omacom/omarchy v4.5.0-rc2 on GitHub

⚠️ This is a release candidate, not a final release. Expect bugs, rough edges, and the occasional thing that breaks outright. Run it on a test machine, or make sure you have a working backup (or a snapshot you know how to roll back to) before you upgrade a machine you depend on.

Omarchy 4.5 is the first feature release since Quattro. It speaks 50 languages, gives every monitor its own workspaces, adds floating workspaces with a dock, rebuilds notifications, gathers how the desktop looks into a new Appearance menu, plays theme intros, and ships four new default apps: Hype, Monologue, Signed, and Disktree. Underneath, it installs in about half the time, it's faster from boot to theme switching, and it runs on NVIDIA N1x and Snapdragon X laptops.

Try it on an existing machine with Update > Channel > RC, then Update > Omarchy. Please report anything that breaks on GitHub.

Install on new machines with the ISO:

x86_64:

Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-4.5.0-rc2-x86.iso
SHA256: bc32dad4991a50e8d372f76490eb78b2034ffeca46aace423d95871049978a8f

aarch64:

Download: https://iso.omarchy.org/omarchy-4.5.0-rc2-aarch64.iso
SHA256: ee885285d6cba0dfc9a9ead22cf5bcc203b9f460970721b3c0b8a1dca4c867a8

Breaking changes

The boot menu stays out of the way now. Limine waits 1 second instead of about 6 and boots quietly, so most of the time you won't see the menu at all. That's fine for 90% of boots. When you need a different entry or a snapshot, keep tapping any key (the down arrow works) while the machine starts and it'll stop at the menu. To keep the menu up longer for good, set your own timeout: in /boot/limine.conf (for example timeout: 5); updates leave a timeout you set alone.

Some shortcuts moved:

Calculator: Super + Ctrl + Q is now Super + Shift + Q.
Activity: Super + Ctrl + T is now Super + Shift + T, and Super + Ctrl + T opens themes.
Network: Super + Ctrl + W is now Super + Ctrl + N, and Super + Ctrl + W opens backgrounds.
Nightlight no longer has a shortcut (it was Super + Ctrl + N); it's in Trigger > Toggle.
Super + Alt + Space opens Apps from the dock instead of the Apps menu.

Notification shortcuts changed:

Super + Comma acts on the newest card (dismisses it, opens it, or presses its one button) instead of only dismissing it.
Dismissing the last one moved to Super + Alt + Comma, which used to open it.
Silencing moved from Super + Ctrl + Comma to Super + Ctrl + Alt + Comma; Super + Ctrl + Comma now hands you keyboard control.

A few keys work differently:

Super + Tab, Super + Shift + Tab, Super + Ctrl + Tab, and Super + scroll stay on the current monitor's workspaces, since every monitor has its own.
In a terminal, Super + C and Super + V send Ctrl + Shift + C and Ctrl + Shift + V instead of Ctrl + Insert and Shift + Insert.

New defaults that could collide with bindings of your own: Super + Q (close window, alongside Super + W), Super + A (select all), Super + M (minimize to the dock), Super + Grave and Super + Shift + Grave (Quake console), Super + Alt + L (previous layout), Super + Shift + Ctrl + Arrows (move a window to another monitor), Super + Ctrl + Alt + C (screenshot), Super + Ctrl + Alt + E (world clock), Super + Ctrl + Alt + F (full screen desktop), and holding Right Alt for push-to-talk dictation.

Highlights

Add Omarchy in 50 languages

Pick a language under Setup > Language or run omarchy language <code>. The menu, desktop, and Omarchy's notifications switch immediately, and the system locale follows on next login.

Add floating workspaces with a dock

Super + L now cycles a workspace between dwindle tiling, scrolling, and floating, and the bar shows which layout each workspace uses. On a floating workspace every window floats with a titlebar in your theme's colors, and a dock shows your pinned apps, everything running, and a grid of every app. Drag to reorder or pin, right-click for more, and set the dock's position and auto-hide under Appearance > Dock. Super + M minimizes a window to the dock.

