Command Bar

A Spotlight-style command bar for Omarchy.
Open apps, switch windows, find files, do maths, convert currencies and units, check time zones, find emoji and symbols, quit processes and ask your AI agent, all from Super + Period.

Install · Features · Why Command Bar · Configure · Privacy · Contributing

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/Saikomantisu/omarchy-commandbar --enable

Then press Super + Period to open it. Everything it needs comes with Omarchy.

Features

Feature	Try typing
Calculator	12*8 + 15%
Currency	100 usd to eur
Units	5 km to mi
Time zones	time in tokyo
Dates	days until dec 25
Apps and windows	browser, w term
Files	.pdf to search by name, ~/Downloads/ to browse (Tab goes into a folder)
Emoji and symbols	:fire, :arrow, :degree
Processes	kill chrome
Web addresses	example.com, localhost:3000
UUIDs, hashes, encoding	uuid, sha256 hello, base64 hello
Your AI agent	ai why is my wifi slow
Keyword commands	g …, yt …, or your own

Type ? in the bar for help and examples for every feature.

Why Command Bar

Omarchy already has an emoji picker, a calculator and an agent picker, each on its own key. I wanted one key for all of that, plus currency, time zones, units, windows and killing processes. Command Bar is that key. It sits on Super + Period, leaves the menu on Super + Space alone and needs nothing Omarchy doesn't already ship.

It isn't going anywhere. It has tests, and each release goes through the Omarchy marketplace's verification before it shows up there. There have been six releases since 1.0 on 24 September.

If you'd rather replace the Omarchy menu itself, Keystroke does that.

Configure

Put your settings in ~/.config/omarchy/extensions/commandbar.json. They override the defaults in config.default.json, and changes apply when you save.

{
  "hotkey": "SUPER + PERIOD",
  "currency": { "home": "EUR", "favorites": ["USD", "GBP"] }
}

[!WARNING] ai starts your Omarchy agent with its auto-approve setting, so the agent runs commands without asking. The row says so before you press Enter.

Privacy

• The only network request is for exchange rates, at most once a day. What you type isn't sent anywhere, except web keyword searches like g and prompts you give your agent with ai.
• File search and browsing run fd only while files are on screen. They read file names, not their contents. Searching by name covers your home folder and leaves out hidden files; browsing lists the folder you type.
• A typed web address opens only when you press Enter, and only http and https addresses open.
• It writes only to ~/.cache/omarchy-commandbar/ and never changes your Hyprland or Omarchy config files.
• Its hotkey is set in the running Hyprland and removed with the plugin.

Remove

omarchy plugin remove io.github.saikomantisu.commandbar
rm -rf ~/.cache/omarchy-commandbar ~/.config/omarchy/extensions/commandbar.json

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT