Omarchy is unapologetically terminal-first. Master these three layers and you’ll fly.

1) Alacritty — fast, GPU-accelerated

Config: ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml (theme-managed, but you can override):

[font]
size = 11.5
normal = { family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font" }

[window]
opacity = 0.96
padding = { x = 12, y = 12 }

Omarchy sets GDK_SCALE + Hyprland scaling so fonts stay crisp on HiDPI.

2) Starship — the prompt

Edit ~/.config/starship.toml:

format = "$directory$git_branch$git_status$cmd_duration$line_break$character"
[directory]
truncation_length = 3
[git_branch]
symbol = " "

Preview: starship prompt --profile default.

3) Shell — zsh with omarchy plugins

~/.zshrc sources $OMARCHY_PATH/shell/*. Add:

# fzf + zoxide + eza + ripgrep — all preinstalled or one pkg away
eval "$(fzf --zsh)"
eval "$(zoxide init zsh)"
alias ls="eza --icons --group-directories-first"
alias grep="rg"

Omarchy shell functions

See Shell Functions manual:

omarchy functions list
mkcd ~/src/myapp   # mkdir + cd
take notes/today   # mkcd + nvim

TUIs you should know

Launch any via Super+Space.

Productivity combo

Try this loop for a week:

1. zoxide → z proj jumps to any project
2. Ctrl+R → fzf history
3. rg "TODO" -n → quick grep
4. nvim $(fzf) → open anything

You’ll rarely touch the mouse.

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