v4.0.0

The Quattro Release

Omarchy 4 aka Quattro is the biggest release since the project started. The entire desktop shell has been reimagined in Quickshell: the bar, launcher, menus, notifications, on-screen displays, control panels, lock screen, and polkit agent now all live inside a single long-running shell process with a plugin architecture. That means Waybar, Walker, Mako, SwayOSD, hyprlock, hypridle, swaybg, and polkit-gnome are all gone, replaced by one coherent, fully-themed, IPC-scriptable shell.

You can upgrade an existing Omarchy installation to Quattro by first Update > Omarchy, then Update > Omarchy to Quattro.

Install on new machines with the ISO:

• Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-4.0.0.iso
• SHA256: 9224fab3720560f771969a99a499e5f7e0f8e2d6a0681d872d52f05fb5003da4

Always take a backup of important data!

Watch the full introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fe9pa8OeE

Headline Features

• Reimagine the entire desktop shell in Quickshell.
• Move Omarchy internals from git to system packages for safely separating user modifications.
• Offer dual-boot installation when free space is available (remember to turn off Bitlocker for Windows!).
• Setup a machine for a new owner during install, so OEMs and gift givers can prepare a machine for others.
• Allow for factory reset (Setup > Reset Computer) from new Quattro installs for safe resale/gifting of your machine.
• Shrink the ISO by over a gigabyte (now under 6GB!).
• Speed-up installation by +30% (sub-minute installs now possible!).
• Convert all Hyprland configs to lua for full 0.56 compatibility.
• Expand theme coloring from base 8 to 24 so btop/nvim/vscode themes can be autogenerated.
• Use networkmanager for new network panel for greater compatibility.
• Add nested search to Omarchy menu and merge the launcher into that one unified menu (Super + Space).
• Add text scaling across the shell, GTK, and terminals in one move via the Display panel.
• Add speaker tunings for 2026 XPS 14/16 laptops for dramatically better sound.
• Add menu bar repositioning (top/bottom/left/right) and transparency.
• Add menu bar panels for Tailscale + Dropbox.
• Add weather panel with configurable location.
• Add plugin system and full ecosystem.
• Add Omawrite, Omacut, and Omacalc as default applications.
• Add a configurable default coding agent with instant launch shortcuts and crash diagnosis.
• Add Solitude, Last Horizon, and Lupine as new themes.
• Add window position saving per workspace for quick layout restoring.
• Add much-improved clamshell operations for laptops used with external monitors.

The Shell

• Rewrite the entire desktop shell in Quickshell — bar, launcher, menus, notifications, OSDs, panels, lock screen, and polkit agent as plugins in one process by @dhh and @ryanrhughes
• Add a new modular bar with interactive widgets: workspaces, active window, clock (click for ISO week format), weather, media (MPRIS), system tray, battery, keyboard layout, microphone, update indicator, and manual-state indicators (DND, night light, stay awake, screen recording, dictation, reminders)
• Move the bar by dragging it to any screen edge — a ghost slab previews the target edge while you drag — and double-click empty bar space to toggle transparency (you can also set this via Setup > Menu Bar in the Omarchy menu)
• Add a bar plugin system: third-party widgets and even whole replacement bars installed straight from git with omarchy plugin add <git-url>, and managed from Setup > Plugins (add, clone, enable, disable, remove) by @ryanrhughes and @dhh
• Add a native launcher with fuzzy/acronym matching, live app icon indexing, and hidden-entry management — now merged into the Omarchy menu itself, so SUPER + SPACE searches apps and commands from one surface
• Add a dedicated apps-only menu on SUPER + ALT + SPACE
• Add a native notification daemon with popups, do-not-disturb, deduping, and a replayable history: SUPER + SHIFT + ALT + , brings back the last ten notifications exactly as they were shown, including the ones do-not-disturb silenced — and popups on screen survive shell restarts (like the one every update performs), so critical alerts always make it across by @ryanrhughes and @dhh
• Dismiss notification popups with a right-click by @taxin-404
• Add a native clipboard manager with image previews and sensitive-content exclusion (SUPER + CTRL + V)
• Add a native emoji picker (SUPER + CTRL + E) replacing Walker picker
• Add native volume/brightness/media OSDs replacing swayosd
• Add control panels for Audio (SUPER + CTRL + A), Bluetooth (SUPER + CTRL + B), Network (SUPER + CTRL + W), Display (SUPER + CTRL + D), and Power (SUPER + CTRL + P) replacing bluetui, impala by @dhh and @ryanrhughes
• Add optional service widgets with full panels for Tailscale (connection control, exit-node picker with Mullvad nodes grouped by country) and Dropbox (login, storage, recent files) by @ryanrhughes and @dhh
• Add a model-usage bar widget showing Claude Code/Codex/Fireworks usage stats and count from all the major harnesses by @ryanrhughes + @dhh
• Add a Google Meet picture-in-picture widget by @ryanrhughes
• Offer 12-hour AM/PM clock formats when right-clicking the bar clock by @scottjones
• Add a battery percentage readout toggle to the power widget on right-click
• Replace hyprlock with shell-powered password and fingerprint PAM flows, and invite you to enroll a finger on first run when a reader is present — with fingerprint offers on the lock screen, polkit, and sudo gated by lid state
• Move the Omarchy menu into the shell as a filterable, nested command palette defined in JSONC (extensible via ~/.config/omarchy/extensions/omarchy-menu.jsonc) by @ryanrhughes and @dhh
• Make the shell event-driven rather than polled: status indicators, monitor and network state, and the background all react to signals now, so an idle desktop stops burning CPU
• Expose the battery percentage toggle in the Omarchy menu by @bwynnyck
• Open the bar's right-side panels with SUPER + CTRL + 1 through 9, counted left to right — rearranging the section or adding a widget renumbers them with no binding to rewrite by @dhh
• Ship the keyboard layout widget on the bar by default: hidden while only one layout is configured, click to cycle, and labeled with the xkb language code (EN, PT, AR) instead of a truncated description by @dhh and @defer
• Add the Discord community and Herdr's keybindings viewer to the Learn menu by @dhh

