Exploring Omarchy: A More Polished Arch Linux?

ashraz · September 12, 2025, 3:10pm

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pjharper · September 13, 2025, 9:06am

There is a handy script you can use to remove the unnecessary bloat from Omarchy at the URL below:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxart/omarchy-cleaner/main/omarchy-cleaner.sh

What the hell is Typora even for when you have Neovim or, as God intended, you can install Emacs?

I am installing on flaky Internet in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. I used the regular Arch Installer for the manual install. For some reason the Omarchy.iso would not connect to the base WiFi so I tried the Arch Installer.

At the end of the Archinstall you have the option to drop into a chroot where you can run the install.sh bash script.

Personally I am finding it useful to get Hyprland up and running. I will remove the Enshittification with the script, make the keyboard navigation with hjkl, and replace programs like Omarchy-Chromium and Neovim with Firefox and Emacs, etc.

I think this is a good way for non-technical people to have access to Arch for writing and programming. It is not for the experience Arch User who wants to tinker.

Now to figure out how to turn off the damn screensaver! It is frying my brain everytime it activates!

erkiesken · September 16, 2025, 6:51pm

Looks like there’s a toggle script and state file that controls this.

github.com/basecamp/omarchy

bin/omarchy-toggle-screensaver

master

#!/bin/bash

STATE_FILE=~/.local/state/omarchy/toggles/screensaver-off

if [[ -f $STATE_FILE ]]; then
  rm -f $STATE_FILE
  notify-send "󱄄   Screensaver enabled"
else
  mkdir -p "$(dirname $STATE_FILE)"
  touch $STATE_FILE
  notify-send "󱄄   Screensaver disabled"
fi

And screensaver launch script checks for the toggle:

github.com/basecamp/omarchy

bin/omarchy-launch-screensaver

master


      
          
          # Exit early if we don't have the tte show
          if ! command -v tte &>/dev/null; then
            exit 1
          fi
          
          # Exit early if screensave is already running
          pgrep -f "alacritty --class Screensaver" && exit 0
          
          # Allow screensaver to be turned off but also force started
          if [[ -f ~/.local/state/omarchy/toggles/screensaver-off ]] && [[ $1 != "force" ]]; then
            exit 1
          fi
          
          focused=$(hyprctl monitors -j | jq -r '.[] | select(.focused == true).name')
          
          for m in $(hyprctl monitors -j | jq -r '.[] | .name'); do
            hyprctl dispatch focusmonitor $m
            hyprctl dispatch exec -- \
              alacritty --class Screensaver \
              --config-file ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/alacritty/screensaver.toml \

Btw the screensaver is just alactritty terminal in full screen with terminaltexteffects tool rendering the txt file.

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