Issue 5 · Sunday 18 October 2026 · 3 min read
Qt 6.12 blacks out the menu, Glassy windows land, and Xournal++ makes way for Signed
In this issue: Releases & Changes (3) · Features & Workflow (4) · Themes & Ricing (2) · DHH & Direction · Worth Trying
Releases & Changes
Signed — Omacom's in-house PDF signer ships by default in place of Xournal++; upgrades install it via migration, and existing Xournal++ installs are left alone.
ARM update flow — omarchy update on ARM machines no longer insists on a reboot after every single update.
Session locking — Lock code now reads live lock state directly so suspend can't sleep an unlocked machine, and recovery waits instead of grabbing locks another locker may hold.
Features & Workflow
Window Transparency — Appearance gains Transparent, Opaque and Glassy window modes, plus bar backgrounds you can cycle by double-clicking — clear, glassy or opaque.
Window Corners — Appearance > Window Corners offers Sharp, Rounded (Solitude's corners) or Theme corners, and the choice survives a failed save.
Bar clock format — Appearance > Menu Bar > Indicators > Clock lists every format the cycling clock uses, labelled by how it reads, current one checked.
Tray drawer — Bar widgets can now be parked inside the tray's drawer — drag one onto the tray — and plugins can adopt that spot by default.
Themes & Ricing
Theme-intro wallpaper fix — Switching to a theme with an intro animation could leave the desktop bare: the shell got the new wallpaper only when the intro failed, and otherwise kept a path the swap had deleted. The image is now handed over in both cases, and the shell re-checks the background link whenever the desktop returns or a load fails. A dead link falls back to the theme's first background. GitHub
Tokyo Night background migration — Liftoff's move to the front of Tokyo Night renumbered every other wallpaper, so a 4.0.x upgrade pointed at a file that no longer existed and quietly dropped you onto Liftoff. A new migration remaps such picks to the one background with the same name under a different number, for the current background and each theme's remembered choice. Wallpapers that still load, ones you added yourself, symlinks and picks without a unique match are all left alone. GitHub
DHH & Direction
I'm sorry, but you still have to think — Piotr Sarnacki dissects DHH's AI-written Campfire rewrites in Rust and Elixir: each answered unspecified trade-offs differently (the Rust one drops the CSRF token), and throughput benchmarks hid a 1% notification delivery rate under load. Relevant if you follow DHH's agent-heavy direction: someone still has to read the code a clanker writes. Widening the Rust broadcast channel from 256 to 16384 lifted delivery at 100 req/s from roughly 14% to roughly 90%, but pushed worst-case latency from 11 seconds to over 130. itsallaboutthebit.com
Worth Trying
Try Glassy windows and a glassy bar. This week's Appearance menu deserves a look. Set Appearance > Window Transparency to Glassy for frosted blur behind every see-through window and shell surface, then double-click the bar to cycle its background from clear to glassy to opaque — or run `omarchy bar background glassy`. New VM installs start opaque by design, and a migration keeps machines with animations turned off opaque too. GitHub
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Every issue
- 25 OctOmarchy 4.5 RC lands, v4.0.6 unblocks stalled updates, and notifications go keyboard-first
- 18 OctQt 6.12 blacks out the menu, Glassy windows land, and Xournal++ makes way for Signed
- 11 OctNamespace's ARM runners, gliff in the base install, a Starship theme, and the edge repo hiccup
- 4 Oct$100k bug bounties on HackerOne, ThePrimeagen takes Agentic QA, and the linux-omarchy fallout worth checking
- 27 SepOmarchy 4.0.4 boots its own kernel by default; Alibaba Cloud puts $3M behind the project
- 23 SepOmarchy Weekly, Sept 23: a quiet changelog — a rootless sandbox for coding agents, macOS re-enabling a declined AI, and gzip as a language model