Theming & Aesthetics

• Add a visual theme switcher: a filterable carousel of live theme previews (SUPER + SHIFT + CTRL + SPACE) by @dhh
• Add a visual background switcher in the same style (SUPER + CTRL + SPACE) by @dhh
• Add a semantic theme color system with normalized color names by @bjarneo
• Add generation of neovim, VS Code, and btop configs straight from a theme's expanded colorset, so themes carry fewer hand-maintained files by @bjarneo, @ryanrhughes
• Add Last Horizon and Solitude themes by @HANCORE-linux
• Add Lupine theme by @bjarneo
• Add ~/.config/omarchy/shell.toml as a machine-level override merged over the active theme, so a personal font, spacing, or bar tweak survives theme switching — and it's watched, so edits re-flow the shell live
• Bring back the classic Omakub background in Tokyo Night for early-Linux-adoption nostalgia
• Add a Quattro background by @vulturetone plus a new winding-road launch background for Tokyo Night, and retire the backgrounds no longer worth shipping
• Add a Pi theme based on the system theme by @ryanrhughes
• Sync the active Omarchy theme to Claude Code by @MoizIbnYousaf
• Add integrated corner controls (rounded/sharp) applied across Hyprland, notifications, lock screen, and menus by @ryanrhughes and @dhh
• Add omarchy display text size: one knob, 9–20px, that moves the shell font, GTK's text-scaling-factor, and the terminal point size in lockstep, with a notched slider in the display panel

Apps & Defaults

• Add Omawrite, a dead-simple Markdown writing app, as the default writing tool replacing Typora (SUPER + SHIFT + W) by @dhh
• Add Omacut, a dead-simple video length trimmer built on ffmpeg by @dhh
• Add Omacalc, a dead-simple calculator replacing GNOME Calculator (SUPER + CTRL + Q) by @dhh
• Add a configurable default coding agent: pick Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Oh My Pi, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, or Crush under Setup > Defaults > Agent, then launch it with SUPER + SHIFT + CTRL + A or the a terminal alias — lazy-installed on first use, opened as its own org.omarchy.agent app, and started in ~/Work when summoned from home so trust actually sticks by @dhh
• Switch the default terminal to Foot for better resource utilization by @dhh
• Add a yt-dlp-powered "Download Video" Chromium extension (on any URL with a video press Alt + Shift + D) by @dhh
• Switch the default image annotator from Satty to Tensaku by @ryanrhughes
• Add Moonlight client for Sunshine game/desktop streaming as new default by @dhh
• Add automounting of removable drives via udiskie by @ryanrhughes
• Add mpv MPRIS support so media keys control mpv by @berenddeboer
• Use dua for disk usage by @crmne and @dhh
• Make WhatsApp Web follow the system light/dark theme, and collapse it to a Signal-style avatar rail in slim windows by @scottjones and @dhh
• Move Signal, Spotify, and 1Password to on-demand installs and remove Figma + GitHub from the defaults by @dhh
• Switch to the lighter basic JetBrains Mono Nerd font to save 200mb on install by @dhh
• Install ChatGPT as a real desktop app under Install > AI, dropping the web app from...