Give each monitor its own workspaces

Super + 1-0 now goes to the workspaces of the monitor you're on, and each monitor gets its own set of workspaces. You're also able to navigate intelligently using Super + Arrows to navigate to and from other displays. This combination provides a much more consistent and predictable experience for multi-monitor users.

Add new, enhanced notifications

Notifications now stack by sender. Action buttons, verification codes, and links work right from the card, and cards follow your theme. Identical notifications from the same sender collapse into one.

Super + Comma acts on the newest card: it dismisses it, opens it, or presses its one button, and hands you the keyboard when there's more than one choice. Super + Ctrl + Comma takes you straight there; number keys press buttons, Enter clicks the card, and the arrow keys move between cards. The bell in the bar turns on Do Not Disturb, and Super + Shift + Alt + Comma brings back the last day of notifications.

Add an Appearance menu for how the desktop looks

Everything about how the desktop looks now lives in one top-level Appearance menu, right before Trigger, and it takes over the old Style menu: theme, background, font, the menu bar, windows (gaps, corners, opacity, and the one-window ratio), branding, the dock, each workspace's layout, animations, and the unlock screen.

Add video wallpapers and theme intros

Backgrounds can be videos on the desktop, now played by OWE, and the lock screen shows a still frame from them. Themes play a short silent intro at login and when you switch to them; turn intros off under Appearance > Animations.

Introduce the F1 installer for even faster installs

The new F1 installer unpacks a prebuilt root image and adds this machine's packages on top, instead of installing about 940 packages one by one. This results in incredibly faster install times!

Boot in about a second, quietly

Limine's menu wait drops from about six seconds to one, boot is silent, and binfmt registration no longer stalls startup. Press any key during boot to reach the menu.

Speed up theme switching, menus, panels, and the bash prompt

The theme picker opens right away instead of after about 245 ms. Menus and panels open straight from Hyprland shortcuts, so a keypress no longer starts a process first (about 60 ms each time). The Omarchy menu's three slowest checks went from about 200 ms to about 16 ms, a new terminal shows its prompt about 30 ms sooner, and the desktop reacts to changes instead of polling for them.

Add Hype, Signed, Disktree, and Monologue as default apps

Hype makes presentations out of a single Markdown file, with a visual slide editor beside the source, and exports to PDF or PowerPoint.

Signed replaces Xournal++ for the paperwork: open a PDF, place your saved signature, text, and dates on it, and save a signed copy.

Disktree replaces the Disk Usage TUI with a treemap of what fills a disk, colored by kind, with the regenerable caches worth a look called out, so you can mark what should go and remove it.

Monologue records your camera with one key, themed to match the desktop. Omasnap takes over screenshots from Tensaku, and gliff gives you a remote desktop over SSH.

Add Elsewhen, a built-in world clock

Elsewhen sits next to the clock. Tap a city on the globe to set "here", search real places, name the people in a city, flip 12/24-hour with t and °F/°C with Alt + T, and summon it with Super + Ctrl + Alt + E.

Add a Quake-style terminal console

Super + Grave drops a centered, dimmed terminal console over the desktop, a handy home for a terminal agent. The full-size scratchpad stays on its own on Super + S.

