The next Omarchy pins Hype, Monologue and Cliamp in the dock instead of Chrome, foot, X and YouTube
DHH swapped the default pins for what his pull request calls Omarchy’s own apps, and the new Browser and Terminal entries follow whatever defaults you pick.
Image: DHH (omacom/omarchy, GitHub)
The dock that arrived with Omarchy’s traditional desktop mode is getting a new default lineup. In a pull request merged on November 12, 2026, DHH changed the pinned apps to Folio, Browser, Terminal, Omacalc, Omawrite, Hype, Monologue and Cliamp. It’s coming in the next version of Omarchy.
“New installs now start with the dock pinned to Folio, Browser, Terminal, Omacalc, Omawrite, Hype, Monologue and Cliamp, replacing Google Chrome, foot, X and YouTube,” the pull request says. DHH titled it “Pin Omarchy’s own apps in the default dock”.
It’s a single-file change to config/omarchy/shell.json. In the pinned list under dock, google-chrome and foot become omarchy-browser and omarchy-terminal, X and YouTube are gone, and hype, monologue and cliamp join folio, omacalc and omawrite, which were already there.
Browser and Terminal are the clever part. Instead of hard-coding Chrome and foot, they are launcher entries that “open the default browser and terminal, so they follow whatever the user picks,” according to the PR. They were added to the app launcher earlier the same day in PR #18658, which also makes a pinned Terminal or Browser claim the windows it opens, so your terminal and browser don’t show up a second time next to it. Web apps keep their own dock items.
Two of the new pins have already had their own stories here: Hype, Omacom’s Markdown presentation app, and Monologue, the one-key webcam recorder. Cliamp is the TUI music player created by Omarchy Core Team member Bjarne Øverli.
The dock got more polish in the same batch of merges. PR #18660 draws every dock icon at full opacity on a floating workspace, running or not, while an app that is starting still pulses. PR #18674 stops the dock from vanishing for a fraction of a second during a theme switch, and cross-fades its icons when they’re redrawn.