v3.8.4

Omarchy 3.8.4

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Install on new machines with the ISO:

Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-3.8.4.iso
SHA256: 7bc1dc7d98f3d088e57dc06581a494ea441fb15f3edd191360fd1696931bd895

Fixes

• Fix Neovim theme symlink pointing at the Omarchy 4 theme location by @dhh
• Fix Install > Gaming > Retroarch installer by @dhh
• Fix Foot bindings migration by @dhh
• Fix waybar not restarting correctly by @dhh

Full Changelog: v3.8.3...v3.8.4

v3.8.3

Omarchy 3.8.3

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Install on new machines with the ISO:

Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-3.8.3.iso
SHA256: 40c9368eeb7e021a13d0899b379517843b4839f6e7721473169369fbd0fe61ac

Additions

• Add easier tmux pane controls with Alt+Enter / Alt+Shift+Enter / Alt+Escape splits, plus CSI-u Shift+Return encoding across Alacritty, Foot, Ghostty, and Kitty so tmux can distinguish the bindings. Existing customized configs are migrated without duplicating pane bindings or Foot sections by @dhh
• Set tmux window titles, including the hostname, for better remote server identification in Hyprland groups and migrate the settings to existing configs by @dhh
• Add cy alias for running Codex with full local access by @dhh
• Add mup alias for updating mise without the release-age guard by @dhh
• Add gtk text scaling at 0.95 on the 2026 Dell XPS 13 DX13260 by @dhh

Fixes

• Fix the wrong keyboard layout at the LUKS prompt on Plymouth 26 by bundling /etc/vconsole.conf into the initramfs by @Zeus-Deus
• Fix missing Mesa Vulkan drivers on systems installed before vulkan.sh via a hardware-aware backfill migration by @sridhar-3009
• Fix power-profile udev rules failing on wakeup on USB-C-only laptops by dropping the fixed transient unit name by @DiegoMirner
• Fix missing sof-firmware audio across Intel SOF DSP platforms, including Arrow Lake, Meteor Lake, Wildcat Lake, and Panther Lake, and request a reboot when firmware is newly installed by @dhh
• Fix repeated fingerprint setup failing when libfprint-git is already installed by checking the exact installed package rather than its providers by @dhh
• Fix package removal migrations targeting absent package names when an installed package merely provides that name by @dhh

New Contributors

• @Zeus-Deus made their first contribution in #6183
• @sridhar-3009 made their first contribution in #6199
• @DiegoMirner made their first contribution in #6091

Full Changelog: v3.8.2...v3.8.3

v3.8.2

Omarchy 3.8.2

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Install on new machines with the ISO:

Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-3.8.2.iso
SHA256: dc3d096ed17f50cadc74d5f2fe1914b12e1ba6b69e84447225deaf1896a0820d

What's Changed

• Fix logs uploading by switching to Omarchy-owned log container by @ryanrhughes
• Fix compatibility with Hyprland 0.55 (but without converting configs to lua) @tuklu, @dhh
• Fix cases where boot could put you on the wrong channel by @ryanrhughes

New Contributors

• @tuklu made their first contribution in #5922

Full Changelog: v3.8.1...v3.8.2

v3.8.1

What changed?

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Fixes

• Hotfix to pin omarchy-reinstall-git to master branch to prevent accidental switch to dev by @ryanrhughes

v3.8.0

The Defaults Edition

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Install on new machines with the ISO:

• Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-3.8.0.iso
• SHA256: a9b271e8884dc123f0787e10cff3153dca7361cc6583edd1a3baa283a031f872

Features

• Add setting reminders via Super + Ctrl + R, seeing all the ones set via Super + Ctrl + Alt + R, and clearing all via Super + Ctrl + Shift + R. Everything also accessible via Trigger > Reminder by @dhh
• Add live weather in the waybar and as a notification on Super + Ctrl + Alt + W by @dhh
• Add Trigger > Transcode, Super + Ctrl + ., and omarchy transcode menu/CLI for video, audio, and gif transcoding by @dhh
• Add transcode option to right-click file menu in file manager by @28allday
• Add Amiga, C64, and Amstrad cores to the default RetroArch setup by @dhh
• Add ~/.config/omarchy/hooks/post-update.d/my.hook directory-style hooks instead of a single file (easier for extensions to drop files than munge a single config) by @dhh
• Add post-boot notification hooks by @dhh
• Add offer to install Voxtype Dictation on new installers after first update by @dhh
• Add Bluetooth A2DP auto-connect in WirePlumber for more resilient Bluetooth audio connections by @dandresrp

