The menu, emoji picker, clipboard, OSD, reminder flow and Wi-Fi QR code
mapped a fresh surface on every open. Qt drew its first frames before
Hyprland sent the surface's fractional scale: the pixel ratio stepped
2, 1, then 1.6, so on a 1.6 display each overlay showed blurry for
~350ms before going sharp.
A new OverlayWindow keeps the surface. Hidden, it parks as a 1x1,
input-less layer below windows, off the overlay layer so it never
blocks direct scanout. Showing only resizes and raises it, so the scale
is already settled. Content stays hidden until the surface has grown,
so no 1x1 frame is stretched across the screen, and the window follows
the focused monitor each time it is shown. The image picker's own
fullscreen parking moves onto it too.
Each parked overlay keeps a Qt window alive: at rest the shell holds
~40 MiB more RSS and ~20 MiB more GPU memory.
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Every binding that opened a menu or panel ran omarchy-menu or
omarchy-shell, which starts a qs client just to deliver one IPC call:
~60ms before the shell heard about the keypress.
The shell now registers a Hyprland global shortcut for each menu route
and panel in default/omarchy/shortcuts, and o.bind turns { menu = ... }
and { panel = ... } into hl.dsp.global for those, so a keypress spawns
nothing. A route or panel missing from the list binds through the
command as before. The default menu and panel bindings use the new form.
SUPER+SPACE opens the menu in ~31ms instead of ~94ms, measured from a
simulated keypress until the menu layer maps.
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* Speed up theme switch by backgrounding preload and parallelizing browser refresh
`omarchy theme set` was blocking on `omarchy-theme-switcher --preload` (~1.1s)
and serially refreshing every Chromium-family browser (~1.0-1.5s), making a
picked theme feel slow even though the shell recolored instantly.
- Background `omarchy-theme-switcher --preload` like the background cache
- In `omarchy-theme-set-browser`, skip the privileged policy write and browser
refreshes when every existing `color.json` already has the requested color
- Refresh only running browsers, and run those refreshes in parallel
Fixes#12627.
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* Harden the unchanged-color shortcut in omarchy-theme-set-browser
Review feedback identified that the original shortcut could vacuously skip
when no managed policy directories existed, and that it accepted a color.json
whose ownership or contents the privileged writer would have rewritten.
- Only skip when at least one managed directory exists and every existing
color.json is a regular, root-owned 0644 file containing the canonical JSON
- Add OMARCHY_BROWSER_POLICY_DIRS as a test-only override so the setter's
unchanged-color check does not depend on the host's real /etc policy files
- Update browser-policy-sudoers-test.sh to use that override, and make
theme-set-browser-test.sh behavioral rather than grep-only
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* Find running browsers with one process scan during the policy write
Each browser check ran its own pgrep, and every pgrep rescans /proc,
~40ms apiece. Read the process table once with ps while the policy
writer runs, keeping its stdin so a terminal sudo prompt stays in the
terminal, then refresh the running browsers in parallel.
Chrome's fallback to plain google-chrome never ran: the refresh helper
returned success for a missing browser, so the || branch was dead. Pick
whichever Chrome binary exists up front instead.
The unchanged-color shortcut keeps its root:root 0644 check without the
fallback for hosts lacking stat -c, which Omarchy never runs on. Its
tests stub stat, ps and command discovery, so they neither depend on
nor touch the host's browsers.
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* Decode the next theme background while the theme stages
The wipe waited 125-290ms after the transition arrived, decoding the new
wallpaper. Most stock wallpapers are WebP, which Qt decodes at full size
and scales afterwards, so a screen-sized sourceSize does not shorten it.
Start the decode earlier instead. omarchy-theme-set chooses the next
background and snapshots it before rendering templates, then sends a new
background prepare call in the background. The shell loads it into the
hidden incoming frame, so the transition finds it decoded. A prepare that
arrives after its transition is ignored, and one no transition claims is
dropped after five seconds.
The wipe now starts ~255ms after omarchy-theme-set begins instead of
~345-490ms.
