glass-bar-omarchy

This is a customized status bar for Omarchy, replacing the default omarchy.bar. I wanted a glass bar with rounded corners and vibe coded it.

I'm open to Pull Requests (PRs) if anyone needs something fixed, tweaked, or added!

Installation & Removal

To add this plugin to your Omarchy shell:

omarchy plugin add  https://github.com/Pmacdon15/glass-bar-omarchy --enable

Once installed, it will replace your default status bar.

To remove this plugin and revert to the default:

omarchy plugin remove glass-bar-omarchy

Technical Details

• manifest.json declares the plugin (id: glass-bar-omarchy, kind: bar) and points at Bar.qml as the entry point.
• Bar.qml is the main bar engine.
• widgets/ holds the bar widgets with sibling manifests.
• The bar receives its config from the host shell as a barConfig property; the host loads it from ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json (or config/omarchy/shell.json when the user has no file).
• omarchy bar position updates only the user shell.json file.

Customizing

The bar config lives under the bar: key of ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json. Once you customize anything via the bar gestures, omarchy bar ..., or by editing shell.json directly, your file is canonical — there is no deep-merge.

The bar is configured directly on the bar itself: drag empty bar space (or click-and-hold) to move the bar to another screen edge, double-left-click empty center-bar space to toggle transparency, and drag widgets to reorder them. The omarchy bar position, omarchy bar transparent, omarchy bar move, and omarchy bar set commands do the same from scripts. Enable or disable widgets with omarchy plugin enable and omarchy plugin disable (widget ids come from omarchy plugin list).

Example shell.json (bar subtree only shown):

{
  "version": 1,
  "bar": {
    "position": "top",
    "transparent": false,
    "centerAnchor": "omarchy.clock",
    "layout": {
      "left": [
        { "id": "omarchy.menu" },
        { "id": "omarchy.spacer", "size": 12 },
        { "id": "omarchy.workspaces" }
      ],
      "center": [
        { "id": "omarchy.media" },
        { "id": "omarchy.clock", "format": "HH:mm" }
      ],
      "right": [
        { "id": "omarchy.audio" },
        { "id": "omarchy.power" }
      ]
    }
  }
}

centerAnchor pins one center module to the exact horizontal/vertical center and flanks others around it. Set to an empty string to disable anchoring (the center list is centered as a group).

Module catalogue

First-party interactive widgets

| omarchy.audio | Volume icon + popup with master slider, output-device picker, per-app mixer | left = popup · right = mute · middle = popup · scroll = volume | | omarchy.network | Wi-Fi/Ethernet icon + popup with Wi-Fi scan, signal, connect, DNS provider selection | left = popup | | omarchy.tailscale | Tailscale status, connection switcher, machine browser, and copy actions | left = popup · right = toggle · middle = refresh | | omarchy.agents | AI coding agent limits with pace, today, last week, and all-time model breakdown | left = panel · right = launch agent · middle = next subscription | | omarchy.power | Battery/AC icon + popup with battery stats, power profiles, and system info | left = popup · right = toggle percentage | | omarchy.bluetooth | Bluetooth icon + popup with device list, connect/disconnect, battery | left = popup · right = toggle radio | | omarchy.monitor | Brightness and laptop display controls | left = popup |

The omarchy.indicators widget loads individual bar indicators from indicators/. Omit items (or set it to an empty array) to show all indicators in the default order, or set items to a subset such as ["Dnd", "Reminder", "NightLight"]. Set alwaysShow to true to keep inactive indicators visible instead of revealing them only on hover. Multiple omarchy.indicators instances are allowed, so different sections can show different subsets.

Orientation

All widgets work in top, bottom, left, and right positions. Popups anchor on the side opposite the bar edge, sliding into the workspace. Vertical bars use 28px width; widgets that show text fall back to compact icon-only forms (e.g. media hides its scrolling label).

Custom user modules

The schema accepts arbitrary module ids that you provide. Set type to command for shell-driven output or qml for a custom QML widget. Both still go under bar.layout.<section> in shell.json.

Command module:

{
  "version": 1,
  "bar": {
    "layout": {
      "right": [
        { "id": "omarchy.tray" },
        { "id": "vpn", "type": "command", "exec": "~/.config/omarchy/bar/scripts/vpn-status", "interval": 5, "tooltip": "VPN", "onClick": "nm-connection-editor" },
        { "id": "omarchy.audio" }
      ]
    }
  }
}

The command may print plain text or Waybar-style JSON, for example:

{"text":"󰌆","tooltip":"Work VPN","class":"active"}

QML module:

{
  "version": 1,
  "bar": {
    "layout": {
      "right": [
        { "id": "gpu", "type": "qml" },
        { "id": "omarchy.audio" }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Then create ~/.config/omarchy/bar/modules/gpu.qml. If you want to store it elsewhere, add a source path.

Custom QML modules should be an Item with implicitWidth and implicitHeight. They may optionally define these properties, which the bar fills after loading:

import QtQuick

Item {
  property var bar
  property string moduleName
  property var settings

  implicitWidth: 28
  implicitHeight: bar ? bar.barSize : 26

  Text {
    anchors.centerIn: parent
    text: "GPU"
    color: bar ? bar.foreground : "white"
    font.family: bar ? bar.fontFamily : "monospace"
    font.pixelSize: 12
  }

  MouseArea {
    anchors.fill: parent
    onClicked: if (bar) bar.run("omarchy-launch-or-focus-tui btop")
  }
}

Bar properties available to widgets

Widgets receive bar (the shell root), moduleName (string), and settings (object) injected at load time. The bar exposes:

• bar.foreground, bar.background, bar.urgent — theme colors (live-updated)
• bar.fontFamily — current monospace family
• bar.position — "top" | "bottom" | "left" | "right"
• bar.vertical — boolean shortcut
• bar.barSize — 26 horizontal / 28 vertical
• bar.run(command) — fire-and-forget bash exec
• bar.shellQuote(value) — safe shell-quote a string
• bar.showTooltip(target, text) / bar.hideTooltip(target) — shared tooltip popup
• bar.requestPopout(owner) / bar.releasePopout(owner) — one-popup-at-a-time coordinator

First-party bar widgets are manifest-backed just like third-party widgets. Simple widgets carry sibling manifests such as widgets/Workspaces.manifest.json; richer popup plugins live in feature directories such as ../panels/audio/, ../panels/network/, and ../agents/; and feature plugins such as omarchy.menu and omarchy.media declare their bar-widget entry points in their own manifest.json. Bar layout ids are namespaced, e.g. omarchy.audio, omarchy.network, and omarchy.clock. Older UpperCamelCase ids such as AudioPanel and Clock are migrated forward; new configs should use the namespaced ids.

Third-party widgets ship as separate plugins under ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/<plugin-id>/ with their own manifest.json declaring kinds: ["bar-widget"] and a barWidget entry point. Refer to the official Omarchy documentation for the manifest schema. Rescan, enable, and place third-party plugins with omarchy-shell shell rescanPlugins, omarchy plugin enable, and omarchy bar move.