Defaults

• Add Setup > Default > Browser/Terminal/Editor to choose the system-wide application by @dhh
• Add Install > Browser to install and switch the default browser to Chrome, Brave, Brave Origin, Firefox, or Zen by @dhh
• Add Foot terminal as an installable terminal option, including live theming by @dhh
• Add option to install without encryption through the ISO by @dhh
• Add Colemak keyboard layout option to ISO install flow by @danielmain

Aesthetics

• Add ASCII-logo screensaver and about-screen generation from any image by @ryanrhughes
• Add theming to the Zed editor when installed via Install > Editor by @pomartel
• Add fully matching theme for SDDM logins to the decryption style by @dhh
• Add light/dark mode syncing to the pi agent by @dhh
• Fix Catppuccin theme colorscheme name by @jcorbalan
• Fix theme refreshing to no longer changes the selected background image by @dhh
• Fix relative wallpaper paths before creating background symlinks by @alexoxte
• Fix no-gaps mode so rounding is also disabled by @maxguzenski
• Fix Helix theming legibility by @lukehsiao

Controls

• Add better idle handling: lock/sleep/wake flows now turn displays and keyboard brightness off and back on more reliably by @dhh
• Add middle-click paste consistency across GTK/Chromium apps by enabling primary selection paste on button 3 by @peteonrails
• Add tmux extended keys by default by @dhh
• Add file completions after Omarchy command completions run out by @dhh

Compatibility

• Add Studio Display XDR support by @miharekar
• Add Trigger > Hardware > Touchpad Haptic to control the haptic strength level of the Dell XPS 2026 by @jacob-vincent-mink, @dhh
• Fix audio on Intel Panther Lake systems with DSP by installing sof-firmware @mijuny
• Fix bass speaker for Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 14IAH10 by @aikazu
• Fix Asus Zenbook UX5406AA display backlight by @mateuszkowalczyk
• Fix hardware video acceleration for non-X-series Panther Lake Chips by @mateuszkowalczyk

Fixes

• Fix manual screen lock so the display powers off shortly after locking by @dhh
• Fix RetroArch joypad autoconfiguration and joypad directory setup by @dhh
• Fix omarchy cli metadata inconsistencies by @dhh
• Fix omarchy refresh applications should also update npx stubs by @dhh
• Fix installer formatting breaking on some preexisting linux installations by @dhh
• Fix pi package migrated to @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent by @ryanrhughes
• Fix identical notifications should be grouped by @dhh

Feature presentations

Set reminders

Omarchy now has a built-in way to set simple reminders based on a countdown timer and with a message. You can do this via Super + Ctrl + R, seeing all the ones set via Super + Ctrl + Alt + R, and clearing all via Super + Ctrl + Shift + R. Everything also accessible via Trigger > Reminder. You can also use the cli with omarchy reminder 7 'Tea ready'.

Live weather in Waybar and notification

Live weather is now available in the Waybar when you have an internet connection. It uses the brilliant https://wttr.in as the backend, translates that to cute glyphs, and even considers day/night according to the local sunrise/sunset times.

There's also a more detailed notification you can trigger with Super + Ctrl + Alt + W:

Set Default Browser/Terminal/Editor

The holy trifecta of productivity defaults can now be set explicitly from the menu. Whether you like Foot or Ghostty, Chromium or Zen, Neovim or Helix, you can make Omarchy yours with very little effort. Install what you need from Install > Terminal or Install > Editor or Install > Browser, then set your default or change it via Setup > Defaults.

Browser installer

Omarchy can now install browsers with all the correct configs for Omarchy from the install menu. Browser-specific styling was moved into this flow, so changing browsers keeps Omarchy's theme integration intact.

You get live theming with Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Brave Origin.

Foot terminal option

Foot joins the terminal lineup with Omarchy defaults and theme support. Install it from Install > Terminal and theme it like the rest of the system. It's a remarkably light terminal, using about a fifth of the memory footprint of other already light options like Alacritty:

No-encryption installs

Omarchy strongly recommends using encryption with any installation going onto a machine that can be stolen or lost. But if you're running Omarchy on a headless server that's fully secured, it can make sense to turn off encryption to make it easier to do remote restarts. This can now be done on the disk confirmation stage during install by hitting Ctrl + c. An unencrypted install still asks for the password on boot, but as part of the normal login process. Not pre-boot.

ASCII image screensaver + about screen

You can now set the screensaver to an ASCII-rendered version of an image, giving the lock/idle experience another fun customization opportunity. You do this via Style > Screensaver > Set From Image.

The same can be done for the about screen via Style > Screensaver > Set From Image.

Zed with Omarchy themes

Zed will now get live theming when installed via Install > Editor > Zed.

