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Themes

24 stories filed under Themes.

1. Friday, 30 October 2026

   Generated VS Code theme draws inline code on a muted fill

   A change merged into quattro draws inline code in the generated VS Code theme as foreground on a muted fill, where it had been cyan on the bare editor background.

2. Friday, 30 October 2026

   List hover in VS Code uses the accent at 20% opacity

   A change merged into quattro uses the theme accent color at 20% opacity for the VS Code list hover, which used the same color as the list background, so the hovered item could not be seen.

3. Thursday, 29 October 2026

   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.

4. Thursday, 29 October 2026

   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.

5. Monday, 26 October 2026

   Jade Horse replaces the bundled Osaka Jade theme

   A change merged into quattro replaces the bundled Osaka Jade theme with Jade Horse, a jade green Year of the Horse theme. Anyone currently on Osaka Jade keeps their staged copy, and nothing switches their theme.

6. Sunday, 25 October 2026 · In brief

   Jade theme celebrates the year of the horse

   David Heinemeier Hansson shared a jade theme to celebrate the year of the horse, and linked the repository.

7. Sunday, 25 October 2026 · In brief

   Nebula is a new variant of the Ethereal theme

   Bjarne Øverli said a new variant of the Omarchy Ethereal theme has been made, called Nebula. He also said he made it as an unreleased game. In a reply he linked the theme repository.

8. Sunday, 25 October 2026 · In brief

   Roadster under the Milky Way is an Ethereal background

   A background merged into quattro puts a roadster under the Milky Way in the Ethereal theme. The image was contributed by tcballard.

9. Thursday, 22 October 2026 · In brief

   Six-line pull request for black NVIDIA video

   Randy said OWE pull request 14, in six lines, is the change for a black Omarchy video background on an NVIDIA GPU, and that it falls back to stock OWE on the next update, in a post.

10. Sunday, 18 October 2026

    Tokyo Night keeps a renamed background pick in quattro

    Pull request 15767, merged into quattro, moves a Tokyo Night background pick to the background with the same name under another number. On an upgrade from 4.0.x, a renumbered pick points at a missing file and the desktop falls back to Liftoff, including at 4.5.

11. Sunday, 18 October 2026 · In brief

    Detent is a launcher based on Omarchy themes

    Bjarne Øverli introduced Detent, a launcher based on Omarchy themes, in this post, and linked the Detent repository in a follow-up.

12. Wednesday, 14 October 2026

    Soft theme intros are redrawn onto their wallpapers

    Pull request 14567, merged into quattro, redraws soft theme intros so each clip opens on its scene and lands on the wallpaper's own pixels. The Omarchy account said the intros are coming. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

13. Wednesday, 14 October 2026 · In brief

    A Starship launch is planned as the next default background

    The Omarchy account said the next release will use a Tokyo Night version of a Starship launch as its default background.

14. Tuesday, 13 October 2026

    Theme switches return before the slow retints

    Theme switches in pull request 15045, merged into quattro, return without waiting out the slowest app retint. pull request 15040 sends tmux its colors in one pass. Neither merge is in version 4.0.4.

15. Monday, 12 October 2026

    A theme intro, in this merge, passes the new wallpaper to the shell

    Pull request 15000 merges a theme switch that passes the new still to the shell when an intro plays, after a switch could leave a black desktop. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

16. Sunday, 11 October 2026 · In brief

    Default theme previews share one four-window layout in the merged themes

    Pull request 14944 merges new previews for 23 default themes, each a four-window desktop at 2560 by 1440. David Heinemeier Hansson wrote that the files shrank from 9.02 MiB to 5.55 MiB. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

17. Saturday, 10 October 2026

    Extra themes leave the picker through Delete in the merged shell

    Pull request 14713 merges a Delete key in the theme picker that removes an extra theme after confirmation. Stock themes and the background picker ignore that key. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

18. Saturday, 10 October 2026

    Wallpaper links that name a missing JPEG or PNG point at WebP in a merged migration

    Pull request 14603 merges a migration that points a wallpaper choice at the WebP file when the old JPEG or PNG is gone. A dangling link had left a black background. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

19. Saturday, 10 October 2026 · In brief

    Starship is a default theme in the merge, with four launch backgrounds

    Pull request 14705 merges Starship as a default theme, with backgrounds named Starbase, Flight 14 at dawn, Engine cluster, and Morning pad. David Heinemeier Hansson wrote that together they are about 2.3 MB. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

20. Thursday, 8 October 2026

    Omarchy merges silent background intros at login and on a theme change

    Pull request 9639 merges 71 silent video intros that play at login and when the theme changes, then return to the still background. In the merged change, turning animations off disables them.

21. Wednesday, 7 October 2026 · In brief

    A core team member publishes a collection of Omarchy themes

    Bjarne Øverli, of the core team, published a collection of Omarchy themes he had not released before, and posted the repository and the site.

22. Monday, 5 October 2026 · In brief

    New coffee themes for Omarchy

    Bjarne Øverli, of the core team, published new coffee themes for Omarchy in this post. He linked the collection at Coffee Themes.

23. Sunday, 4 October 2026

    The image picker stays responsive, and sharp on dense screens

    Omarchy's image picker no longer builds a card for every theme, and its previews stay sharp on high-density screens. Pull request 14117 and 14156 merged into quattro.

24. Friday, 2 October 2026 · In brief · Corrected

    An Omarchy theme pack reaches 500 variations

    An extended edition of Bjarne Øverli's 100 Omarchy themes offers 500 variations in five flavors, including high-contrast variants for accessibility, he said.