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* Decode the wallpaper at screen size instead of shipped size
Wallpapers decoded at the resolution they were shipped at: a 5120x2880
stock wallpaper took 5120x2880 of RGBA on a 1920x1200 panel, and a
transition held up to three such frames. Bind sourceSize on the
displayed wallpaper and both transition frames to the screen's physical
size. PreserveAspectCrop treats it as the area to cover, so the image
still fills the screen.
Qt scales a decode up as well as down to cover sourceSize, so the native
size is read from the file header first with magick identify, and a
wallpaper smaller than the screen decodes at its own size. The images
wait for both sizes, so nothing decodes at native size first.
Ported from #8324 onto BackgroundMedia and the prepared incoming frame.
Measured with a 5120x2880 wallpaper, the shell's GPU memory at rest
drops from 264 MiB to ~148 MiB. The size probe delays the reveal by
~30ms, which the earlier prepare still more than covers.
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A theme switch waits on omarchy-theme-set-templates before the shell
transition starts, and it spent ~670ms spawning processes: a subshell
per color for its rgb form, a grep per template per function family, an
awk per mix, and a sed per template matching every line against
hundreds of patterns.
Helpers now return through REPLY, one grep finds the function tokens
across all templates, and one awk computes the mixes with the same
floating point rounding and renders every template. Output is byte for
byte identical across all shipped themes. Generation takes ~65ms, and
the transition starts ~130ms after omarchy-theme-set begins instead of
~740ms.
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* Run menu summon actions in-process
A menu action that only summons another shell plugin spawned bash and a
qs ipc client to ask this same shell to do it, about 60ms of the path.
Call shell.summon directly instead, and fall back to bash when the call
is refused or the action is anything more than a bare summon.
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* Open the theme picker from rows held in the shell
Opening the theme picker ran omarchy-theme-switcher to rebuild its index
and then made a second IPC call, about 170ms before the picker mapped.
The picker now holds the theme rows itself, opens from them at once, and
refreshes them behind the open via omarchy-theme-switcher --print-rows.
It applies the chosen theme with omarchy-theme-set directly, so
omarchy-theme-set no longer preloads the picker.
From the keybinding to the overlay mapped drops from ~245ms to ~83ms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Keep the image picker surface mapped between opens
Each open mapped a fresh surface, which rendered its first frames before
Hyprland sent its fractional scale: the pixel ratio stepped 2, 1, then
1.6, so the picker flashed blurry for ~130ms and re-uploaded every
thumbnail texture. Keep the surface and park it transparent and
input-less on the bottom layer while closed, since anything on the
overlay layer blocks direct scanout for fullscreen apps. It follows the
focused monitor on each open.
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5db4a401 fixed the installer, but machines already installed offline
still pin Node to the ISO's exact version, so mise up never updates it.
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Stopping stay-awake sends TERM to the held process, which was an exec'd
sleep. systemd-inhibit reports a child killed by a signal as an error, so
every update ended with "'/usr/bin/setpriv' terminated by signal TERM."
The held process now stays a shell that traps TERM, kills its sleep, and
exits cleanly.
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By name, the sudo call resolved through secure_path, which puts /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin and falls back to the caller's PATH where no secure_path is set, so an install could run a different helper than the pinned path did. $OMARCHY_PATH/bin is the package's symlink into /usr/bin on an install and the checkout under a dev link, so neither PATH nor secure_path takes part.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
Pinning /usr/bin ran the packaged helper even where the migration came from somewhere else. Under a dev link the migration is read from the checkout while /usr/bin still holds the last installed package, and a package predating __migrate prints its usage and fails the update. By name, the unprivileged call goes through PATH and the sudo call through secure_path, which is how other migrations reach their helpers and which lands on /usr/bin on an install.
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* Ask for the sudo password once per omarchy update
Every sudo call in omarchy update prompted, because the no-update wrapper
covered the whole run on top of per-phase revokes, and stay-awake revoked
the timestamp on its own entry and exit. A single update could ask four
times before the snapshot finished (#13319).
Authorize once, right after confirmation, starting from a revoked
timestamp so the prompt always belongs to this update. A background
keepalive refreshes it until the update is done. Prune, snapshot,
stay-awake, keyring, system packages, migrations, orphan removal, service
restarts, the post-update hook, and mise all share that authorization.
