David Heinemeier HanssonandClaude Opus 5.5
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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.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Omarchy shell
The Omarchy desktop runs in one long-lived Quickshell process. Its bar, panels, overlays, menus, and services are plugins hosted by shell.qml.
- Shell reference — plugin manifests, IPC, configuration, and shared UI contracts.
- Plugin user guide — install, configure, and clone plugins.
- First-party plugins — bundled plugin IDs, kinds, and entry points.
- Shell development guide — conventions for changing the desktop.
- Theming reference — theme tokens, templates, and generated configuration.