Add support for NVIDIA N1x laptops

Add support for Snapdragon laptops

Merge Omarchy Mac into Omarchy, paving the way for Apple Silicon

Add Starship and Jade Horse as default themes

Features

Add Japanese, Chinese, and Korean input methods from the installer by @dhh in #14433
Add Superwhisper and Voxtype dictation by @dhh in #14552
Allow switching between several Claude and Codex subscriptions by @dhh in #13770
Add 11 more coding agents and track 23 agents and providers in the agents panel by @dhh, @sorenmat, @omarchybot in #14040
Add a Flexoki Light intro by @yamz8 in #15315
Add the Liftoff wallpaper to Tokyo Night by @tcballard in #14755
Allow deleting extra themes from the theme picker by @dhh in #14713
Allow bar widgets to live in the tray's drawer by @dhh in #15281
Allow scrolling through workspaces from the bar by @outfoxxed in #15256
Add a clock format with live seconds by @omarchybot in #7586
Add a no-animations mode, on by default in VMs by @dhh in #13550
Add theme sync to herdr machines by @dhh in #13430
Allow copying agent subscription logins over SSH by @dhh in #15405
Show Codex individual spend limits and their reset times by @Stegi56 in #15722
Add the Claude desktop app to Install > AI by @spencerbull in #10755
Set up browser integration when choosing Claude by @dhh in #11934
Add gliff for remote desktop over SSH by @dhh in #14712
Add Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and OneDrive web apps by @dhh in #10367
Add Slack to Install > Service by @dhh in #14434
Add SSH Agent as an optional service by @carletex in #9399
Add original vi as a terminal editor choice by @dhh in #10307
Add hey, basecamp, and Cloudflare CLIs as lazy-installed tools by @monorkin in #7626
Take a screenshot with Super + Ctrl + Alt + C by @TripleU613 in #8827
Add Super + Q as a second chord for closing a window by @omarchybot in #7767
Add Super + Ctrl + Alt + F to toggle a full-screen desktop by @dhh in #10672
Add select all and standard clipboard shortcuts in terminals by @ryanrhughes in #12915
Add o.rebind for replacing Hyprland keybindings by @ryanrhughes in #10537
Show captive portal status and a sign-in action in the network panel by @tobi in #8859
Print the OEM Windows product key from firmware by @dhh in #7480
Allow muting a program's notifications from its crash diagnosis by @omarchybot in #8549
Allow choosing how long passwordless sudo lasts by @dhh in #14435
Add a hover close button to notification toasts by @dhh in #6946
Add an Update > Kernel menu for switching the default kernel by @dhh in #15966
Add Open and Edit buttons to screenshot notifications, and Open and Omacut to screen recordings by @dhh in #16505
Allow omarchy-notification-send to add action buttons by @dhh in #16466
Allow removing a bar widget by dragging it off the bar by @ryanrhughes in #6782
Add Super + Ctrl + T for themes and Super + Ctrl + W for backgrounds by @omarchybot in #16072
Allow install media to preset the language, keyboard, and timezone by @omarchybot in #15522
Download packages from Omarchy's China mirrors on installs in China by @emirb, @xdanger in #16256
Add the Roadster Starlight background to Ethereal by @bjarneo, @tcballard in #15878

