TEMPORARY: while the omarchy-4 stack is being iterated, the production
edge/stable/rc channels at pkgs.omarchy.org/<ring>/x86_64 don't have the
new omarchy and omarchy-settings packages — only omarchy-keyring and
omarchy-nvim are published. The work-in-progress packages live in the
dev repo at share.heyoodle.com/omarchy/dev/<arch> via
omarchy-pkgs/bin/publish-dev-repo.
To stop hand-editing pacman.conf after every run of this script,
configure_pacman_channel() now emits a [omarchy-dev] block right above
[omarchy] with SigLevel = Never and the share.heyoodle URL. Pacman
honors repo declaration order, so dev packages take precedence when
both ring publish them.
The awk also dedupes any pre-existing [omarchy-dev] block (so rerunning
the script doesn't pile up duplicate entries) and falls back to
appending both blocks at the end if no [omarchy] section was present.
Revert this block once the production rings have caught up.
omarchy-limine no longer exists as a separate package — it was folded
into omarchy-settings (configs) and omarchy (bootloader stack hard dep).
Listing it in install_omarchy_4_packages's pacman -Syu invocation
produced 'error: target not found: omarchy-limine' on every run.
Also fix the now-stale 'shipped by omarchy-settings / omarchy-limine'
comment in the retire-action header (line 1119) — the files come from
omarchy-settings alone now.
The bootloader stack (limine, limine-mkinitcpio-hook, limine-snapper-sync,
snapper) is hard-depended by the omarchy package, so dropping
omarchy-limine from the explicit list doesn't change what gets installed
on a real upgrade.
Reorganizes Omarchy 4 around three layers for populating $HOME:
Seed: omarchy-settings ships defaults to /etc/skel; useradd -m
copies them on user creation
Finalize: omarchy-finalize-user (renamed from omarchy-setup-user)
handles only the runtime tweaks /etc/skel can't do — skill
symlinks, xdg-user-dirs, default browser/mailto, vconsole→hypr
keyboard sync, and install/user/all.sh
Resync: omarchy-reinstall-configs is the explicit, destructive
resync of /etc/skel into an existing user's $HOME
Package-owned files move out of config/ into default/, where the
omarchy-settings PKGBUILD installs them to real system paths:
config/environment.d/fcitx.conf -> /usr/lib/environment.d/
config/fontconfig/fonts.conf -> /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/
config/mimeapps.list -> /usr/share/applications/
config/omarchy.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/omarchy/
config/systemd/user/*.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/
config/uwsm/default -> /usr/share/omarchy/default/uwsm/
config/uwsm/env -> /usr/share/uwsm/env.d/10-omarchy
config/xdg-terminals.list -> /usr/share/xdg-terminal-exec/
omarchy-upgrade-to-4 grows a 'retire' action (renamed from 'move' to
clarify nothing is copied — the system path is owned by the new package
once the user's hash-matched ~/.config copy is removed). Mismatched
copies are kept as backups so user overrides survive the upgrade.
Other simplifications:
- Single env bootstrap at default/bash/env-bootstrap sourced by
/etc/profile.d/omarchy.sh, /etc/skel/.bashrc,
/usr/share/uwsm/env.d/10-omarchy, and default/bash/envs. PATH
prepend only in dev-link mode (production uses /usr/bin/omarchy-*).
- omarchy-refresh-config reads from /etc/skel/.config so refresh
means 'snap to skel'.
- omarchy-reinstall-configs collapses to 'cp -af /etc/skel/. ~/'
plus limine/plymouth/nvim refresh.
- omarchy-font-set uses awk against our own 30-omarchy.conf instead
of xmlstarlet; xmlstarlet dropped from omarchy-base.packages.
- Defer user systemd enables (bt-agent, sleep-lock,
recover-internal-monitor) to first-run via
install/user/first-run/enable-user-units.sh; delete
omarchy-user-systemctl-enable and the per-hardware install
scripts that called it.
- Wireplumber bluetooth-a2dp-autoconnect.conf moves to config/ so
/etc/skel ships it; install/user/hardware/bluetooth.sh deleted.
- Default terminal switched to foot.desktop.
- docs/file-layout.md documents the three-layer model and the
build-time repo→path map.
Introduce a self-contained omarchy-upgrade-to-4 command for legacy installs and remove the 4.0 package-layout transition from the normal migration runner.
Remove legacy online installer entrypoints, collapse migrations for 4.0, and move setup responsibilities into target-side system, hardware, and user commands.
The orchestrator only runs on the live ISO, so it lives in omarchy-iso
where the rest of the ISO-specific code (configurator, .automated_script
.sh, archinstall pacman config) lives. omarchy-installer stays the
monorepo of Omarchy source content (configs, themes, default files,
install scripts) without a Python install driver mixed in.
bin/omarchy-install simplifies to a one-liner: it's the online entry
point now, no --config dispatcher. The orchestrator never invokes it;
it runs finalize.sh directly via arch-chroot.
