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63 points theYipster | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 05:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source

An install script to create a strong and stable blend of Omarchy on top of CachyOS. You must install CachyOS first (please read the README file.)

Feedback and contributions welcome!

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ikurei ◴[15 Sep 25 06:55 UTC] No.45246862[source]▶
The main thing keeping me from trying out Omarchy is the pain of setting up multiple displays. I haven't tried Hyprland, but whenever I've tried a non-mainstream desktop/wm in Linux that was the worst, especially if your setup changes often (as in, you have a laptop and move around and plug it in different places).

May be that just means I'm not enough of a tinkerer for these setups.

Is it a hard problem to remember more than one configuration and link them to the displays connected to your computer? Or is it just that Omarchy users really don't mind editing monitor.conf[1] often?

[1]: https://learn.omacom.io/books/2/pages/86

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1. jchw ◴[15 Sep 25 11:55 UTC] No.45248615[source]▶
Since Hyprland still supports wlr-output-management (AFAIK) you can use tools like wlr-randr and nwg-displays. I don't use Hyprland but I used Sway for many years and support for multiple outputs was top notch. You did have to edit your text-based Sway config file, since a major part of the draw for Sway was an i3-like mantra, but you could do declarative configuration for both output and input devices, and it worked well with hot plugging. Combined with handling mixed DPI setups better, the general situation feels a lot better for using multiple monitors with Linux these days.

Editing a text file to configure displays is definitely an acquired taste, though. Maybe Omarchy needs some utilities to provide a UI around those config files.