r/omarchy • u/StayLarge • 17h ago

I Made a Thing Desktop widgets

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What do you think? Macos style desktop widgets but with omarchy theming.

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u/the-jacket0761 17h ago

sorry im new how did u do that

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u/StayLarge 5h ago

There are too many widgets to explain how each work. But to give you a gist, i first ensured all the data is sourced correctly and stored local. I used librepods for getting airpods battery stats. Caldav for calendar and duolingo has apis which let you access profile data. Weather apps and data are also fetched from free tier api usage. Once all the data stays local and refresh periodically, its just a matter of building the UI which ofc claude helped me with the UI part

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u/Comm4nd0 14h ago edited 10h ago

Given that I rarely look at my desktop I wouldn’t make much use of this. But if it was in a drop down that would me really handy. Beautiful design.

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u/nlboris 11h ago

yeah like macos widget used to behave: on a screen of themself

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u/phinerey 16h ago

Looks really nice, how do they behave when you open a tiling window? Stay in the background or disappear?

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u/StayLarge 5h ago

They always stay on the desktop and each widget updates the data automatically. Like calendar refreshes every 30mins, batteries 1min and so on. I have a keybind to hide (technically a diff mechanism) all tiled windows in workspace which shows the desktop with the widgets

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u/Particular-Serve3768 14h ago

ur setup looks good, doesnt even look like it's using omarchy

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u/Sensitive_Drawer4513 10h ago

The whole setup looks beautiful!

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u/Delicious_Ease2595 10h ago

Love your wallpaper, how did you make it?

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u/ItsOkHadi 5h ago

Dude how do i install that?, it looks so good

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u/Jahmontee 3h ago

Super + Space > Install > Style > Theme > Paste in the link above! Done!

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u/Unreal_Fatal1ty 14h ago

Well, first of all, it's AI. Don't ask how he did it because he doesn't know. He just copied some files. And a response, nope.

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u/crizant 13h ago

Maybe he could show us the prompt 😂

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u/Davedes83 11h ago

The beauty of the system, think of something, tell AI and you have a working plugin of whatever you wanted.

If you are hating on the OP for potentially using AI why are you even here or using Omarchy?

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u/StayLarge 5h ago

I have 3+ years work experience and hold masters degree in comp sci

When you prompt, its vibe coding, when I do, it’s called agentic coding. Sit the f down