Jason Alexander’s Omarchy Control puts your settings behind one search box, and it’s ready for testers
Displays, sound, Wi-Fi, themes, power and more in one native Qt app, with every change checked, undoable where possible, and a watchdog that rolls back a bad monitor layout.
Image: last-refuge/omarchy-control README (GitHub)
Omarchy has a new control panel to try. Jason Alexander wrote on X on November 6, 2026 that “Omarchy Control Panel is out for testing and feedback!”, quoting his own post with an install line, a link to the Omarchy Control repository on GitHub and a simple invitation: “PRs, requests and bugs welcome!”
It comes from Last Refuge, the GitHub organization where Jason has been rebuilding the everyday apps he missed after leaving macOS. This time it’s a settings app: one searchable place to understand your Omarchy computer, change its settings and reach the right tool.
According to the README, Omarchy Control is a native Qt 6 app that “puts your settings behind one search box”. It follows your Omarchy theme and language live, works entirely from the keyboard (Ctrl+K to search, Ctrl+Z to undo), and reuses Omarchy’s own commands rather than reinventing them. Themes, backgrounds and icon packs show up as tiles instead of filenames, next to fonts, the bar and dock, idle timers, power profiles, input, DNS, sound routing, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Anything it doesn’t handle itself is one search away, handed off to the right Omarchy panel, app or config file.
The README puts its coverage at 98 native settings and pages, 22 Omarchy panels, 334 guided routes, 19 specialist apps and 22 config files, and says every public Omarchy command and menu row in the 4.5 inventory either has a destination or a recorded reason for being left out.
The big selling point is safety. Every change is backed up first, then verified by reading the value back, and a failed check restores the previous file. Undo is only offered when the old value can really be set again. Hyprland overrides live in a single file, ~/.config/hypr/omarchy-control.lua, and the first Hyprland change asks before adding one marked line to hyprland.lua. Display changes run under a separate watchdog process that brings back the previous layout unless you choose to keep the new one, and the arrangement editor stays locked until omarchy-control selftest display has passed on your machine.
There’s a command line too. omarchy-control can search, get, plan and apply settings, list history and undo, and the README says agents and scripts get the same validation and journal as the window, with --json on every command.
This is early software, and the README says so plainly. Version 0.1.3 is built against Omarchy 4.5 and Hyprland 0.56. According to the README, 50 of 65 writable settings have been verified against real Hyprland and real Omarchy scripts in an isolated nested session, and every setting reads correctly on real hardware, but “the checklist of changes on a real desktop session is still open”. The project also describes itself as “an independent project and is not an official part of Omarchy”.
To try it, the README offers curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/last-refuge/omarchy-control/main/install.sh | bash, which downloads the prebuilt x86_64 package from GitHub Releases, checks it against the release checksums and hands it to pacman, which asks before installing. The README is upfront that those checksums guard against a corrupted download, not against a compromised GitHub account, and that the installer is one short script you can read first. Then run omarchy-control open, or omarchy-control integrate menu to add it to the Omarchy menu.