Transcoding flow

You can now transcode images and videos directly from the Omarchy menu through Trigger > Transcode or Super + Ctrl + R. Super handy when you've taken a screenshot and you need it as a small jpg (instead of the default png) or you've recorded a short video and you want it as a gif.

New Contributors

• @jscorbalan made their first contribution in #5572
• @ilyaZar made their first contribution in #5593
• @alexoxte made their first contribution in #5612
• @28allday made their first contribution in #5635
• @vitalibondar made their first contribution in #5623
• @aikazu made their first contribution in #5597
• @mateuszkowalczyk made their first contribution in #5620
• @dandresrp made their first contribution in #5336
• @patrickrodrigues-aa made their first contribution in #5656
• @twagner12 made their first contribution in #5661
• @mtp13 made their first contribution in https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/...

v3.7.1

What changed?

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Fixes

• Hotfix to remove lingering xe.enable_panel_replay=0 setting from KERNEL_CMDLINE by @ryanrhughes

v3.7.0

The Gaming Edition

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Install on new machines with the ISO:

• Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-3.7.0-2.iso
• SHA256: f74c1ed2ab6d2164c530e97a10e8dc5debe72bd9aec32989c7354ecb406bea99

Features

• Add unified omarchy CLI by @ryanrhughes
• Add text extraction from anywhere on the screen via Trigger > Capture > Text Extract and Super + Ctrl + PrtScr using tereseract OCR by @Prajwal-Prathiksh
• Add monitor mirroring of the internal laptop display to connected external display via Trigger > Hardware > Mirror Display and Super + Ctrl + Alt + Del by @timbelmon
• Add cliamp TUI music player on Super + Shift + Alt + M by @bjarneo
• Add lazy-installed GitHub TUI called ghui by @kitlangton
• Add new aliases ic (= tdl c), ix (= tdl cx), and icx (= tdl c cx) by @dhh
• Add dosfstools as a default package so you have fsck.fat and mkfs.fat available in case you need to fix a corrupted /boot partition by @niraletter
• Add transcode-video-gif function for turning a video into a gif by @dhh
• Add full compatibility with the ASUS ExpertBook Panther Lake laptop for both boot, screen, touchpad, and fingerprint reader by @mijuny
• Add fred=on kernel optimization for Intel Panther Lake systems by @dhh
• Add two-finger tap to right-click on touchpads by default on new systems (see Setup > Input to change existing) by @dhh

Gaming

• Add streamlined Steam installer that doesn't need user input by @dhh
• Add fully preconfigured RetroArch that no longer depends on AUR by @dhh
• Add streamlined bluetooth xbox controller compatibility without needing to restart by @dhh
• Add Lutris Launcher to Install > Gaming for running Battle.net games (Diablo/Starcraft/WoW) by @dhh
• Add Heroic Launcher to Install > Gaming for running Epic Games (sadly no Fortnite or Rocket League!) by @dhh
• Add Moonlight GameStream client to Install > Gaming for remote play of PC games from Sunshine server by @dhh
• Add Xbox Cloud Gaming web app to Install > Gaming for remote Xbox Game Pass play by @dhh
• Add Install > Gaming > Remove for removing any of the game setups by @dhh
• Fix obstructive SDL_VIDEODRIVER env causing problems with many Steam games by @RyanBreaker

Aesthetics

• Add boot unlock screen themeing via Style > Unlock (as well as omarchy plymouth) by @dhh
• Add subtle highlight to selected item in the omarchy menus for better visibility by @pipetogrep
• Add more smoothness to limine progress bar by @mlombardi96
• Add new Omarchy logo backgrounds for every default theme by @dhh
• Add better text contrast on backgrounds with Flexoki Light, Vantablack, Ethereal, Hackerman, and White themes by @lukehsiao, @dhh
• Add two new Tokyo Night backgrounds based on the new OMA logo by @jennpiatkowski87
• Add broader compatibility with older Omarchy themes by extracting their colors.toml from alacritty colors by @prepin
• Add themeing to Helix editor when it's installed via Install > Editor > Helix by @lukehsiao
• Add themeing for gum by @severin-richner
• Add themeing to Brave Origin browser by @dhh
• Add color highlighting to man pages by @spitfire05
• Add matching SDDM login screen theme to the boot unlock theme so they stay visually consistent by @dhh
• Add support for extra theme installs over ssh not just web by @Vargrul

