r/omarchy

Would you recommend Omarchy as a starting point on Linux? Btw in new here so no idea if that flair is good for this topic

so I switched from Ubuntu to Omarchy primarily because i wanted to use hyprland and have good themes. When i came across omarchy i just ell in love with it. I was like I couldn't be any luckier I was just thinking about switching to Arch but also did not have much knowldege of hyprland. I Prepared a usb and boom I had omarchy. that was lik 9 months ago. Anything I didn't like about Omarchy?, no as a developer in Hardware(Fpga's,RTL) and Software too, i enojyed it. Until i updated it. I remember that i could press Ctrl+Super+space to get the option to change the wallpaper. That was good. But now i can't do that, If i want to change wallpaper I have to go into Styles-->Themes then find that theme and then the wallpaper changes. If a theme has many wallpapers, I have to do this so many times to get to the wallpaper that i like. I posted my issue on Discord But did not get Any help. Anyways I love omarchy and I dont think I will switch ever. Apologies for bad english.

built something i've been wanting for a while.

an ai quota monitor for waybar. track usage across claude, gemini, openai, and more right from your status bar.

simple, lightweight, and open source.

https://github.com/gelzinn/omarchy-ai-status

https://preview.redd.it/do43ayw7a9bh1.png?width=348&format=png&auto=webp&s=b5faf2c246a0a5a731153ffdc3b737f05aa26aec

I frequently change my theme - light during day, dark during night. I'd love to have custom backgrounds available to all themes. When I go through the menu > install > style > background, it pops the directory for the current theme. Is there to add a background.jpg so it's available in the theme menu for all themes - not just the current one?

I've been lucky enough to be given a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3x for free, and my planned first action was to wipe Windows 11 off it forever and install Omarchy. Unfortunately I've just learned that the laptop's Qualcomm Snapdragon X processor doesn't natively support Arch, and by extension, Omarchy.

I'm not keen on or confident with experimenting to get Omarchy up and running, so I thought I'd ask the community for suggested alternatives that would work and offer a similar experience? The more out-of-the-box the better, but if I have to make a few tweaks here and there for a distro close in quality to Omarchy then I'm willing to do a bit of extra work.

Still, I'm gutted Omarchy won't work, because I'm using it on my current (dated Dell) laptop and love the interface and concept!

This is from a perspective of a GTM engg. working in a company that has an AI governance product that is helping huge orgs figure out what's really going on in their company when it comes to "who is using AI, how and for what" and what compliance gaps its creating etc.

For context, I have been running Linux since 2013, I played with big distros until I settled with Mint just for productivity sake. I ran arch forks for a short period of time but hardware issues forced me back to mint. As time went by, I realized I didnt care much about DE as long as I got my work done. When Omarchy and Hyprland appeared,

I wanted to try Hyprland on my current distro especially that using a mouse for a long period of time caused me wrist pain.

Since it was running on X11, my only choice was to pick a compatible WM and I ended up with I3. My goal was to get used to the idea and the config of a window manager before I jump too deep with Omarchy.

After 4 months of I3, I decided to switch to Omarchy and felt right at home thanks to my familiarity with I3.

I am on Day 3 running Omarchy and I am super comfortable and productive with it. I even installed the Vimium chrome extension so I can manipulate the browser from the keyboard.

I would love to hear about your experiences and any tips to learn more about Linux and accessibility.

Hey everyone, how’s it going?
I’ve been trying to recreate Omarchy’s/hyperland tab manager for macOS, but the macOS environment feels pretty restrictive for this kind of tooling. I even considered building my own utility from scratch, but I keep running into the same limitations, especially since I don’t want to use Swift. I would like to use C for this.

Do you have any recommendations or ideas on how to approach this? Has anyone built something similar on macOS without relying on Swift?

Hola! Estoy teniendo algunos problemas con el botón derecho en algunas aplicaciones.

Por ejemplo, en thunderbird al seleccionar un mensaje y hacer click en el botón derecho no responde bien, thunderbird quiere sacar su menú de opciones y al mismo tiempo Omarchy quiere lanzar el suyo propio.

Es una lucha de poder ⚔️

En otras apps o servicios web (Gmail) también me ocurre, el menú derecho quiere lanzarse y produce una inestabilidad que da mucha rabia. Supongo que a alguien más le ocurre, tenéis algún truco o posibilidad de minimizarlo?

Gracias