Faster theme and bg changes

bin/omarchy-menu-images

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # omarchy:summary=Open a generic image selector menu
-# omarchy:args=[--selected <image>] [--print-name] [--show-labels] [--filterable] [--lazy-thumbnails] [--cache-only] <image-dir>...
+# omarchy:args=[--selected <image>] [--print-name] [--show-labels] [--filterable] [--lazy-thumbnails] [--preload] [--cache-only] <image-dir>...
 
 OMARCHY_PATH=${OMARCHY_PATH:-$HOME/.local/share/omarchy}
 
@@ -11,11 +11,12 @@ show_labels=false
 filterable=false
 lazy_thumbnails=false
 prepare_only=false
+preload=false
 cache_only=false
 image_dirs=()
 
 usage() {
-  echo "Usage: omarchy-menu-images [--selected <image>] [--print-name] [--show-labels] [--filterable] [--lazy-thumbnails] [--cache-only] <image-dir>..."
+  echo "Usage: omarchy-menu-images [--selected <image>] [--print-name] [--show-labels] [--filterable] [--lazy-thumbnails] [--preload] [--cache-only] <image-dir>..."
 }
 
 while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
@@ -49,6 +50,10 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
       prepare_only=true
       shift
       ;;
+    --preload)
+      preload=true
+      shift
+      ;;
     --cache-only)
       cache_only=true
       shift
@@ -225,6 +230,11 @@ fi
 # ImagePicker plugin Qt.atob()s on the other side.
 rows_b64=$(printf '%s' "$rows" | base64 -w 0)
 
+if [[ $preload == true ]]; then
+  omarchy-shell-ipc image-selector preload "$rows_b64" "$selected_list_image" "$show_labels" "$filterable" >/dev/null || true
+  exit 0
+fi
+
 send_builtin_ipc_request() {
   perl -MCwd=abs_path -MEncode=encode,decode -MSocket \
     -e '