Controls

• Add option to skip Limine boot rollback screen and go straight to boot unlock via Trigger > Toggle > Direct Boot (Super + Ctrl + O) (limine can then be selected as a boot option in bios if needed) by @dhh
• Add toggling passwordless sudo so agents can run with scissors via Trigger > Toggle > Passwordless Sudo (Super + Ctrl + O) by @dhh
• Add toggling touchscreen recognition in Trigger > Hardware (Super + Ctrl + H) by @niraletter
• Add toggling touchpad on/off in Trigger > Hardware (Super + Ctrl + H) by @niraletter
• Add Apple display brightness control to the normal brightness hotkeys by @dhh
• Add maximum brightness on Shift + Brightness Up and minimum brightness on Shift + Brightness Down by @dhh
• Add consistent brightness adjustment steps and slow ramp below 5% by @boobachad, @dhh
• Add right-click on the Waybar battery icon to show a detailed battery notification by @dhh
• Add persistent monitor scaling from Super + / in the default monitors.conf is used with just a single declared monitor by @dhh
• Add push-to-talk keybind for Voxtype on F5 by @ryanrhughes

Fixes

• Fix that only Dell XPS needs the linux-ptl kernel now and other Panther Lake systems get vanilla 7.0.3 kernel by @dhh
• Fix delays in boot sequence that improves overall boot time by 5-8 seconds by @dhh
• Fix install sequence would rebuild limine 4 times instead of just once by @dhh
• Fix hybrid GPU hardware detection so the toggle only appears when actually applicable by @dhh
• Fix scrambled frames in screen recording on slower systems by guarding the capture pipeline and only re-encoding when garbage frames are detected by @dhh
• Fix mid-transition screenshots by keeping hyprpicker alive until the capture is complete by @ryanrhughes
• Fix screenrecording with webcam on some systems by switching to screenshot-style selection of region/screen by @ryanrhughes
• Fix device dark mode handling in Chrome with a proper configuration by @dhh
• Fix jumping cursor / disable-while-typing on the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 detachable keyboard by @Cliffback
• Fix the "your kernel has been updated" check to be more resilient by @dhh
• Fix the useless lstopo.desktop entry in the app launcher by hiding it by @dhh
• Fix ISO installer allowing you to select your install media as the target by @mplaczek99
• Fix npx wrapper runtime so it's isolated from project PATH by @timohubois
• Fix ufw firewall should allow access for Docker DNS from 192.168 networks by @davzucky
• Fix background selector should recognize symlinks by @tushar-chauhan
• Fix web apps not disappearing immediately from app launcher after removal by restarting Walker by @afurm
• Fix deprecated VSCode theme for everforest by @cfulton
• Fix internal monitor disable for systems where built-in display is not eDP-1 by @17xande
• Fix refresh-config when target directory is missing by @timohubois
• Fix "Bistream" typo to "Bitstream" by @dotsilva
• Fix automatic powerprofile setting on boot for some USB-C only charging machines by @mijuny
• Fix custom DNS setting should also provide ipv6 servers by @jardahrazdera
• Fix low ulimit ceiling by @cyppe

Feature presentations

Unified Omarchy CLI

There's now a single omarchy command that is both documented and bash tab-completing. It gives you access to all the underlying omarchy-* commands without having to look up the source to learn what they do.

~ ❯ omarchy
Omarchy command center

Usage:
  omarchy <command> [args...]
  omarchy commands [--all] [--json] [--check]
  omarchy <group> --help
  omarchy <group> <command> --help

Common commands:
  omarchy update              Update Omarchy and system packages
  omarchy theme list          List available themes
  omarchy theme set <name>    Apply a theme
  omarchy font list           List available fonts
  omarchy screenshot          Take a screenshot
  omarchy debug               Print debugging information

Groups:
  ac             AC power detection
  battery        Battery status helpers
  branch         Omarchy git branch management
  brightness     Display and keyboard brightness
  capture        Screenshots and screen recording
  channel        Omarchy release channel management
  cmd            Command and shortcut helpers
  config         System configuration helpers
  debug          Diagnostics and support logs
  dev            Omarchy development tools
  drive          Drive selection and encryption
  font           Font management
  hibernation    Hibernation setup and removal
  hook           User hook runner
  hw             Hardware detection and controls
  hyprland       Hyprland window, monitor, and toggle controls
  install        Optional software installers
  launch         Application launchers
  menu           Omarchy menu commands
  migrate        Migration runner
  notification   Notification helpers
  npx            NPX package wrappers
  pkg            Package management helpers
  plymouth       Plymouth boot theme management
  powerprofiles  Power profile management
  refresh        Reset config to defaults
  reinstall      Reinstall and reset workflows
  remove         Removal workflows
  restart        Restart Omarchy components
  setup          Interactive setup wizards
  share          Share clipboard, files, and folders
  snapshot       System snapshots
  state          Persistent Omarchy state
  sudo           Sudo configuration helpers
  swayosd        SwayOSD status display helpers
  system         Reboot, shutdown, logout, and lock
  theme          Theme management
  toggle         Toggle Omarchy features
  tui            Terminal UI launchers
  tz             Timezone selection
  update         Omarchy and system updates
  upload         Upload helpers
  version        Version and channel information
  voxtype        Voxtype dictation
  webapp         Web app launchers
  wifi           Wi-Fi helpers
  windows        Windows VM management

