Open source · Omarchy plugin
Omalauncher
Find every app and Omarchy feature without remembering where it lives.
A keyboard-first command palette for Omarchy. It searches applications, system actions, shell features, files, and commands from one place.
- Built for
- Omarchy 4
- Current build
- v1.0.0
- License
- MIT
The problem
Useful features were easy to forget.
Omarchy exposes hundreds of actions across nested menus, shortcuts, shell surfaces, and terminal commands. Finding one often meant remembering where it lived before searching could even begin.
The solution
Search what you mean.
Omalauncher turns those separate surfaces into one keyboard-first index. Type a phrase like toggle nightlight, clipboard, or browser default and act on the closest result.
Key decisions
A single interface, with the edges left intact.
The launcher unifies discovery without pretending every provider behaves the same way.
One result space
Applications, Omarchy menus, live shell features, CLI commands, and optional file search rank together instead of living behind provider tabs.
Breadcrumbs keep the context
Every command keeps its path through Omarchy, so similar results explain where they lead before anything runs.
Availability before visibility
The launcher respects Omarchy’s own checks and only shows actions the current system can actually use.
Personal, not predictive
Favorites, aliases, hidden results, and recent use tune ranking locally without sending activity away from the desktop.
File search with a boundary
File search is off by default and stays inside folders the user explicitly chooses—it never turns the whole filesystem into a search scope.
Engineering details
Discover live sources. Merge carefully. Execute safely.
The implementation follows the system instead of maintaining a fragile copy of it.
- Interface
- Quickshell and QML provide a native desktop surface, with JavaScript models handling search, navigation, state, and provider merging.
- Live discovery
- Installed applications, static menus, the live shell registry, and the Omarchy CLI catalog are indexed from their real sources instead of copied into a second menu.
- Safe execution
- Shell features use the shell’s summon API, menu actions return to Omarchy, and reviewed CLI actions run with literal argument arrays. Commands needing more context open help instead.
- Always current
- Configuration watchers refresh menus, plugins, shell features, the CLI catalog, and personalization as their source files change.
- Apps
- Menus
- Shell
- CLI
- Files
Search + rankOne result list
Provider-awareSafe action
Installation
Add it with one Omarchy command.
Then open the bar icon and complete welcome setup to choose a global shortcut and check optional tools.
omarchy plugin add https://github.com/mirashif/omalauncher.git --enable --yes