Omarchy Quattro Is Out - Your Desktop Is Now A Programmable Playground
Omarchy 4 is here and the headline feature changes everything — a plugin system built on Quickshell and QML that turns the entire desktop into one programmable surface. DHH's video covers the OS itself, so I'm not duplicating…
Omarchy 4 is here and the headline feature changes everything — a plugin system built on Quickshell and QML that turns the entire desktop into one programmable surface. DHH's video covers the OS itself, so I'm not duplicating that. This video is about what YOU can build with it — and I've been busy through the beta, so I've got a stack of my own plugins to show you.
Check out DHH,s video on Omarchy Quattro
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THE PLUGIN SYSTEM
Quattro ships with first-party plugins you can enable from the menu — media player, active window, Dropbox, Tailscale, microphone, weather. But the community repository is where it explodes. There's already a ton of third-party plugins, and it's growing daily. It's a plugin apocalypse out there.
WHAT I BUILT
Plugin Manager — the first thing I made, built in about an hour with an agent. A top-bar panel that shows every plugin on your system, first-party and third-party, with on/off toggles and one-click removal. I knew I'd be installing everyone's plugins to try them, so I wanted a clean way to manage the chaos.
Claude Usage Tracker — a little robot head in the bar that shows your agent usage. Click it and see your model and token consumption at a glance. If you're working with agents all day, this is genuinely handy.
Oma-Send Panel — my LocalSend-protocol client, completely rewritten as a Quattro panel. I love what LocalSend does but I don't like its interface, so I built my own on the same protocol. Devices, messages, file transfers, auto-accept — all in a clean panel that's always there. Right-click any file to send it, receive from Macs, phones, anything speaking LocalSend. There's even a Claude skill baked in so you can tell an agent "send this file to Obsidian Apogee" and it just goes. CLI sending works too.
DeckShift Panel — the Gamescope Steam Deck launcher, now integrated as a proper gaming panel instead of the old TUI. Steam-style gaming button in your bar, settings for resolution and GPU, Super+Shift+S into game mode, Super+Shift+R back out. One confession — I demo it live and discover I hadn't pushed the panel version to Git yet. It's live now. That's what you get for juggling twenty repos.
FROM THE COMMUNITY
I install Flight Radar live on camera — I live by Heathrow and it shows every plane over your head in real time, anywhere in the world. There are whole interface takeover projects like Lacuna that I'll cover in future videos. People are solving their own problems and sharing the results, which is exactly what this ecosystem should be.
WHY QML CHANGES EVERYTHING
You don't need to know QML. That's the point. Tell an agent what you want — a calendar, a tracker, a panel for anything — and it builds it. Clone DHH's first-party plugins and modify them for your needs. Coming from years of wiring things together with bash scripts, having one programmable surface for the whole desktop is a genuine turning point.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
If you're coming from Windows or Mac and you need to be genuinely productive day to day, this is the distro I'd point you at. Ninety percent of what you do — including most Photoshop-style work, which Resolve now handles — works here. Gaming works, minus the kernel anti-cheat titles. And there's no mega-corporation behind the OS — just brilliant people in a Discourse channel making something beautiful.
DHH called it the year of Linux. I think it's more than that. It's a turning point — AI used the way we want to use it, on an OS we actually own.
All my plugins are on Git — links in the description. Loads more Quattro videos coming.
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00:00 - Start
00:09 - INTRO
06:08 - INSTALL
11:10 - DESKTOP LOOK AROUND
14:40 - THEMES
17:01 - TMUX /HErDR
22:53 - OMARCHY PLUGINS
41:29 - FINAL WORDS