Discovery:
  omarchy commands            List all commands
  omarchy commands --all      Include commands explicitly marked hidden
  omarchy commands --json     Machine-readable command list
  omarchy commands --check    Validate command metadata and routes

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v3.6.0

The Panther Lake Plus Extreme Efficiency Edition

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Install on new machines with the ISO:

• Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-3.6.0-2.iso
• SHA256: b43914a3c842920c6b8bec6a8fc1878291a359551945f17595b7a4ca3ef7ab44

Additions

• Add additional kernel patches to custom kernel 6.19.13 build for Panther Lake to extract maximum efficiency by @TsaiGaggery, @spencerbull
• Add full control of laptop display on lid open/close and assurance that unplugging the external display will always turn the internal one on again (even if cable is yanked during sleep or reboot) by @dhh
• Add persistent toggle system so window gap, single-window aspect, and other flags survive hyprctl reload and restarts by @dhh
• Add touchpad enable/disable/toggle support via XF86TouchpadOn/Off/Toggle with OSD feedback and persistent state by @drunkleen, @dhh
• Add 1.25 as a scaling option and allow traveling backwards through the resolution scaling cycle by @dhh
• Add screen recording audio normalization to -14 LUFS so quiet recordings are lifted to a consistent level by @robzolkos
• Add pause_media to voxtype by default so MPRIS players pause while dictating by @peteonrails
• Add Intel video encoding processors (intel-media-driver, Quick Sync H264/H265) by default so Kdenlive exports work on modern Intel CPU/GPU combos by @dhh
• Add mako restarting option to Update > Process by @dhh
• Add lazy initialization of the try command to speed up bash startup by @innerviewer
• Add voxtype GPU migration that enables GPU acceleration when Vulkan is available by @sgruendel
• Add sped-up window movement and special workspace animations by @dhh
• Add true-black configs and default background to the Vantablack theme for ultimate OLED efficiency by @dhh
• Add ThinkPad mic mute LED sync by @annoyedmilk
• Add Super + Ctrl + H for hardware toggles menu controlling covering laptop display, touchpad, and hybrid GPU (only shown when hardware is available) by @dhh
• Add Ctrl + Alt + Tab (next) and Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Tab (previous) to cycle focus through monitors by @sgruendel

Fixes

• Fix excessive disk usage from /home snapshots and btrfs quota churn killing CPU time by dropping /home snapshots entirely and giving up on btrfs quotas in favor of just keeping last 5 /root snapshots for fallbacks by @dhh
• Fix orphaned voxtype status --follow processes piling up after every Waybar reload by trapping EXIT in the wrapper by @peteonrails
• Fix omarchy-update hanging indefinitely when Chromium/Brave isn't running by skipping the blocking --refresh-platform-policy call by @peteonrails
• Fix keyboard layout being reset to US after omarchy-refresh-hyprland by re-running layout detection by @peteonrails
• Fix default audio sink switch not persisting by using wpctl instead of pactl so WirePlumber's configured sink is actually updated by @sergiojrdotnet
• Fix Typora's print dialog not floating by @NicolasDorier
• Fix Lumon theme colors for better visibility of selected text by @waleedhkirmani
• Fix Elephant menu crashing when using a customized default theme that lacks a preview by @maxwell7774
• Fix iA Writer Typora dark theme to work better on OLEDs by @dhh
• Fix cx alias to use the new --permission-mode bypassPermissions flag in Claude Code by @pontino
• Fix broken hide button on screensharing overlay by @dhh
• Fix omarchy-theme-install not lowercasing theme name by @endafk
• Remove XPS Panther Lake display workarounds (xe.enable_psr=0, disabled VRR) now that recent kernel patches resolve the underlying glitches by @dhh
• Remove the resume-boost workaround since the real fix is a BIOS update to the XPS by @dhh

Feature presentations

Increased Panther Lake efficiency

Intel and Dell continue to refine our custom 6.19 kernel for Panther Lake with more backports from 7.0 and other improvements. We're now able to hit 2w idle on the new Framework 13 Pro with IPS panel and 2.2w idle using the Vantablack theme for the Dell XPS OLED 16". Incredible numbers that point to battery life in excess of 30 hours!! As always, real usage mileage is a lot lower than that, but still a huge leap forward.

