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# First-party plugins
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These plugins ship with Omarchy and are loaded by the shell at startup.
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They use the same `manifest.json` contract as third-party plugins; the
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only difference is that the shell flags them with `__isFirstParty: true`
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so they cannot be disabled.
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User-installed plugins live alongside these conceptually but on disk under
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`~/.config/omarchy/plugins/<plugin-id>/` rather than in this directory.
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| Plugin | id | kinds | activation | entry point |
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|------------------|--------------------------|--------------|-------------|----------------------------------------------|
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| Bar | `omarchy.bar` | `bar` | persistent | `bar/Bar.qml` |
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| Bar settings | `omarchy.bar-settings` | `panel` | on-demand | `bar-settings/BarSettingsPanel.qml` |
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| Image picker | `omarchy.image-picker` | `overlay` | on-demand | `image-picker/ImagePicker.qml` |
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## Bar
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The status bar. Mounted at startup, lives forever. Layout lives in the
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top-level `bar:` subtree of `~/.config/omarchy/shell.json` (with the shell
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providing [`shell-defaults.json`](../shell-defaults.json) when the user has
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no file). Owns the `bar` IPC target for refresh hooks fired by indicator
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scripts. See [`bar/README.md`](bar/README.md) for the widget catalogue
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and customization schema.
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## Bar settings
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Visual editor for the entire shell config. Summoned by
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`omarchy-shell-ipc shell summon omarchy.bar-settings "{}"` (which is what
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`omarchy launch bar-settings` ultimately calls). Provides:
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- per-section add/move/remove/edit of bar widget entries
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- a separate "Other plugins" section for panels, overlays, services,
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and menus (entries that live in `plugins[]` rather than the bar layout)
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- a Plugin Manager tab listing every discovered plugin with its manifest
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- a dynamic settings form driven by each widget's manifest schema, that
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writes inline back to the corresponding shell.json entry
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## Image picker
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Fullscreen image-grid selector overlay. Used by `omarchy-menu-images`
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(wallpaper picker) and `omarchy-theme-switcher` (theme picker) and any
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other caller that wants to present a directory of images with previews.
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Two ways to drive it:
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- Shell-level summon: `omarchy-shell-ipc shell summon omarchy.image-picker '<jsonPayload>'`.
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The payload can carry `imageDirs`, `imageRows`, `selectedImage`,
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`selectionFile`, `doneFile`, `colorsFile`, `colorsRaw`, `showLabels`,
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`filterable`. Best for in-shell callers that already speak JSON.
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- Direct IPC target: `omarchy-shell-ipc image-selector open <imageDirs> <imageRowsB64> <selectedImage> <selectionFile> <doneFile> <colorsFile> <colorsRawB64> <showLabels> <filterable>`.
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Positional args; `imageRowsB64` and `colorsRawB64` are base64-encoded so
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embedded newlines / tabs survive the bash argv handoff. This is what
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`omarchy-menu-images` uses.
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The selection round-trip remains file-based: callers create a
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`selection_file` and `done_file` (both `mktemp`), pass the paths, and
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poll `done_file` for existence. The plugin writes the chosen path into
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`selection_file` and touches `done_file` when it's done. `cancel` IPC
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clears it without writing a selection.
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The plugin has `keepLoaded: true` so the layer-shell window survives
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between summons within a single shell session.
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## Coming soon
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- `omarchy.menu` — folds the existing `omarchy-menu` (currently on another
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branch) into the shell as a `menu` plugin. Not present on this branch.
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- `omarchy.theme-switcher` — folds theme switching into the shell.
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