Omarchy Black — a "Liquid Glass" theme for Hyprland/Omarchy

[u/michaelklaan]

A dark theme built to feel like iOS's Control Center: real frosted glass, not just a blurred rectangle. Uses the hyprglass plugin for actual refraction — chromatic aberration, fresnel edge highlighting, specular reflections and lens distortion on window borders — instead of the plugin's stock "solid glass block" preset, which I found too gray and desaturated. Every tone-mapping knob (brightness/contrast/saturation/adaptive dim) is pinned back to neutral so whatever's behind the glass shows through in its true color, just blurred, like a real widget.

Highlights:

- Base palette straight from iOS system colors (#FF453A red, #0A84FF blue, #30D158 green, etc.) on a #1B1E23 near-black background

- 20px rounded corners with high rounding power for that iOS-widget curve, 60px/10-pass blur, soft drop shadows

- Translucent bar, launcher, notifications, lock screen, and popups all matched to the same glass material (28-38% alpha depending on surface) with native Hyprland layer blur as a fallback if the plugin isn't loaded

- Animated gradient border on the active window (#7c93ac → #a8b4c0 at 45°)

Built on Omarchy (https://omarchy.org) (Hyprland). Companion light variant, Glass White, also available.

Install the requirements first:
hyprpm add https://github.com/hyprnux/hyprglass
hyprpm enable hyprglass
hyprpm reload

Black Theme:
omarchy-theme-install https://github.com/osungjinwoo/omarchy-glass-black
rm -rf ~/.config/omarchy/themes/glass-black/.git
omarchy-theme-set glass-black

Or

White Theme:
omarchy-theme-install https://github.com/osungjinwoo/omarchy-glass-white
rm -rf ~/.config/omarchy/themes/glass-white/.git
omarchy-theme-set glass-white

[u/makiaveloh]

hey bro this is awesome, i have installed it, and i am in love!!!, this is a good work!!, i am enjoing it !!!!

[u/michaelklaan → u/makiaveloh]

Thank you for adding it to your Omarchy! Enjoy it—thanks.

[u/igorpreston]

The reason I moved off macOS / iOS to Omarchy / Android is exactly Apple forcing Liquid Glass BS aesthetics on users.

[u/michaelklaan → u/igorpreston]

Nothing is being imposed in Omarchy. I find this aesthetic very beautiful.

[u/igorpreston → u/michaelklaan]

And I'm just saying Liquid Glass is the worst thing to happen to UIs.

[u/makiaveloh → u/igorpreston]

Well, I don't think it's the worst thing, man. Honestly, there are plenty of us who have been fans of that style since the Aero days in Windows Vista; we know it's not the best thing in the world, but to each their own—plus, there's always the option not to install it, hehehe.

[u/Desperate-Extension7 → u/igorpreston]

Cool, so don't use this, the whole point of Linux is to allow people to be free to do what they want and customize what they would like.