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Pill Workspaces

by Charlieras262

Workspace indicators with a rounded pill for the active workspace

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No obvious issues detected

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AI advisory review

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Language-model assessment · ~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest — advisory only

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This is a straightforward QML bar-widget plugin that renders workspace indicators and dispatches workspace focus commands through the standard Omarchy/Quickshell API. The code is readable, contains no install scripts, obfuscation, persistence, or credential handling, and all user-configurable values are clamped to safe ranges. The deterministic scan found no issues, and none are apparent on manual review.

How this check works

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It runs on the same analyzed commit as the deterministic scan and is strictly advisory — it is not a security guarantee and never blocks a plugin by itself. A human moderator still reviews plugins before they are listed.

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Install
$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/Charlieras262/omarchy-pill-workspaces --enable
Widgets #Hyprland #bar #workspaces

Pill Workspaces

An Omarchy bar-widget plugin: a drop-in replacement for the stock omarchy.workspaces widget where the active workspace renders as a rounded, filled, always-square pill instead of just losing its dim/idle opacity. The number's color automatically picks whichever theme color contrasts best against the pill, so it stays legible across light and dark themes alike.

Pill Workspaces: rounded, theme-colored active-workspace indicator

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/Charlieras262/omarchy-pill-workspaces.git --enable

This clones the plugin into ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/ and switches the bar's workspaces slot to it. omarchy plugin update later pulls new versions the same way any git-managed plugin does.

Configure

All settings are optional and set per-instance in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json, on the widget's own layout entry:

{
  "id": "charlieras262.pill-workspaces",
  "maxWorkspaces": 6,
  "indicatorColor": "urgent",
  "indicatorRadius": 8,
  "indicatorXInset": 4,
  "indicatorYInset": 4,
  "indicatorBold": false
}
Key Type Default Description
maxWorkspaces number 5 How many workspace slots to always show, clamped to 1-36. A workspace beyond this count still shows up once something is open on it.
indicatorColor "foreground" | "accent" | "urgent" | "muted" "foreground" Which theme color fills the active workspace's pill.
indicatorRadius number (px) 6 Corner radius of the pill, clamped to 0-200.
indicatorXInset number (px) 2 Extra padding (left + right) around the pill, added to the cell -- doesn't change the pill's own size. Clamped to 0-200.
indicatorYInset number (px) 6 Shrinks the pill's side length, barSize - indicatorYInset * 2 on each edge. Clamped to 0-200.
indicatorBold boolean true Bold the active workspace's number. Set false for a normal weight.

The pill is always a square: its side length is the bar's own height minus indicatorYInset * 2. A single bar-widget can't grow the bar's own thickness -- every other widget shares it -- so indicatorXInset only pads the cell around the pill rather than resizing it. To get a bigger square pill, lower indicatorYInset, or raise the bar's own height first (Omarchy's shell.toml, [bar] size-horizontal) and the pill will size up to fill it.

Upgrading from 1.0.1 or earlier: indicatorInset was split into indicatorXInset/indicatorYInset. If you had set indicatorInset, replace it with indicatorYInset (same meaning, same default) and add indicatorXInset only if you also want extra padding around the pill.

The file hot-reloads — no restart needed after editing it.

Remove

omarchy plugin remove charlieras262.pill-workspaces

This removes the plugin's files and switches the bar's workspaces slot back to the stock omarchy.workspaces widget.

Dependencies

None beyond what a stock Omarchy install already ships — this is plain QML built on Omarchy's own qs.Commons/qs.Ui modules and the Quickshell Hyprland integration, no external packages or services.

Why not just theme the stock widget?

Omarchy's built-in omarchy.workspaces widget only changes opacity for the focused workspace; it doesn't have a way to render a filled shape or pick a contrasting text color. This plugin is a clone of that widget with those two behaviors added, kept close enough to the original that clone-and-diff against a future stock version stays easy.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.