Improvements

Bring Grok up to par with Claude and Codex in the agents panel by @dhh in #13992
Log out, reboot, and shut down as soon as apps finish closing by @dhh in #15231
Speed up opening a terminal in the current window's directory by @dhh in #13423
Improve dragging and arranging bar widgets by @outfoxxed in #15517
Normalize bar icon size and alignment by @bjarneo in #15065
Return Caps Lock to normal and make Shift + Caps Lock the compose key by @dhh in #14939
Remember the selected wallpaper for each theme by @OldJobobo in #7718
Ask for the sudo password once per Omarchy update by @dhh in #13323
Approve orphan package removal automatically during updates by @dhh in #14428
Switch TCP congestion control to BBR and use the kyber I/O scheduler on real disks by @dhh in #11658
Keep package updates safe from logging out mid-transaction by @dhh in #11651
Replace Tensaku with Omasnap for screenshots by @ryanrhughes in #9446
Install T3 Code as its self-updating AppImage by @ryanrhughes in #15907
Make VS Code-family editors follow theme changes live by @Macho0x in #10134
Retheme running Hunk sessions on theme change by @dhh in #13518
Turn on hardware video decoding in mpv by @dhh in #15172
Improve PHP and Laravel installation by @nunomaduro in #12141
Install Node lazily and leave your mise config alone by @ryanrhughes in #15876
Enable overlay scrollbars in Chromium by @robzolkos in #14456
Register password manager and other native messaging hosts for Brave Origin by @dhh in #10292
Apply agent account selection to CLI subprocesses by @dhh in #14233
Keep the image picker fast and sharp with large collections and HiDPI by @keylimesoda in #14117
Dim installed software in the Install menus instead of hiding it by @dhh in #6955
Install missing apps when choosing defaults by @dhh in #6950
Apply the system keyboard layout to the login screen by @g-desoutter in #6896
Make apps opaque by default, keeping terminals transparent by @dhh in #14253
Move Calculator to Super + Shift + Q, Activity to Super + Shift + T, and Network to Super + Ctrl + N by @omarchybot in #16071
Grow panels out of the bar and morph between them, with press feedback on buttons and bar icons by @dhh in #16470
Show the next bar tooltip right away while one is already up by @dhh in #16488
Open the clock and weather panels under their widgets by @scottjones in #8942
Keep the network panel open after picking a DNS provider by @dhh in #16485
Guide fingerprint enrollment step by step by @scottjones in #15512
Speed up the Tailscale panel on tailnets with thousands of machines by @iskakaushik in #7623
Cut the CPU and memory the transparent bar spends sampling the wallpaper by @ryanyogan, @aholbreich in #8307
Check connectivity against Omarchy's own endpoint, and fix signing in to captive portals by @dhh in #16186
Find the weather location and the installer's timezone with Omarchy's own geo service by @emirb in #16240
Set the clock from ntp.omarchy.org instead of Arch's NTP pool by @emirb in #16247
Measure network speed with Omarchy's own speed test by @emirb in #16681
Offer the first-run update only when there's something to update by @emirb in #16211
Cover AUR updates and the boot check with the update's single sudo prompt by @omarchybot in #16568
Translate the About box, first-run notifications, and git setup by @dhh in #16550
Boot the live ISO on the Omarchy kernel, and on the T2 kernel only on Macs by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#310
Start the installer sooner by not waiting on every USB device and boot job by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#314
Speed up disk encryption with 4096-byte sectors on new installs by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#336
List internal disks first and open the install screens on the safe choice by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#320
Stop offline installs waiting on mise version lookups by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#323
Slide notifications in from under the bar and back out the way they came by @dhh in #16469
Group Brave Origin web notifications by site, and open the right tab when clicked by @ryanrhughes in #16296
Reveal the hidden bar indicators only when hovering left of the clock by @dhh in #16293
Shorten the toggles to Show Battery % and Stay Awake / Allow Sleep by @dhh in #16271
Speed up translated text in Omarchy's scripts by @dhh in #16584
Hide gum's English key hints in the installer and git setup by @dhh in omacom/omarchy-iso#325
Drop the English-only jokes from the install progress screen by @dhh in omacom/omarchy-iso#326
Explain how to check the ISO's signature with GnuPG by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#318

