# Exploring Omarchy: A More Polished Arch Linux?

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**Created:** [September 12, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/t/exploring-omarchy-a-more-polished-arch-linux/1788 "2025-09-12T15:10:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![pjharper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@pjharper](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/u/pjharper)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/t/exploring-omarchy-a-more-polished-arch-linux/1788/2 "2025-09-13T09:06:50Z")

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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](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.](https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/96/manual-installation) 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](https://www.versobooks.com/products/3341-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! 😉

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**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/t/exploring-omarchy-a-more-polished-arch-linux/1788/3 "2025-09-16T18:51:15Z")

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> [@pjharper](#):
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> Now to figure out how to turn off the damn screensaver! It is frying my brain everytime it activates! 😉

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

> <https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/bin/omarchy-toggle-screensaver>

And screensaver launch script checks for the toggle:

> <https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/bin/omarchy-launch-screensaver#L12>

Btw the screensaver is just alactritty terminal in full screen with [terminaltexteffects](https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects) tool rendering the txt file.