David Heinemeier HanssonandClaude Opus 5.5
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* Step the volume in the shell instead of a script per keypress Each volume key ran omarchy-audio-output-volume: several pactl calls in bash, then omarchy-osd delivering the OSD over a qs IPC client, ~165ms from keypress to OSD, on keys that repeat while held. The volume up, down and mute keys now dispatch global shortcuts that the media service handles over PipeWire, stepping, clamping, unmuting and debouncing by the script's rules and showing the same OSD. It acts only when the default sink is an ALSA sink, which is its own physical sink. Any other default, a DSP chain or EasyEffects above all, falls back to the script, which resolves the physical sink from the live routing on every press. The precise +1/-1 keys still run the script. Keypress to OSD drops from ~168ms to ~20ms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Run media and notification keys in the shell without an IPC client The media keys and the notification dismiss, invoke and history keys ran omarchy-shell, starting a qs client for one argument-free IPC call. A new ipc shortcut kind names such a call as target.method. The shell hands it to the service that owns the target, which runs its own IpcHandler function, so the key behaves exactly as the omarchy-shell call did. A call missing from the list binds through omarchy-shell. Dismissing a notification with SUPER+comma clears the popup in ~11ms instead of ~40ms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First-party plugins
These plugins ship with Omarchy and are discovered by the shell at startup.
They use the same manifest.json contract as third-party plugins; the
only difference is that the shell flags them with __isFirstParty: true.
First-party non-bar plugins are enabled unless listed in disabledPlugins[];
omarchy.bar is the default bar option and becomes inactive only while another
kind: "bar" plugin is selected. Services and keep-loaded panels are mounted
at startup; other panels, overlays, and menus are loaded on demand.
User-installed plugins live alongside these conceptually but on disk under
~/.config/omarchy/plugins/<plugin-id>/ rather than in this directory.
| Plugin | id | kinds | entry point |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bar | omarchy.bar |
bar |
bar/Bar.qml |
| Image picker | omarchy.image-picker |
overlay |
image-picker/ImagePicker.qml |
| Emojis | omarchy.emojis |
overlay |
emojis/Emojis.qml |
| Clipboard mgr | omarchy.clipboard |
overlay |
clipboard/Clipboard.qml |
| Reminders | omarchy.reminders |
overlay |
reminders/ReminderFlow.qml |
| Omarchy menu | omarchy.menu |
menu, bar-widget |
menu/Menu.qml, menu/BarWidget.qml |
| Notifications | omarchy.notifications |
service |
notifications/Service.qml |
| Audio | omarchy.audio |
bar-widget |
panels/audio/Panel.qml |
| Bluetooth | omarchy.bluetooth |
bar-widget |
panels/bluetooth/Panel.qml |
| Clock | omarchy.clock |
bar-widget |
panels/clock/BarWidget.qml |
| Monitor | omarchy.monitor |
bar-widget |
panels/monitor/Panel.qml |
| Network | omarchy.network |
bar-widget |
panels/network/Panel.qml |
| Power | omarchy.power |
bar-widget |
panels/power/Panel.qml |
| Tailscale | omarchy.tailscale |
bar-widget |
panels/tailscale/Panel.qml |
| Agents | omarchy.agents |
bar-widget |
agents/Panel.qml |
| Weather | omarchy.weather |
bar-widget |
panels/weather/BarWidget.qml |
| Media | omarchy.media |
service, bar-widget |
services/media/Service.qml, services/media/BarWidget.qml |
| Battery | omarchy.battery |
service |
services/battery/Service.qml |
| Idle | omarchy.idle |
service |
services/idle/Service.qml |
| Night light | omarchy.nightlight |
service |
services/nightlight/Service.qml |
| Lock screen | omarchy.lock |
service |
lock/Service.qml |
| OSD | omarchy.osd |
panel |
osd/Osd.qml |
| Polkit agent | omarchy.polkit |
service |
polkit/PolkitAgent.qml |
First-party bar-only widgets also carry manifests next to their QML files,
e.g. bar/widgets/Workspaces.manifest.json. Rich popup widgets live in their
own plugin directories, each with its own manifest.json.
Bar
The built-in status bar and default full-bar option. Layout lives in the
top-level bar: subtree of ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json (with the shell
providing config/omarchy/shell.json when
the user has no file). See bar/README.md for the widget catalogue
and customization schema.
Image picker
Fullscreen image-grid selector overlay. Used by omarchy-menu-images
(wallpaper picker) and omarchy-theme-switcher (theme picker) and any
other caller that wants to present a directory of images with previews.
Two ways to drive it:
- Shell-level summon:
omarchy-shell shell summon omarchy.image-picker '<jsonPayload>'. The payload can carryimageDirs,imageRows,selectedImage,selectionFile,doneFile,showLabels,filterable. Best for in-shell callers that already speak JSON. - Direct IPC target:
omarchy-shell image-selector open <imageDirs> <imageRowsB64> <selectedImage> <selectionFile> <doneFile> <showLabels> <filterable>. Positional args;imageRowsB64is base64-encoded so embedded newlines / tabs survive the bash argv handoff. This is whatomarchy-menu-imagesuses. Colors come from the central shell theme singleton; there is no per-call override surface.
The selection round-trip remains file-based: callers create a
selection_file and done_file (both mktemp), pass the paths, and
poll done_file for existence. The plugin writes the chosen path into
selection_file and touches done_file when it's done. cancel IPC
clears it without writing a selection.
The plugin has keepLoaded: true so the layer-shell window survives
between summons within a single shell session.
Lock screen
Session-lock surface using Quickshell's native WlSessionLock and two
separate PAM services: omarchy-lock-password for password auth and,
only when fingerprints are enrolled, omarchy-lock-fingerprint for
fingerprint auth. It mirrors the previous lock screen field dimensions,
colors, blurred wallpaper, placeholder, and Hyprland-driven corners.
The plugin sets keepLoaded: true so a plugin hot-reload (for example
an installed bar widget changing on disk) does not destroy the lock
client while Hyprland still holds the session lock.
Polkit agent
Theme-aware authentication dialog for privileged actions. It uses
Quickshell's native Quickshell.Services.Polkit.PolkitAgent backend and
runs inside the long-lived omarchy-shell process, replacing the old
polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 autostart.
Omarchy menu
Quickshell-powered Omarchy command menu.
The menu UI lives in menu/Menu.qml as a first-party menu plugin and is
summoned through the shell (omarchy-shell shell summon omarchy.menu ...),
so it shares the long-running omarchy-shell process instead of starting a
second Quickshell instance.
The menu definition lives outside the shell host code:
- defaults:
default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc - user extensions:
~/.config/omarchy/extensions/omarchy-menu.jsonc
The shell parses both JSONC files at startup (with watchChanges: true
so edits take effect without a restart), evaluates when: / checked:
bash expressions in a single batched subprocess, and executes the
selected action: string directly via Quickshell.execDetached. The
long-running shell process keeps the parsed menu in memory, so the
keybind → IPC → visible path costs ~30ms cold.
Coming soon
omarchy.theme-switcher— folds theme switching into the shell.