AUR builds run third-party PKGBUILD code, so they move to the end and run
cold: the keepalive stops, the timestamp is revoked, and yay and any bare
sudo use the no-update wrapper. The timestamp is revoked again after AUR
and on every exit.
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* Keep the single authorization for passwordless sudo and ttyless inhibition
Authorize by running a command instead of sudo -v. Under the default
verifypw=all, -v prompts even when passwordless sudo is enabled, which
would have added a prompt those users never had.
Inside an update without a terminal, stay-awake now reuses the update's
authorization with a non-interactive sudo instead of asking again through
polkit. It falls back to polkit only if that authorization is gone.
The test sudo refuses a cold non-interactive call, as the real one does.
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With the venv active, a gateway started by hand is `python -m hermes_cli.main gateway run`: the interpreter is bare, the executable resolves outside the runtime, and no runtime path is on the command line, so the removal took it for a stranger and refused over the files it holds rather than closing it. Hermes's own package named with -m is the program.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove > AI refused whenever anything had Hermes's files open and told the user to close it and try again, and the thing open was Hermes: the agent in the terminal that choosing it as the default agent leaves running, the desktop app, a gateway. Those are the removal's to close. It now stops the gateway unit that upstream's `hermes gateway install` wrote, since that unit starts the runtime about to be deleted and would start it again the moment it was killed, then ends every process whose program lives in that runtime or in the package, and only then refuses over whatever is left, which is somebody else's: an editor on a skill, a shell sitting in ~/.hermes, a writer on the state database. Both are judged by the program, never by a later argument or by the home served, so an editor opened on a runtime file is the user's and a unit running a Hermes kept elsewhere is left alone whatever home it serves; for an interpreter the program is the script it runs, so a gateway started by hand as `python .../hermes gateway run` is found too. The refusal comes before anything is touched, so a run that stops leaves Hermes running as it was. A unit that will not stop still aborts the removal, as dropping the package would strand a live gateway on deleted code.
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Resolve color references iteratively and use the caller's fallback when a reference repeats. Preserve normal palette roles, color parsing and gradient first stops.
Reported-by: Aleksej <aleksejhairov@yandex.ru>
The refusals that leave a self-installed Hermes alone came before the command was replaced only for a finished runtime. An unfinished one was still bootstrapped over a git status that could not be read, since a failed status read as a clean tree, and a half-built app beside it, or an edit the Linux runtime patch could not land on, was found only after the user's command had been saved aside and replaced and main switched. All three are asked first now, in both states, so a run that is going to stop leaves the launcher, the checkout and ~/.local/bin as they were.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hermes is only ever installed through the app. Choosing it as the default agent used to stand aside for a hermes that worked but came from somewhere else, and to refuse one that predated seeded sessions; both left the machine on a Hermes that was not the app's, which is the one Omarchy prepares for in-app updates and hands the theme to. Now --check answers only for the app's own Hermes, and --now installs the app whatever answered to hermes before, saving the previous command aside as it always did for the app path. The desktop installer no longer adds the package itself, since the shared install does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The re-point of a user plugin link stranded by the elsewhen package moving from plugins/ to shell/plugins/ landed in migration 1789581661, which every machine updated between that migration shipping and the package moving had already applied. omarchy-migrate keys completion on the filename alone, so the repair never ran where it was needed. On a dev checkout the shell discovers the packaged plugin only through that link, and a rescan drops a dangling one, so Elsewhen vanished from the bar on the first shell start after the package upgrade.
Renaming the file runs the whole migration again everywhere. Each step is safe to repeat: the package add is a no-op once installed, both link branches are guarded, the rescan is best-effort, and the put keeps an existing placement. The new test holds a state directory with only the old marker and checks the renamed file is still pending, which the old name could not pass.
