Gliff brings tabbed remote desktop over SSH to Omarchy, planned for RS 4.5
DHH says Gliff, a new remote desktop for Hyprland from the Omarchy team, will be part of RS 4.5. Here’s what it does.
Screenshot: omacom/gliff on GitHub
Omarchy has a new official tool in the works: Gliff, a remote desktop for Hyprland. In an X post on October 9, 2026, DHH wrote that Gliff “will give you access to all your remote Omarchy boxes from a single app with tabs per server that streams over SSH using GPU acceleration,” adding that it “will be part of RS 4.5.”
The gliff repository on the omacom GitHub organization describes it as showing the Hyprland session of another machine in a window on yours. All it needs between the two is SSH: no open ports, no accounts and no relay.
A key focus is sharp text. According to the README, most remote desktops send video with halved colour resolution, which blurs coloured text, while Gliff sends full-resolution 4:4:4 colour through the H.264 hardware found in GPUs. Video runs on the GPU at both ends and falls back to the CPU where it can’t.
You can mirror any screen of the remote machine or get a private screen that exists only for your session and resizes with your window. The README also lists your own keyboard layout on both ends, a two-way clipboard for text, images and copied files, quality that adapts to the link, automatic reconnection and a window that follows your Omarchy theme.
Every machine you connect to gets a tab in the title bar, and each connection keeps running while you look at another, so switching is instant. While the pointer is over the remote picture, all keystrokes go to the remote machine; Shift+Esc gives your shortcuts back.
Gliff needs Hyprland on both machines and SSH access to the remote one. GPU video requires an AMD or Intel GPU with Vulkan and VA-API drivers; on NVIDIA and other machines it uses the CPU. The repository documents an install from the Omarchy Package Repository with omarchy pkg add gliff, but DHH presents it as part of the upcoming RS 4.5, so treat it as a preview for now.
The project is written in Rust and released under the MIT license. DHH’s announcement drew more than 2,000 likes at the time of writing.
Source: https://github.com/omacom/gliff
