David Heinemeier Hansson
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Five plugins (menu, launcher, clipboard, emojis, polkit) each looked up OMARCHY_MENU_FONT with the same env-or-monospace fallback. Hoist the resolution into Style so plugins read one source of truth, and so the fallback follows the real fontconfig family Style already tracks instead of the literal string "monospace".
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
so they are always enabled. 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 |
| Bar settings | omarchy.settings |
panel |
settings/SettingsPanel.qml |
| Launcher | omarchy.launcher |
overlay |
launcher/Launcher.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 |
| Omarchy menu | omarchy.menu |
menu |
menu/Menu.qml |
| Notifications | omarchy.notifications |
service |
notifications/Service.qml |
| Battery | omarchy.battery |
service |
services/battery/Service.qml |
| Idle | omarchy.idle |
service |
services/idle/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 |
Bar
The status bar. Mounted at startup, lives forever. Layout lives in the
top-level bar: subtree of ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json (with the shell
providing shell-defaults.json when the user has
no file). See bar/README.md for the widget catalogue
and customization schema.
Bar settings
Visual editor for the bar layout. Summoned by
omarchy-shell shell summon omarchy.settings "{}" (which is what
omarchy launch bar settings ultimately calls). Provides:
- bar position and center-anchor controls
- per-section add/move/remove/edit of bar widget entries
- dynamic per-widget settings forms that write inline back to the corresponding shell.json entry
Launcher
Quickshell-powered launcher. It uses Quickshell's native
DesktopEntries model for discovery/activation and renders inside the
long-running shell with the legacy launcher card dimensions, colors, row
spacing, icon sizing, and keyboard behavior. Summoned directly over shell IPC
by the SUPER + SPACE binding and the Omarchy menu Apps row.
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.
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.