Familiar v0.1.0 gives Omarchy a few familiar places to click: a dock, window controls and settings you can open from the bar.
- Find the right window. Launch an app, choose an open window by name, bring it here or arrange it on screen.
- Make room, then come back. Show Desktop hides eligible windows; Restore brings them back, with a recovery journal across shell reloads.
- Choose what feels comfortable. General, Windows and Mac layouts share your pins. Put the dock at the bottom, left or right. Optional title bars add close, minimise and maximise controls.
- Keep the everyday bits close. Centred settings, active shortcut help, optional Home/Downloads/Bin buttons, and separate Quit and confirmed Force Quit actions.
- Let Caps Lock mean Caps Lock. Choose Normal Caps Lock, Compose or your existing configuration. Both late keyboard bugs are fixed.
Install from an Omarchy Quattro terminal:
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tcballard/omarchy-plugin-familiar-desktop/v0.1.0/install.sh) windows
omarchy restart shellUse mac for controls on the left. Restore minimised windows before upgrading. Installation uses prebuilt, checksum-verified Linux x86_64 components; no GitHub login, Rust toolchain or Hyprpm build is required.
Window controls require Hyprland 0.56.2 commit efb50993780079460b0cbed1363e2166a2de1d9f, ABI efb50993780079460b0cbed1363e2166a2de1d9f_aq_0.15_hu_0.14_hg_0.5_hc_0.1_hlg_0.6. Unsupported versions stop setup.
The maintainer approved rc.5 after XPS testing. Runtime source is unchanged from rc.5; formal preparation updates documentation and tag automation. Automated Rust, Lua, QML, installer and release-build checks cover the candidate. This is not a claim of exhaustive multi-monitor, scaling, application or fresh-profile lifecycle testing.
Remove Familiar with:
bash ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.tcballard.familiar-desktop/uninstall.shRemoval restores journalled windows, resets owned keyboard/title-bar configuration and stops if cleanup fails. Settings, pins and backups remain.
The curated app collection is planned for v0.2.0. Paint, Notepad and Task Manager remain separate projects.
Found something awkward or broken? Open a bug report with your version, steps and a screenshot.