Fixes

Fix upgrades that could leave a kernel image without its root= parameter by @dhh in #6951
Fix fullscreen windows losing fullscreen after the screensaver by @MGross21 in #3284
Fix DaVinci Resolve dialogs stealing pointer focus by @AksharP5 in #6919
Fix fingerprint enrollment and lock-screen recovery by @GeertJohan in #7158
Fix key auto-repeat in the lock screen password field by @berndb in #7806
Fix 1Password and Bitwarden windows not floating by @dhh in #11704
Fix the boot password prompt off-center when a display appears late by @dhh in #11641
Fix the lock screen wallpaper loading after the password field on wake by @dhh in #13431
Fix the Wi-Fi icon flickering on OWE transition-mode networks by @dhh in #14133
Fix the cursor disappearing at startup after Hyprland reloads by @spencerbull in #14935
Fix the fingerprint reader waking while the lock has displays off by @dhh in #15294
Fix per-monitor workspaces moving after a monitor is unplugged by @ryanrhughes in #15867
Fix clipboard capture hangs by @maxcroy1 in #9488
Fix keyring access through the XDG Secret portal by @pkwagner in #9594
Fix agent panel clicks opening the tray by @dhh in #15501
Fix factory reset erasing other systems' boot entries by @omarchybot in #14949
Fix a blank factory reset prompt when run under sudo by @ryanrhughes in #16032
Fix updates failing when omarchy-nvim isn't installed by @imzihuailin in #15141
Fix calculator shortcuts staying after removing preinstalled apps by @OldJobobo in #7716
Fix the Copy URL shortcut in Brave Origin profiles by @dhh in #10308
Fix keyring updates claiming success when key operations fail by @Adolanium in #7807
Fix blurry menus and pickers on fractionally scaled displays by @dhh in #13419
Fix menus and pickers not reopening after a monitor is disconnected by @dhh in #14458
Fix the shell crashing when an audio device disconnects with the audio panel open by @omarchybot in #7783
Fix volume and output controls in non-English locales by @Sebo1411 in #14855
Fix screen lock timeouts when the session names a display that's gone by @dhh in #15226
Fix Neovim failing to start with the Catppuccin theme by @anandude in #12864
Fix themes with cyclic color references hanging the theme switch by @AFOliveira in #13046
Fix 1Password closing when the installer terminal exits by @dhh in #12402
Fix the keyboard layout widget switching devices nobody types on by @bjarneo in #10670
Fix ONCE installation when you're not in the docker group by @kevinmcconnell in #8224
Fix the desktop showing through Windows VM displays by @jmwall in #8162
Fix the keybindings menu leaving a Lua process running at 100% CPU by @tobi in #7564
Fix the shell replacing a shell.json it couldn't read with the defaults by @omarchybot in #14534
Fix the laptop display staying off after unplugging the external display by @Hamza0101, @dhiasalhiQ in #16310
Fix re-enabling a display resetting its position, scale, and mode by @zihaomu in #16147
Fix the Omarchy menu losing its rows while its file is being updated by @dhh in #16268
Fix a closing popup leaving bar widgets unresponsive by @omarchybot in #15111
Fix Taildrop notifications showing empty text and missing previews by @dhh in #16301
Fix the battery notification showing an empty time and 0W on a full battery by @dhh in #16272
Fix the screensaver's exit key flashing in the corner by @dhh in #16596
Fix Super + Shift + Return failing when the configured browser was uninstalled by @vitally in #16422
Fix layout switching skipping every other press with a non-Latin keyboard layout by @manuaudio in #14076
Fix the fcitx5 service restarting forever when fcitx5 isn't installed by @therk in #11694
Fix agents not finding mise tools installed after they started by @dhh in #16593
Fix pasting screenshots into agents in herdr panes started over SSH by @dhh in #16572
Fix a failed mise tool download stopping the rest of a system update by @sanjyay in #16318
Fix switching from edge to stable or RC leaving the machine on an old build by @emirb in #15903
Fix the Quattro upgrade resetting the default browser to Chromium by @omarchybot in #15074
Fix the Quattro upgrade stopping on background names with non-ASCII characters by @Pitchfork-and-Torch in #15277
Fix the kernel migration stopping on machines that boot with GRUB or systemd-boot by @manuaudio in #14188
Fix Lutris and Battle.net installing another GPU's 32-bit Vulkan driver by @zihaomu in #16046
Fix hibernation on unencrypted machines with more than one NVMe disk by @emirb in #16658
Fix Snapdragon laptop keyboards not typing at the disk unlock prompt by @emirb in #16688
Fix installs failing on the Lenovo Pro 9 with NVIDIA N1x by @breymander in #16423
Fix missing internal speakers and microphones on N1x laptops that ran the earlier audio profiles by @ryanrhughes in #16233
Fix the Hermes app not updating in place on ARM by @ryanrhughes in #16124
Fix free-space installs that could take an existing partition for a new one by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#307
Fix installs stopping on disks with an old RAID member or volume group by @omarchybot in omacom/omarchy-iso#327
Fix dual-boot installs failing to mount the EFI partition by @Damian626 in omacom/omarchy-iso#111
Fix installs stopping when the firmware won't take a new boot entry by @ryanio in omacom/omarchy-iso@238bb33
Fix an install next to another Omarchy removing that install's boot entry by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso@716bc15
Fix live ISO crashes on Arrow Lake-H laptops by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#311
Fix offline installs defaulting the timezone to Africa/Abidjan by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#329
Fix installer output landing unpadded on the screen while it prepares the disk by @emirb in omacom/omarchy-iso#338
Fix a floating workspace taking over the first window your own float rule covers by @zihaomu in #16143
Fix the compositor stalling when Super + L cycles a workspace in and out of floating by @omarchybot in #16397
Fix the shell checking the background every 16 ms for the rest of the session after a login intro by @emirb in #16731
Fix the low battery warning staying up after plugging in and coming back after reboots by @omarchybot in #16562
Fix notification history showing every card as just now by @dhh in #16277
Fix first-login notifications collapsing into a single stack by @dhh in #16515
Fix the shell showing raw translation keys before its translations load by @zihaomu in #16059
Fix resuming an interrupted drive password change removing the wrong key by @scottjones in #14874
Fix the FIDO2 migration being marked done before it was resolved by @ErikMelton in #16421