Chunk 1 of the C3 refactor: replace the two-pass install model (archinstall
CLI + custom shell dance + chroot bash installer) with a single Python
orchestrator that owns phase ordering, using archinstall as a library
subsystem.
Splits the bash entry point into two:
- install.sh: online entry point. Ensures omarchy runtime + base.packages
are installed/up to date, then exec's finalize.sh.
- finalize.sh: the in-target portion (preflight + packaging + config +
login + post-install). Called by install.sh (online) AND by the
orchestrator after arch-chroot -u $USER (offline).
Adds the orchestrator skeleton under install/orchestrator/:
- main.py: entry point, builds + runs the phase list
- context.py: InstallContext (parsed configurator JSON + invocation paths)
- phases.py: phase state machine (logging + state.json + error wrapping)
- phases_impl.py: stubbed phase implementations (filled in by chunks 2-6)
- archinstall_adapter.py: thin compat wall around archinstall lib imports
(only this module imports from archinstall.*)
- ui.py: gum subprocess wrappers so the orchestrator keeps the same
styled-terminal UX as the bash installer
Updates bin/omarchy-install to dispatch:
- --config <json> in args → python -m orchestrator.main (ISO install)
- anything else → bash install.sh (online rerun on installed system)
Concrete phase logic lands in subsequent chunks. All phases currently
raise NotImplementedError; the orchestrator imports cleanly and --help
works as a smoke check.
The omarchy install runs inside an arch-chroot to /mnt, so its log file
(/var/log/omarchy-install.log from the installer's perspective) is at
/mnt/var/log/omarchy-install.log from the live ISO. The previous script
only read /var/log/omarchy-install.log, and 'cat $ARCHINSTALL_LOG
$OMARCHY_LOG 2>/dev/null' swallowed the resulting 'No such file' error,
so uploaded logs from the ISO contained only the archinstall portion.
Prefer the /mnt path when it exists (live ISO post-install), fall back
to /var/log when running on the installed system. Also print a visible
separator between the two log sections and warn on stderr if the omarchy
log is missing entirely (instead of silently producing an incomplete
upload).
The lua-based monitors config (~/.config/hypr/monitors.lua) ships from
skel with sensible defaults (omarchy_gdk_scale = 2, omarchy_monitor_scale
= "auto"). Hyprland handles the dynamic monitor scale at runtime via
"auto"; 'omarchy hyprland monitor scaling <N>' already updates both
omarchy_monitor_scale and omarchy_gdk_scale in monitors.lua when the
user wants to adjust.
The first-run 'detect what hyprland picked and write it back' dance
was leftover from the .conf-based config; it's redundant on the lua
flow and was the script that aborted omarchy-first-run under set -e
when it sed'd a missing monitors.conf.
Two bugs caused fresh users to land without branding files / AI skill
symlinks / nautilus extensions / xdg dirs / etc.:
1. install/first-run/gdk-scale.sh sed-edited ~/.config/hypr/monitors.conf,
but the lua-based config flow uses ~/.config/hypr/monitors.lua. sed -i
on the missing .conf returned non-zero, set -e fired, omarchy-first-run
aborted mid-block AFTER deleting ~/.local/state/omarchy/first-run.mode.
omarchy-setup-user (called at the bottom of the script, outside the
if-block) never ran, so setup-user.done never got written and the
per-user defaults (~/.config/omarchy/branding/*, ~/.agents/skills/omarchy,
xdg dirs, etc.) never got created.
Replace the .conf sed with a call to omarchy-hyprland-monitor-scaling
which already knows how to persist into monitors.lua.
2. Move 'omarchy-setup-user || true' to the TOP of omarchy-first-run, before
the privileged first-run block. setup-user is idempotent and gated on
its own marker, so running it first is safe and means a failure in any
of the privileged steps can't prevent user setup from completing.
The edge mirror temporarily lacked a current 1password build (315e60d
hadn't been rebuilt), so install/omarchy-base.packages was pointing at
1password-beta as a workaround. Reverting now that the stable package
is available, and matching the entry in omarchy-remove-preinstalls so
that bin actually drops the package we installed.
fonts.sh: obsolete. omarchy-settings installs omarchy.ttf to
/usr/share/fonts/omarchy/ system-wide and the fontconfig package's
post-install hook updates the cache, so copying it to ~/.local/share/
fonts and re-running fc-cache is redundant. The script was also failing
because omarchy-settings explicitly removes the source path
/usr/share/omarchy/config/omarchy.ttf during package install.
omarchy-setup-lock: the final line was 'omarchy-shell lock status
>/dev/null && echo "..."' which inherits the failed exit code when
omarchy-shell can't reach a running shell (always the case during chroot
install). set -e exempts cmd1 of && from triggering, but the script
still returns that non-zero as its own exit code, which the install
wrapper treated as a script failure. Wrap in an if/then so a failed
status check doesn't poison the script's exit code.