Close the lid to disable laptop monitor (when you have external monitors connected)

If you're using your laptop with external monitors, you now just have to close the lid to turn off the internal laptop disable. When you open the lid again, it'll be enabled once more. If you have a closed lid, put the computer to sleep/hibernate/off, and then resume without the external monitor connected, we'll catch that too, and re-enable the internal display.

With Intel laptops, this now also works flawlessly with Thunderbolt connected external displays, like the Apple 5K Studio and 6K XDR options. (For the latter, though, you'll want to add monitor=DP-2,disable to your monitors.conf to disable the second ghost display that the XDR advertises for no good reason.)

You can also still toggle the laptop display on/off using Super + Ctrl + Del or Trigger > Hardware > Laptop Display.

No more automated /home snapshots or btrfs quotas

Omarchy uses Limine snapper to capture your system state before an update, so you're able to rollback, if a new package breaks your system. But we were also taking snapshots automatically of your /home directory, even if we never exposed a way to restore that automatically. That could take up a lot of space. Especially since the automated cleanup was broken for a while 🫣. Now we just snapshot /root to offer package rollback for the last five updates, and thus we also no longer need btrfs quotas, which had caused performance issues for some people.

You can of course still setup your own /home snapshots, if that's something you use.

New Contributors

• @danflood94 made their first contribution in #4918
• @lewispb made their first contribution in #5369
• @drunkleen made their first contribution in #5353
• @waleedhkirmani made their first contribution in #5269
• @pontino made their first contribution in #5233
• @sergiojrdotnet made their first contribution in #5236
• @maxwell7774 made their first contribution in #4953
• @endafk made their first contribution in #5392

Full Changelog: v3.5.1...v3.6.0

v3.5.1

The New Release

Update existing installations using Update > Omarchy from Omarchy menu (Super + Alt + Space).

Install on new machines with the ISO:

• Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-3.5.1-2.iso
• SHA256: f28ce9f6d0d70d2a79ae584e52de7ce3cb5c21c6c1ffb806073db1df2140b03a

Additions

• Add Dell XPS mute mic key support with hardware LED sync by @spencerbull, @dhh
• Add resume performance boost on Panther Lake systems to avoid sluggishness after wake from sleep by @dhh
• Add Trigger > Toggle > Laptop Display to turn the laptop display on/off when using an external monitor by @dhh
• Add Update > Hardware > Trackpad to restart i2c_hid_acpi and THC driver paths for XPS haptic touchpad losing hapticness (temporarily until there's a permanent fix) by @dhh
• Add Logitech MX Keys key binding examples for Print Screen, Dictation, and Emoji buttons to ~/.config/hypr/bindings.conf on new installs by @joaovictor

Fixes

• Fix Fcitx5 icon showing up in the waybar (again!) by using a proper XDG autostart override instead of deleting the system file by @pomartel
• Fix Intel Panther Lake display freezes and glitches by disabling both PSR and Panel Replay (xe.enable_psr=0) by @dhh
• Fix haptic touchpad detection to match any Synaptics product, not just one specific model, for broader Dell XPS compatibility by @dhh
• Fix spurious Hyprland config errors during git update by suppressing errors mid-pull and reloading after by @dhh
• Fix double sudo prompt during updates by moving the PTY logging wrapper earlier in the update flow by @dhh
• Fix Intel LPMD service not being enabled after installation by @dhh
• Fix power profile rules running on every update instead of only on first run when the daemon is available by @dhh
• Fix npx wrappers to run through mise-managed Node instead of system Node by @timohubois
• Fix starship prompt init for dumb bash sessions (e.g. scp, rsync) by @pipetogrep
• Fix display scaling cycle notification warnings by removing the Hyprland scale notification permanently by @dhh
• Fix Chromium default appearance to follow system (device) instead of dark by @dhh
• Fix btop.conf for v1.4.6 by @stefangrundel
• Fix hibernation setup gracefully handling a failed btrfs resume offset lookup by @dhh
• Fix Chromium/Brave stderr noise during theme switch by @felipegonzalez
• Fix AC power udev rules failing silently at boot by wrapping them with systemd-run by @marco
• Fix Intel video acceleration migration scripts referencing renamed path by @LiamMitchell
• Fix browser launcher not recognizing new Brave Origin by @dhh
• Fix sluggishness with the walker app launcher on some systems by making it use the cairo software renderer by @dhh
• Fix performance power profile should be used when booting on AC power by @dhh

New Contributors

• @geonizeli made their first contribution in #5301
• @liamcmitchell made their first contribution in #5288
• @felipe3dfx made their first contribution in #5285

Full Changelog: v3.5.0...v3.5.1