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* Give scratchpad a Quake-style presentation
* Keep the Quake scratchpad from restyling every window
The presentation was bought with global decoration defaults: rounding went
0 -> 5 and both shadow and blur were switched back on for every window on
the system, undoing 935283c8. Blur in particular is close to invisible
here, since every window is already tagged 0.985/0.96 opacity and no layer
rule asks for it, so it was GPU load on every frame for almost nothing.
Put the globals back and scope the rounding to the scratchpad with a window
rule, the same way popped windows already get theirs. The inset, dim_special
and the slide carry the effect on their own. dim_special only applies while
a special workspace is open, so it stays.
Also drop the four workspace-rule booleans that only restated Hyprland's
defaults, fold the stale scratchpad rows in the hotkey table into the new
ones, and give the binding assertions their own fixture instead of borrowing
the bar-panel one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Omabot <david@hey.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigation
Everything in Omarchy happens via the keyboard — EVERYTHING! When the system first starts, you literally can't do a thing with the mouse alone. But you can hit Super + Space to reveal the Omarchy Menu and from here you to do just about everything.
But the Omarchy menu is not even intended to be the main way to operate the system most of the time. We can get faster than that! All the most important applications are bound directly to individual hotkeys. You start the terminal with Super + Return and a browser with Super + Shift + Return. Try doing one after the other, and you'll see the magic of Hyprland's tiling in action:
You can then hit Super + J to stack them on top of each other instead of side by side:
Hit Super + J again to return them to their side-by-side positions. Then try Super + Shift + Arrow Right while on the browser to swap the windows.
Now try Super + Ctrl + T to start the Activity monitor. That'll appears as a floating window. You can tile it using Super + T (and hit that again to make it floating again). Now press Super + Shift + F to open the files manager. You'll have a neat four-way setup:
You navigate between the window you want to be active with Super + Arrow. This will switch focus and move the cursor to the center of the new application.
If you hit Super + Shift + 2, you'll move the current focused application onto the second workspace. Super + Shift + 1 moves it back. (And Super + Shift + Alt + 2 will move the current focused application onto the second workspace without switching to it).
If you hold down Super and use the mouse to click on a window, you'll be able to rearrange where it sits. If you hold Super and use the right button on the mouse, you can freely resize the window.
You close a window on Super + W (and close all windows on Ctrl + Alt + Delete).
You can also go full screen with Super + F or even just full-width (keeping the top bar) with Super + Alt + F or full-screen within a window with Super + Ctrl + F (good for YouTube!).
Dwindle vs scrolling layout
Omarchy's default layout is called dwindle. It keeps all the windows you open on a single workspace visible at all time, even if it has to shrink them down.
But you can also choose to turn a workspace into the scrolling layout where windows are lined up side-by-side, beyond the visible edge of the display. You turn a single workspace into this layout via Super + L.
The choice is per workspace, and it sticks. So you can keep workspace 1 on dwindle for browsing and workspace 2 on scrolling for code, and they'll come back that way after a restart. (The same toggle is under Trigger > Toggle > Workspace Layout in the Omarchy menu).
If you wish to use the scrolling layout as the default, you can set that in ~/.config/hypr/looknfeel.lua:
hl.config({
general = {
layout = "scrolling",
},
})
Grouping windows
Windows can be grouped using Super + G. Once you're in a group, every window you start while that's active will belong to the group. You can move between these grouped windows using Super + Ctrl + Arrow Left/Right or Super + Alt + 1/2/3/4 to go directly to grouped window in order.
You can move a window out of the grouping with Super + Alt + G or disassemble the entire group by hitting Super + G again. Finally, you can move windows outside the group into it with Super + Alt + Arrows.
Popping windows
You can pop a window out of its workspace allocation with Super + O. That'll pin it as a floating window that follows you on whatever workspace you go to. Great for video players and the like.
Scratchpad workspace
Finally, there's a special scratchpad workspace that drops down over whatever workspace you're currently on, much like a Quake console. Toggle it with Super + Grave or Super + S, and place a window there using Super + Shift + Grave or Super + Alt + S.
It works especially well for a terminal running an agent, or for controls you want to interact with quickly without leaving the current workspace. To move a window off the scratchpad, send it directly to another workspace with something like Super + Shift + 1.
It takes some getting used to!
It takes a little while to get used to navigating your desktop like this, but once you do, it'll be hard to go back to a traditional mouse-driven desktop experience!