qDock, qExposé and qCenter bring a Mac-style dock, Exposé and notification center to Omarchy
Three new plugins from Québec Studio target macOS switchers: a Dock with stacks and a trash, Exposé with Alt+Tab previews, and a Notification Center with today’s agenda, all in your theme’s colors.
Image: Québec Studio (omarchy-qdock, GitHub)
Coming to Omarchy from a Mac? Québec Studio has published three plugins that recreate the macOS desktop habits on top of Omarchy: qDock, a Mac-style dock, qExposé, an Exposé and Alt+Tab switcher, and qCenter, a notification center. All three are MIT-licensed, follow your Omarchy theme as you switch it, and speak English and French. According to their changelogs, each shipped 1.0.0 on November 11, 2026 and 1.1.0 on November 12, 2026.
qDock is the centerpiece. According to its README, it takes the place of Omarchy’s built-in dock on floating workspaces, keeps what that dock does (pinned apps, running windows, auto-hide, the app grid) and adds a Files entry where Finder sits on a Mac, a stack of your newest downloads, and a trash at the end that accepts dropped files and empties from its menu. Right-click an app to see its windows, open a new one or quit it. Apps asking for attention bounce, flash or light up, web apps can show unread badges, and optional tiles show what’s playing in any player and the weather from Open-Meteo.
It comes in four styles: Omarchy (opaque, with your theme’s corners and borders, the default), Cupertino (translucent and round like the Mac’s), Redmond (like the Windows taskbar) and Plasma (like KDE’s task manager). A settings window drawn with Omarchy’s own controls covers appearance, behavior, tiles and weather.
qExposé spreads the current workspace’s windows out as live thumbnails, with a Mission Control-style workspace strip you can drop windows onto, type-to-filter, and an Alt+Tab switcher with previews. With qExposé enabled, qDock’s app menu gains a Show All Windows entry that gathers every window of that app across workspaces, minimized ones included.
qCenter is built on Omarchy’s own notifications rather than replacing them. The README says it collects the bubbles that faded on their own or were held back by Do Not Disturb, grouped by app, and adds a Do Not Disturb switch, today’s agenda from Google, Outlook, iCloud, Fastmail or any ICS link with a Join button for Meet, Teams and Zoom calls, and a bell for the bar with the number waiting.
Each plugin installs with one command, for example omarchy plugin add https://github.com/quebecstudio-mods/omarchy-qdock --enable, after Omarchy’s security prompt. A few things to know first: the dock only shows on floating workspaces, so a fresh tiled Omarchy shows nothing until you switch a workspace to floating; any other dock, such as nwg-dock-hyprland, has to be turned off; qExposé’s keys are bound by hand in bindings.lua; and qCenter has nothing to read if you swapped Omarchy’s notifications for mako, swaync or dunst.
