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.
Restarting immediately after the plugin rescan races Quickshell IPC handler creation and can crash the exiting shell. The normal update flow already restarts after migrations. Let this migration finish through live enablement and placement without adding timing workarounds.
Link the package into the existing plugin directory and let bar put handle enablement, clock-relative placement, and the missing-clock fallback. Preserve user checkouts and existing placements, and seed the same link for new users. This removes the Atreyu packaged-discovery prerequisite and the checkout cleanup and JSON rewrite machinery.
Retire only checkouts whose refs and reflogs are reachable from recorded origin history, and preserve ignored files. Leave configs without an explicit supported bar layout untouched so migration does not replace the shell fallback with an almost empty bar.
Co-Authored-By: Codex XHigh <noreply@openai.com>
Elsewhen (omacom.elsewhen) arrives as the elsewhen package under
/usr/share/omarchy/plugins, the packaged root the shell scans between its
bundled plugins and the user's. It opens the right section of the default
bar, just before the tray, and a migration installs the package, writes the
widget into a customized shell.json in the same spot, and retires a pristine
pre-package clone of the upstream repo that the package now shadows.
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