Security

Keep the Windows VM password out of the RDP client's arguments by @dicemans in #7902
Move screen-recording state out of world-writable /tmp by @Chessing234 in #8374
Harden passwordless sudo expiry across suspend by @AFOliveira in #9457
Bind update inhibitor cleanup to the process that created it by @AFOliveira in #9467
Isolate OCaml cleanup authorization by @ErikMelton in #10217
Pin factory-reset elevation to the packaged command by @AFOliveira in #13047
Remove saved fingerprint templates for the invoking user on reset by @AFOliveira in #13049
Refuse hook and state names that are paths by @Adolanium in #8170
Defer to system-auth in the polkit stack written by fingerprint and FIDO2 setup by @Wheel-Smith in #9873
Remove fingerprints from the reader's own storage when removing them by @scottjones in #16403

Deprecations

Replace the Gemini coding agent with Antigravity by @sanjyay in #6900
Replace Xournal++ with Signed for signing PDFs by @dhh in #14999
Replace the Disk Usage TUI with Disktree by @dhh in #14426
Remove Lazydocker from new installs by @dhh in #14230
Remove OBS Studio and Kdenlive from new installs by @dhh in #14962
Install clang with the Rust dev environment instead of for everyone by @dhh in #14967
Remove the Azerbaijani keyboard choice, which installed French AZERTY by @dhh in #14877

Compatibilities

Fix the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q internal microphone by @bprendie in #15574
Use upstream support for Motorcomm YT6801 Ethernet by @AFOliveira in #9682
Relay the Elgato Cam Link 4K as a 16:9 virtual camera by @dhh in #10809
Set up installed NVIDIA applications by @jdvmi00 in #12723
Stop asking for a reboot after every update on ARM by @birkskyum in #14447
Offer Dropbox on ARM machines with 4K pages, and Spotify as a web app on ARM by @birkskyum in #15757
Hide GeForce NOW, Battle.net, and Lutris installs on ARM by @birkskyum in #15753
Support fingerprint readers that a platform names by @scottjones in #14675
Offer the stable and RC channels on aarch64 by @emirb in #16065
Make power profiles work on ARM laptops by @dhh in #14737
Ask before turning on Touch ID on Apple Silicon Macs by @scottjones in #16360