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Active Window + Icon

by Carmine Paolino

Active-window title with the current application's desktop icon and adjustable icon saturation.

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Security review

No obvious issues detected

Deterministic scan — not a security guarantee

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Risk level
None
Analyzed commit
74266dd
Scanned
2 hours ago

No potentially dangerous behavior detected in the analyzed commit.

Automated analysis only — not a security guarantee.

AI advisory review

No obvious issues detected

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

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AI risk level
None
Recommendation
install
Model
~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest
Analyzed commit
74266dd
Reviewed
2 hours ago

This is a straightforward QML bar widget that displays the active window title and a matching desktop icon. It only reads local window/process metadata and runs a benign `readlink` on `/proc/<pid>/exe` with an argument array, with no install scripts, network access, persistence, or destructive actions. The deterministic scan found no issues, and none are apparent from the reviewed source.

How this check works

This review combines the deterministic scan (the rule-based results above) with an independent look at the plugin's code by a language model. The model reads a trimmed sample of the repository's files, the manifest, and the README, then gives a plain-language risk level and a recommendation: install (no notable danger), review (look closer first), or avoid (clearly dangerous).

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.

AI advisory only — automated analysis, not a security guarantee.

Install
$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/crmne/omarchy-active-window --enable
Widgets #Hyprland #bar #quickshell

crmne Active Window for Omarchy

A native Quattro/Quickshell active-window widget with the focused application's actual desktop icon and its window title.

Active Window appearance settings with saturation, icon size, title width, and title visibility controls

Icon lookup uses three pieces of runtime information, in order to handle both normal applications and Chromium web apps:

  • the active Wayland/Hyprland application class;
  • Hyprland's initial class and process ID;
  • the running process executable from /proc/<pid>/exe.

Those values are matched against Freedesktop desktop entries, including StartupWMClass, and the matched entry's themed icon is rendered. Linux Wayland windows do not carry a portable embedded icon themselves, so this is the standard reliable route to the icon belonging to the running app.

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/crmne/omarchy-active-window.git --enable --yes
omarchy bar move crmne.active-window --section left --after omarchy.workspaces

Requirements

  • Omarchy Quattro with its Quickshell-based shell.
  • Hyprland and standard Freedesktop desktop entries for application matching.

There are no additional packages, services, or helper scripts.

Remove

omarchy plugin remove crmne.active-window --yes

For local development, put or link this repository at ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/crmne.active-window and run:

omarchy-shell shell rescanPlugins
omarchy plugin enable crmne.active-window --section left --after omarchy.workspaces

The Omarchy bar settings UI exposes icon saturation from 0% (grayscale) through 100% (the original icon) to 200% (boosted), plus icon size, title width, and an icon-only toggle.

Left click activates the window, middle click closes it, and right click opens an appearance panel. The panel previews and persists saturation, icon size, title width, and the icon-only toggle directly in shell.json.