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Wednesday, 28 October 2026 00:00 UTC – Thursday, 29 October 2026 06:00 UTC
An rtkit repair on x86 keeps an install from killing desktop apps
A change merged into quattro installs rtkit on x86, where PipeWire never runs realtime, and repairs a running session so the install itself kills nothing.
Read the story →Surface Pro 11 OLED board setup leaves the kernel alone
A board setup for the Surface Pro 11 OLED, microsoft,denali-oled, merged into quattro leaves the kernel alone, because the installer already puts linux-omarchy on every aarch64 machine.
Monitor scale stays with the focused screen
A change merged into quattro saves a monitor's scale as a rule for the focused screen alone, after other screens had jumped to the same scale. The same save merged into the v4-5-0 branch.
T3 Code theme step creates its mount file before the loop
A change merged into quattro creates the T3 Code mount file empty before a theme loop reads it, so a missing file does not end the install.
Touchpad gestures turn on by default
A change merged into quattro turns on touchpad gestures that had been commented-out examples, including workspace swipes and the Omarchy menu.
Wayland overlay replaces the terminal screensaver
A change merged into quattro replaces the terminal screensaver with the omarchy-screensaver package, a Wayland overlay that any key, click, scroll, or mouse movement dismisses.
Background changes play their intro clip, then the new background
A background change merged into quattro plays its intro clip, then the new background, unless intros or animations are off or the intro is refused. A follow-up merged into quattro fades the clip in, and another moves the sequence into the shell.
Hyprland's default animations ease out within 300ms
A change merged into quattro applies one strong ease-out to Hyprland's default animations, keeps entrances within 250ms, and keeps nothing over 300ms.
Every pull request runs the full test suite in a virtual machine
A change merged into quattro runs the full test suite on every pull request and on every push to quattro, in a virtual machine of the current stable image.
Screen recording toast offers Open and Cut
The screen recording toast merged into quattro offers Open and Cut, matching the yt-dlp download toast, a downloaded video. Cut still opens the recording in Omacut.
Theme install sends intro errors out of the terminal
A change merged into quattro sends a theme install's intro output to /dev/null, after that error printed in the terminal once the command had finished. The boot intro keeps its output.