Patro Clock

Omarchy's clock, with a Nepali Bikram Sambat calendar beside the Gregorian one. Two-finger swipe sideways in the popup to cross between them.

It replaces the built-in clock rather than sitting next to it, so you get one clock in the bar and one calendar popup — not a second date widget competing for space.

Gregorian	Nepali

Both views are laid out to exactly the same width and height, so switching never resizes or reflows the popup. Each one sets its own date large and names the other calendar small — which is the pairing you actually want when you are reading one and thinking in the other.

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/samirpokharel/omarchy-patro-clock.git --enable

Pick center when it asks for a section, then remove the built-in clock so you do not have two:

omarchy plugin disable omarchy.clock

If the built-in clock was your bar's center anchor, point the anchor at this plugin — otherwise the center section loses its pinned layout:

jq '.bar.centerAnchor = "samirpokharel.patro-clock"' ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json > /tmp/s \
  && mv /tmp/s ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json

Devanagari comes from noto-fonts, which Omarchy already installs. JetBrains Mono has no Devanagari coverage, so the Nepali view asks for Noto Sans Devanagari by name.

Removing it

omarchy plugin remove samirpokharel.patro-clock
omarchy plugin enable omarchy.clock

If you repointed the bar's center anchor during install, point it back:

jq '.bar.centerAnchor = "omarchy.clock"' ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json > /tmp/s \
  && mv /tmp/s ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json

The plugin writes only its own entry in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json, and only when you change one of its settings, so removing it leaves nothing else behind.

Using it


Two-finger horizontal swipe	switch calendar
`n`	switch calendar
Vertical scroll	step the month
`←` `→` or `[` `]`	step the month
`↑` `↓` or `{` `}`	step the year
`t` or click the hero	back to today
`w` or click the `W` heading	week start (Gregorian view only)
Left click the bar label	open the calendar
Right click the bar label	cycle the label format
Middle click the bar label	timezone picker
Double-tap the year rail	memento mori — set a birth year

Optional hotkey, in ~/.config/hypr/bindings.conf:

bindd = SUPER SHIFT, C, Patro Clock, exec, omarchy-shell samirpokharel.patro-clock toggle
bindd = SUPER SHIFT, N, Switch calendar, exec, omarchy-shell samirpokharel.patro-clock toggleCalendar

toggleCalendar works whether or not the popup is open, which makes it a decent fallback if the swipe does not suit your touchpad.

Settings

Under Setup › Plugins, or directly in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json.

Key		Default
`calendarSystem`	`bikram`, `gregorian`	`bikram`
`format`	Qt format for the bar label; `ww` becomes the ISO week	`dddd HH:mm`
`formatAlt`	second format in the right-click ring	`d MMMM 'W'ww yyyy`
`verticalFormat`	used when the bar is vertical	`HH\n—\nmm`
`weekStartDay`	`sunday`, `monday`; unset follows the locale	unset
`swipeThreshold`	sideways travel that counts as one swipe	`120`
`birthYear`	`0` hides the memento-mori bar	`0`
`lifeExpectancy`	years, only used with a birth year	`90`

If the swipe feels wrong, swipeThreshold is the knob. Touchpads differ wildly in how much scroll delta they report per gesture: raise it if the calendar flips too eagerly, lower it if a full swipe does nothing.

Notes on the Nepali view

The week starts on Sunday and Saturday is the weekend, as a wall patro prints it. The week-start toggle is inert here, because a patro has no such choice to offer.
Month and weekday names are the colloquial forms — भदौ, not भाद्र; साउन, not श्रावण.
The week gutter counts the year in sevens from 1 Baisakh. Bikram Sambat has no ISO-week equivalent, so this is plainly "which seven-day block of the year is this" rather than a standard.
Dates are covered for 2000–2090 BS. Month lengths are published rather than derived (see NOTICE.md), so 2084 onward is provisional and the chevrons go inert at the ends of the table rather than inventing months.

Not yet

The bar label is always Gregorian. Switching the calendar changes the popup, not the label. Rendering a Bikram Sambat date in the bar needs its own format vocabulary, which is a separate piece of work.
No tithi, no holidays. If you want the lunar day, Ekadashi/Purnima marks and a BS↔AD converter, yogeshojha/patro is a standalone bar widget that does all of that well.

Development

node tests/bikram.test.js      # or: npm test
omarchy-plugin-validate .

Two things about hacking on this that will otherwise cost you an afternoon:

Editing Panel.qml needs a full shell restart. Omarchy logs Local plugin changed, reloading, but a file loaded through Loader { source: Qt.resolvedUrl(...) } keeps serving Qt's cached compilation. Your edit appears to do nothing, with no error. Run omarchy-restart-shell.
qmllint is useless here — it cannot resolve the qs.* imports and will pass a file with a deliberate typo in it. Use qmlformat <file> >/dev/null as a syntax check and read real errors from quickshell -p /usr/share/omarchy/shell log. Note the -p: plain quickshell log cannot find the running instance.

Credits

Built on Omarchy's built-in clock and on the Bikram Sambat table from yogeshojha/patro, both MIT. See NOTICE.md for exactly what came from where.

MIT licensed.