NixFred's Favorite Omarchy Desktop
Desktop shot — NixFred calls Omarchy his favorite working environment in over 30 years of using computers.
NixFred
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Dazzle Dusk Theme Install
NixFred installs Dazzle Dusk — dark Omarchy theme with black glass, blue light, hot pink alerts.
Tailscale Host Monitor for Omarchy
Whole tailnet in the Omarchy bar — agentless, read-only SSH, discovery via local Tailscale daemon.
NixFred’s Omarchy Desk Setup
NixFred shares the desk where he works on Omarchy and invites others to post their setups.
Omarchy X Spaces Episode 1 Recording
NixFred posts the first Omarchy X Spaces episode — 95 minutes, 7+ speakers, recorded Sunday Sep 13, with a listen link and a standing Sunday series.
NixFred’s Omarchy Music Contest Archive
NixFred launches music.nixfred.com — an independent listening room and source-linked archive for Omarchy music contest entries.
Omarchy Spaces Every Sunday at 3PM EST
NixFred announces recurring Omarchy Spaces every Sunday at 3PM EST with ncfrontiersman — open participation, open discussion.
Trackpad Pulse Plugin for Omarchy
NixFred’s Trackpad Pulse records finger speed, fits a curve to your hand, and only applies after you press Apply — each pass logged.
NixFred: Pulse for Omarchy Adds GPU Monitoring
Pulse now monitors GPU alongside CPU, RAM, Disk, and Net in one plugin—NVIDIA via the driver library (not nvidia-smi), Intel/AMD from kernel counters.
NixFred: Glide — One Mouse Across Omarchy Machines
Alpha of Glide for Omarchy: share one mouse/keyboard across up to 9 Omarchy desktops on the LAN (edge-handoff, SSH verify/install, DTLS, bar pause, emergency return). Repo github.com/nixfred/Glide.
NixFred: Omarchy Moved the Linux Frontier Forward
Long reply arguing Omarchy lowers the Arch barrier to curiosity rather than gatekeeping skill — and that making Linux easier expands the community while pushing veterans toward harder kernel/compositor problems.
NixFred: Burn Bar 2.0 — Which AI Sub to Use Right Now
Burn Bar 2.0 for Omarchy: per-sub burndown cards that say USE GROK NEXT / COME BACK IN…, banked token clocks, SETUP page, and 1080p-friendly layout — not just how much you burned.
NixFred: Sunday Social Ep2 — Demystifying Plugins (Transcript)
Full Episode 2 write-up of the Omarchy Sunday Social on plugins: OmaStorm into core, OmarKit preflight, security skill + OmaVM, marketplace tips, Fort Knox federal hardening, and London meetup — with Spaces link and spaces.nixfred.com archive.
NixFred: Native X.com keyboard shortcuts on Omarchy
NixFred demos j/k and other native X.com key movements from an Omarchy keyboard-forward desktop — GIF of browsing without the mouse.
NixFred: Showoff Omarchy — Live Demo Mode for Your Desk
NixFred ships Showoff Omarchy, a pacman-installable demo mode that takes over the screen with live theme roulette, on-screen shortcuts, and tiling windows using your own apps and wallpapers, then restores the desk on Esc.
NixFred: Blip 2.6.2 — iMessage on Omarchy with 35 PRs
NixFred releases Blip 2.6.2 for iMessage on the Omarchy desktop via a Mac gateway, merging 35 pull requests from 13 contributors with faster conversation lists, fewer duplicate toasts, GIF support, quote-reply, and Hyprland crash fixes.
NixFred: Blip Plays iPhone Voice Messages on Omarchy
NixFred adds inline iPhone voice-message playback to Blip on Omarchy: the Mac bridge now identifies Apple's voice-message audio, and Blip converts it to Ogg Opus so Linux can play it without a separate player window.
NixFred: Infomarchy Gains Fleet Sessions and Bar-Aware Cards
NixFred highlights four community pull requests that landed on Infomarchy: per-host fleet session rows with SSH-to-tmux, pinning the cards to one workspace, reactive refresh on agent database writes, and cards that clear the live bar edge instead of a fixed top strip.