0x0.st has been intermittently down. logs.omarchy.org accepts the same
curl -F 'file=@-' POST and returns the resulting URL in the response
body, so the swap is purely the endpoint. Dropping the -Fexpires=24
parameter since logs.omarchy.org doesn't honour it (and doesn't expire
uploads by default).
User-level files (~/.config, ~/.local/share, ~/.agents, etc.) shouldn't
be written by install.sh — it runs as root or with system-level sudo,
and in offline (ISO chroot) mode the user doesn't exist yet. Moved into
a per-user idempotent command, called from omarchy-first-run.
Moved into bin/omarchy-setup-user (deleted from install/config/):
- omarchy-ai-skill.sh AI skill symlinks
- omarchy-toggles.sh hypr toggle flags
- nautilus-python.sh nautilus extensions
- branding.sh ~/.config/omarchy/branding/{about,screensaver}.txt
- user-dirs.sh xdg-user-dirs-update + gtk bookmarks
- detect-keyboard-layout.sh layout/variant sed into ~/.config/hypr/input.lua
- toggles.sh ~/.local/state/omarchy/toggles mkdir
- mimetypes.sh omarchy-refresh-applications + xdg-mime/xdg-settings
Kept in install/config/ (rely on OMARCHY_USER_NAME / OMARCHY_USER_EMAIL
that only exist during install):
- git.sh git config --global user.{name,email}
- xcompose.sh ~/.XCompose with name/email substituted
omarchy-setup-user:
- Refuses to run as root
- Idempotent via ~/.local/state/omarchy/setup-user.done marker
- --force escape hatch for re-running after dev-link or upstream changes
- Defaults OMARCHY_PATH to /usr/share/omarchy so it works outside install
bin/omarchy-first-run now invokes omarchy-setup-user unconditionally
(it self-gates), so first user login picks up the user setup.
install/config/all.sh: dropped the eight deleted entries.
All three packages (omarchy, omarchy-settings, omarchy-installer) still
build clean.
Brings back the omarchy-install command as a 5-line shell wrapper that
just exec's /usr/share/omarchy/install.sh. Not the 258-line Python
refactor-poc version — that one stays dropped.
The omarchy package keeps excluding bin/omarchy-install exactly so it
doesn't conflict with the omarchy-installer package's copy at /usr/bin.
All 25+ user-facing omarchy-install-* commands (gaming, browser, etc.)
still ship via omarchy.
- install.sh: use realpath to follow symlinks when deriving OMARCHY_PATH
from script location. Logical pwd left dev-link symlink chains pointing
at the wrong dir; realpath resolves to the underlying checkout.
- install/helpers/mode.sh: validate explicit OMARCHY_INSTALL_MODE values
and exit on typos. Also export_legacy_mode_flags now UNSETS the
contradictory legacy flag for each mode so unmigrated callers can't
see both OMARCHY_CHROOT_INSTALL=1 and OMARCHY_ONLINE_INSTALL=true.
- install/helpers/errors.sh: retry uses "$OMARCHY_PATH/install.sh"
and preserves OMARCHY_INSTALL_MODE explicitly; the previous hardcoded
~/.local/share/omarchy/install.sh broke package-mode retries.
- bin/omarchy-install-mode: soften the summary; the helper only knows
the current env, not any persisted post-install state.
Three modes the installer now branches on:
iso-chroot Running inside the new system's chroot from the ISO build.
pacman is configured by archinstall; systemd isn't running,
so service enables skip --now.
online-package Running on an existing Arch where the omarchy-* packages
are already installed. Skip base.sh and the bootstrap
preflight steps; only the per-host runtime ops in
config/login/post-install need to run.
online-git boot.sh path: clone into $HOME/.local/share/omarchy and
bootstrap everything from scratch.
install.sh derives OMARCHY_PATH from its own location, so the same script
works whether it's at /usr/share/omarchy/install.sh (package mode) or
$HOME/.local/share/omarchy/install.sh (git mode). install_mode_is helper
replaces direct ${OMARCHY_CHROOT_INSTALL:-} / ${OMARCHY_ONLINE_INSTALL:-}
checks in chroot.sh, finished.sh, errors.sh, mise-work.sh, preflight/pacman.sh.
Legacy vars still work through export_legacy_mode_flags, which sets
OMARCHY_CHROOT_INSTALL=1 / OMARCHY_ONLINE_INSTALL=true based on the
canonical mode for any caller that hasn't been updated.
bin/omarchy-install-mode prints the current mode for scripts/users that
need to introspect.
Smoke-tested all four entry paths (explicit mode, both legacy shims,
auto-detection from OMARCHY_PATH); each resolves correctly and the
legacy flags are exported in matching modes.
Ryan Hughes