORKSPACES)
COUNT=${#IDS[@]}

# If only one workspace on this monitor, open a new empty one
if [ "$COUNT" -le 1 ]; then
    hyprctl dispatch workspace empty
    exit 0
fi

# Find next/prev in list
for i in "${!IDS[@]}"; do
    if [ "${IDS[$i]}" = "$CURRENT" ]; then
        if [ "$DIRECTION" = "next" ]; then
            TARGET=${IDS[$(( (i + 1) % COUNT ))]}
        else
            TARGET=${IDS[$(( (i - 1 + COUNT) % COUNT ))]}
        fi
        hyprctl dispatch workspace $TARGET
        break
    fi
done    
EOF
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/workspace-cycle.sh

Then add to your ~/.config/hypr/bindings.conf:

bind = SHORTCUT_KEY1, SHORTCUT_KEY2, exec, ~/.local/bin/workspace-cycle.sh next
bind = SHORTCUT_KEY1, SHORTCUT_KEY2, exec, ~/.local/bin/workspace-cycle.sh prev

Not sure what your shortcut key/mouse button is called? Run wev and press it to find out.

I’ve been using Ghostty as my main terminal since switching to Omarchy, but I recently decided to give foot a real try because of how lightweight and incredibly fast it is.

At first, I really missed Ghostty’s built-in tabs and panes. But now that tmux is so well integrated into Omarchy, I ended up remapping my most-used Ghostty shortcuts in tmux instead, and the workflow has been surprisingly smooth.

Curious what others think. Have you tried Foot yet?

If you've ever wanted to rebind keys in Omarchy but couldn't figure out the exact key names to use in your config, here's a simple trick that solves that problem entirely.

Steps

1. Open a terminal
2. Run: wev
3. Press any key or button you're interested in
4. Look for the sym field in the output — that's your key name

Keys worth considering for rebinding

There are quite a few keys that sit largely unused on a typical keyboard and are great candidates for repurposing:

Menu — the context menu key (usually between Right Alt and Right Ctrl)
Control_R — Right Control
Alt_R — Right Alt
Scroll_Lock — almost universally unused these days
Pause / Break — another relic most people never touch

What is wev?

wev (Wayland Event Viewer) is a small utility that listens for and prints input events in real time — keyboard presses, mouse clicks, scroll wheel movement, you name it. Every time you interact with your input devices, wev logs the details to the terminal, including the exact key name you'll need for rebinding. It's the most reliable way to get the correct name for whatever key you're working with.

Hope this helps someone!

I really like omarchy, but for some reason the file manager crashes all the freaking time, I've tried changing env (I have Nvidia on my desktop) but it doesn't solve anything, I have omarchy in both desktop and laptop, and it happens in both of them.
Does someone know why it crashes?, I've already looked up the logs and it doesn't say anything at all:
** Message: 17:53:29.762: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files

nautilus-application-Message: 17:53:29.763: Failed to initialize display server connection: Cannot invoke method; proxy is for the well-known name org.gnome.Mutter.ServiceChannel without an owner, and proxy was constructed with the G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_DO_NOT_AUTO_START flag

(org.gnome.Nautilus:31939): Gsk-WARNING **: 17:53:29.932: The new GL renderer has been renamed to gl. Try GSK_RENDERER=help

Segmentation fault (core dumped) nautilus

I know there is a warning about the GL renderer, I've tried changing it but it still crashed.

Hello
today i update my OS today and just to find the universal copy and paste ' SUPER C/V' is not working
i want to
`~/.local/share/omarchy/default/hypr/bindings/clipboard.conf`

change from

`bindd = SUPER, C, Universal copy, sendshortcut, CTRL, Insert,

bindd = SUPER, V, Universal paste, sendshortcut, SHIFT, Insert,

bindd = SUPER, X, Universal cut, sendshortcut, CTRL, X,`

to

`bindd = SUPER, C, Universal copy, sendshortcut, CTRL, Insert, activewindow

bindd = SUPER, V, Universal paste, sendshortcut, SHIFT, Insert, activewindow

bindd = SUPER, X, Universal cut, sendshortcut, CTRL, X, activewindow`

and it worked

i don't know how it worked but it worked
i hope it help anyone

Let in the comments some good themes for programming (with good contrast and colors) pls,

most themes that I see around here it's really bad for this

As you know, Hyprland is switching to a .lua configuration file system. Does anyone know if these files will be updated automatically when we upgrade to Omarchy 3.9? I have modified my configuration files slightly and I always wonder whether Omarchy updates them automatically or if I have to reroll them manually using the menu.