Whether the environment mise built is gone was read by searching the global listing for the prefix `"pipx:hermes-agent`, so a tool that merely starts the same way, `pipx:hermes-agent-tools` say, read as the retired one still requested. Removing the real one changed nothing, the recheck failed again, and the migration stayed pending on every update. The key is matched whole now, with or without its options.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The wait before clearing a stale shallow.lock looked for a git whose command line began with `git`, so one started as `/usr/bin/git`, which is what a caller that resolved it with `which` runs, was never seen: its lock, once a minute old, would have been cleared under it and a second fetch started against the same shallow file. The path is allowed only ahead of the name, at the start of the command line, so a process that merely names git in an argument, an editor opened on /usr/bin/git from inside the runtime say, is not waited for.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Upstream's installer runs `npx playwright install chromium` for the browser tools, and npx asks before fetching a package it does not have. Over ssh, with no terminal, it goes ahead; in the floating terminal the menu opens for choosing Hermes it printed "Ok to proceed? (y)" and waited, so an install a user had every reason to walk away from sat there until someone typed y. The mise-built Hermes this replaces never asked anything. `--skip-setup` already answers the wizard the same way, and the app's own bootstrap never had a terminal to ask in.
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The 2026-09-19 revision of this migration, and a symlink then shipped under config/, pointed every install's ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/omacom.elsewhen at /usr/share/omarchy/plugins/omacom.elsewhen. elsewhen 1.0.0-2 moved to shell/plugins, so the link dangles, the shell lists the plugin as enabled but never loads it, and the bar carries an empty slot. The migration kept any existing link, resolving or not, so a rerun could not repair it. A link into /usr/share/omarchy that no longer resolves is Omarchy's own and is re-pointed; a link the user made is still left alone.
A bare `omarchy-shell shell rescanPlugins` exits 1 when no shell answers on the caller's tree, and omarchy-migrate runs migrations under `set -e`, so an update run from a TTY or over ssh, or one whose shell had gone down while the package replaced its QML, died at "omarchy-shell is not running" before its post-update hooks, shell restart and reboot prompt, and re-failed the same way every time until a shell could be asked. The rescan is now best-effort, like `omarchy-bar put` already is and like #11117 makes the plugin commands' closing rescan: the update restarts the shell once the migrations are through, and a session without one has no bar to place on. An unknown widget on a live shell still leaves the migration pending.
Choosing Hermes as the default agent built it through mise: a pipx environment with no checkout, so `hermes update` had nothing to move, and the only Hermes that could update itself was the one Hermes Desktop set up. Both paths now run the same setup. omarchy-install-hermes-cli installs the hermes-desktop package and runs upstream's installer from it, pinned to the packaged release and started on main, exactly as Install > AI did; omarchy-install-ai-hermes is that plus opening the app. The terminal, the default agent and the app share one runtime, and it updates itself.
--check answers whether --now has anything left to do, not merely whether a hermes runs: choosing Hermes from the menu asks first and opens a terminal only on a no, so a yes has to mean no minutes-long step would run where nobody can see it. With the app installed that means the runtime's own command, its completion marker and the seeded packaged app; a finished runtime whose command is gone, somebody else's, or its own but unable to run gets it back from upstream's path stage without bootstrapping again. Either way the command has to be the one PATH finds, because omarchy-agent runs bare `hermes` and Omarchy puts mise's shims ahead of ~/.local/bin; a command in the way is named rather than installed over. The modes are named outright because the app's launcher used to call this command with no arguments to reconcile a mise copy; a default of --now would turn every launch into an install. --check still refuses to run the retired wrapper, since running it built Hermes through mise, and a machine whose migration is pending can still have it on PATH.
Provisioning no longer writes the wrapper, Remove Preinstalls no longer looks for it, and the wrapper, the environment it built and what proves them Omarchy's are known to the installer alone: --retire-mise is the migration's whole job, and --now runs the same removal once the runtime installer has saved the wrapper aside, so a user who chose Hermes before their migration ran is not left with mise's shim answering `hermes`. Only the wrapper proves the environment is Omarchy's, at its path or in that saved copy, so the environment goes first and the wrapper last, judged by mise neither having it installed nor still requesting it; a removal that leaves either behind, or a listing that cannot be read, mise missing included, stops with the commands to finish by hand and leaves the migration pending. The migration that once installed the wrapper is kept as a no-op for late updaters, and one whose default agent was Hermes is told to choose it again.
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