NixFred: Omarchy Sunday Social Episode 3 Write-up and Transcript
NixFred publishes Omarchy Sunday Social Episode 3 with a listen link plus a full write-up and transcript, leading with Lee Shand (@NotJustShaking) on what Omarchy means to a person with Parkinson's, and covering community builders, open questions, and the next session on Sunday, Oct 4, 2026 at 3pm Eastern.
NixFred: Elgato Stream Deck Pedal Wired into Omarchy
NixFred says he wired an Elgato Stream Deck Pedal into Omarchy (left: next theme, center: hold to dictate, right: next workspace) and links nixfred/footswitch; the photo is the blue Stream Deck Pedal retail box on a desk beside an illuminated Stream Deck.
NixFred: Open-Source Harness Fork with Omarchy Bar Widget
NixFred says he got a Harness from autonomous_labs, that it is open sourced, and lists differences in his nixfred/openharness fork including finding every Claude session for the dial, dictation into the right session, jumping to the correct orca or herdr window, custom firmware arcs per agent, weekly subscription use on the dial and bar, an Omarchy bar widget, and heavy desktop animation; the photo is the round Autonomous dial showing CLAUDE, CODEX, and KIMI weekly use with NEXT: KIMI.
NixFred: Omarchy Doctor Health Checks with fix with agent
NixFred presents Omarchy Doctor: a green medical cross when the machine is healthy, yellow when something needs a look, red when it really needs the owner, with the number on the cross as open problems, click for 16 evidence-backed checks, every problem a fix with agent button that only logs fixed when Doctor rechecks healthy, and a Fixes tab with before and after, linking nixfred/omarchy-doctor; one image is a cyber-medical stethoscope hexagon promo.
NixFred: Omarchy Collection Is Up to Date With Plugins, Apps, Tools, and Themes
NixFred says the Omarchy collection is up to date: plugins, apps, tools, and themes, with repo links, install info, and credit to the people behind them, and says submissions to the official Omarchy plugin site start this week; the still is a MADE FOR OMARCHY card counting 62 PLUGIN ENTRIES (55 live · 6 beta · 1 shelved), 18 APPS & TOOLS, and 1 THEME above "Official plugin submissions start this week".
NixFred: Omarchy Sunday Social Episode 4, the One Where Wes Touched the Kernel
NixFred posts the recap of Omarchy Sunday Social, Episode 4, recorded Sunday, October 4, 2026, "An hour and forty five minutes" with 155 tuned in and 11 people who came up to speak, hosted by ncfrontiersman (Wes Grimes) and NixFred; Wes shipped full Apple Studio Display support on Omarchy Mac, his first contribution with PRs in both the kernel and the OS, after he and Opus 5.5 watched how macOS changes volume and brightness and carried it back to Linux, with the fix in the Aurora kernel the M team maintains, and the recap also covers Lee Shand wiring a Waveshare touchscreen to Omarchy so a person can press a big button and Katherine Prawl launching the newsletter Omarchy for the Rest of Us.
NixFred: Infomarchy Just Got a Big One With Web Mode and Clickable Agents
NixFred says Infomarchy just got a big one: the Omarchy desk can now live in a browser and on a phone, it tells which agents can actually be clicked into and which ones are worker bees nobody can reach, clicking an agent running in Orca lands in its Orca tab, any session can be killed from its card, and agents on boxes that can't be seen get their own card, with 47 commits in 8 days, linking nixfred/infomarchy; the still is an INFOMARCHY card headed "OMARCHY PLUGIN · UPDATE 2026-10-04" with +47 COMMITS IN 8 DAYS, 121 STARS, 23 FORKS, 14 CONTRIBUTORS, 39 PRS MERGED, 603 TESTS PASSING, and 6 WK SINCE DAY ONE, a THANK YOU list led by TechLuddite and Wulf Kaal, and NEW SINCE THE LAST UPDATE rows such as Web Mode, REMOTE roster card, and Kill a session from its card.