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Five Omarchy plugins I use every day for calendars, backups, workspaces, monitors, and a tidier bar.

Here's how to use short press and long press shortcuts for your Omarchy applications.

Use bat to give cat syntax highlighting while keeping the simple cat workflow.

Use spotifyd as a lightweight Spotify Connect daemon and keep the full Spotify app closed while music plays.

Change Omarchy's automatic power profile switching to use the profiles you actually want on AC and battery.

Use named Hyprland special workspaces to create focused scratchpads for apps like Music and Todos.

Sprinkle a little French, Italian, German, or any other language into Omarchy.

Automatically dim your Omarchy laptop display on battery with a simple udev rule and brightnessctl.

Use Hyprland window rules to float and center dialogs, like Typora's Print window.

A tour of Omarchy's bin folder and a few of the commands that power the distro.

How I use Omarchy bash scripts to automate app installs, system tweaks, and machine setup.

Open a Ghostty terminal from Nautilus, automatically change power profile on battery and more...

A lightweight backup strategy: Dropbox for documents, Git for code, yadm for dotfiles.

A totally useless trick that brings me joy: throw confetti on your desktop.

Configure Hypridle to skip locking after sleep when you're connected to a trusted SSID.

How to use smaller gaps on a laptop screen and move workspaces automatically when docking to an external monitor.

Use keyd to turn the Copilot key into a virtual F13 hotkey, then bind it to Voxtype dictation.

Use keyd to make Caps Lock tap as Esc and hold as Super+Shift (the Omarchy app-launcher modifier).

Make rm safer by sending deleted files to the Trash.

Use personal Bash wrappers and explicit shortcuts to customise Omarchy commands without editing package files.

Add Lua keybindings for suspend and hibernate, including support for the lock screen.

A guide on how to stream audio from Omarchy to AirPlay speakers like Sonos or HomePod.

A quick procedure to replace power-profiles-daemon with TLP in Omarchy to improve battery life.