Add a no-animations mode, on by default in VMs (#13550)

A machine without a GPU, like most VMs, renders through llvmpipe on the
CPU, where every animated frame and every translucent window costs. In a
VM, opening and closing a terminal took ~5s of CPU; a panel ~3.4s.

omarchy toggle animations (also under Toggle > Animations) places a Hyprland
flag that turns off animations, blur and shadows and makes windows opaque.
The shell follows Hyprland's animations:enabled, rereading it on every
config reload: its one-shot animations run for Style.duration(ms), which
is then 0, and its spinners, pulses and title marquee hold still. A new
install in a VM starts with the flag in place.

Measured in the ISO test VM (llvmpipe), CPU per interaction:
terminal open+close 5000ms -> 481ms, workspace switch 1670ms -> 409ms,
audio panel 3446ms -> 796ms, volume OSD 2324ms -> 584ms, menu 2028ms ->
1241ms.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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pragma Singleton
import QtQuick
import Quickshell
import Quickshell.Hyprland
import Quickshell.Io
// Shared structural style tokens for the shell. Color is the palette
@@ -347,9 +348,19 @@ QtObject {
readonly property int statusSlot: root.barToken("status-slot", 21)
}
// Off with Hyprland's own animations, as `omarchy toggle animations` turns
// them off for machines that render on the CPU. Every shell animation runs
// for Style.duration(ms), which is then 0, so nothing is drawn in between.
property bool reduceMotion: false
function duration(ms) {
return reduceMotion ? 0 : ms
}
function refresh() {
hyprctlProc.running = true
gapsOutProc.running = true
animationsProc.running = true
}
function scheduleRefresh() {
@@ -448,6 +459,30 @@ QtObject {
}
}
property Process animationsProc: Process {
id: animationsProc
command: ["hyprctl", "-j", "getoption", "animations:enabled"]
stdout: StdioCollector {
waitForEnd: true
onStreamFinished: {
try {
root.reduceMotion = JSON.parse(text || "{}").bool === false
} catch (e) {
// hyprctl missing / Hyprland not running — leave the previous value.
}
}
}
}
// A reload is when the animations toggle, a theme or the user's own config
// lands, and Hyprland only announces it once the new values are in effect.
property Connections hyprlandEvents: Connections {
target: Hyprland
function onRawEvent(event) {
if (event && String(event.name) === "configreloaded") root.refresh()
}
}
property Process gapsOutProc: Process {
id: gapsOutProc
command: ["hyprctl", "-j", "getoption", "general:gaps_out"]