CommandDeck v0.1.0-preview.2

The second preview of CommandDeck, a keyboard-first command palette and
launcher for Omarchy and Hyprland. This release makes the launcher open
at once, adds a shortcut editor and a searchable Settings, and installs the
hotkey on Omarchy 4.5.

Note

This is a preview. Expect rough edges, and please
report problems. The
extension SDK and the standalone Hyprland host are experimental.

What's new

Opens at once

• The launcher's surface stays ready while it is closed. In our measurements,
  on an idle desktop with software rendering, the launcher submits its first
  frame, with the card and its Home results, about 6 ms after Hyprland
  dispatches the shortcut. The search field has the keyboard after about 9 ms,
  and the results can run after about 51 ms (medians). See
  the timing details.
• Home results are found while the launcher is closed, so they are in the
  first frame. Until the search made after the open finishes, a row found
  while closed runs nothing.
• The open fade is gone. The hotkey module also turns off Hyprland's fade for
  CommandDeck's windows.
• Typing is faster: a search starts 16 ms after an edit, and the daemon starts
  faster with many indexed folders.
• Window and workspace results come from Hyprland's socket directly, without
  starting hyprctl.

Change your shortcuts

• Settings → Shortcuts lists CommandDeck's shortcuts and your Hyprland
  bindings together. Type a key, such as super+q, to find what it does.
  Click a shortcut and press new keys to record it. When another binding uses
  those keys, choose Replace or Cancel. ↺ restores a change.
• A binding stays read-only when CommandDeck can't change it safely, for
  example one that loads after CommandDeck's module or only under a condition,
  one in a submap, or one that is not a plain binding call. Its info button
  names the file to change instead.
• From the launcher, Alt+K changes or adds the shortcut of the selected
  row. A row with a Hyprland shortcut shows it, and apps and commands offer
  Copy Hyprland Binding.

Settings, found

• Type a setting's name in the launcher, such as reduce motion, and
  Enter opens Settings at that control.
• Settings has a search field, grouped pages with icons, compact controls, an
  interface font choice, and a Diagnostics page with the version, socket,
  index state, and recent search times. Copy debug info copies it for a
  bug report.

Search

• Typos are fine: fierf still finds Firefox.
• After =, the calculator accepts thousands separators, such as = 1,000 * 1.2.
• Enter switches to an app that is already open. Shift+Enter opens a new
  window.
• Ctrl+L shows your search, or a calculator answer, in Large Type.
• Drag a file row into a terminal, browser, or chat.
• Type an address such as github.com/devmobasa to open it, or choose
  Save as Quicklink….
• agents: lists every Herdr agent, blocked ones first. In a Herdr space, a
  name that no tab has offers Create tab.
• Desktop controls name the next step: Mute or Unmute, Turn Wi-Fi
  Off, Enter Fullscreen.
• The launcher follows Hyprland's rounding, so rounding = 0 gives square
  corners.

Fixes

• commanddeck hotkey install now installs Ctrl+Space on Omarchy 4.5, which
  binds that key in its default bindings. CommandDeck takes the key over from
  that default. Your own bindings on the key are kept next to the launcher, or
  the install stops and tells you which file to change.
• New extension projects build with later .NET SDK 10.0.4xx patches.
• Fixes for editor launches, Run shortcuts, index pause and resume, saved
  shortcuts on reinstall, and focus in Settings dialogs, assistant answers,
  wheel scrolling, and Large Type.
• Stricter socket peer checks, archive limits, and process deadlines.

Requirements

• Omarchy with shell plugins on Hyprland, a systemd user session, jq, icu,
  and glibc 2.39 or later.
• Builds for linux-x64 and linux-arm64. The linux-arm64 build is built
  and smoke-tested on an ARM64 runner, but installed desktop use on ARM64 is
  not tested yet, so please report what you find.

Known issues

• The assistant's answer can appear in the launcher a few seconds after the
  assistant has finished, and the footer can keep showing "Asking Codex…"
  afterwards.

Install (no .NET needed)

Run these commands in your Omarchy session. On an ARM computer, use
linux-arm64 instead of linux-x64.

curl -fLO https://github.com/devmobasa/CommandDeck/releases/download/v0.1.0-preview.2/commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.2-linux-x64.tar.gz
curl -fLO https://github.com/devmobasa/CommandDeck/releases/download/v0.1.0-preview.2/commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.2-linux-x64.tar.gz.sha256
sha256sum -c commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.2-linux-x64.tar.gz.sha256
tar -xzf commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.2-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.2-linux-x64
./install.sh

The installer needs Omarchy with shell plugins on Hyprland, a systemd
user session, jq, icu, and glibc 2.39 or later. Run
./install.sh --dry-run first to check them. It changes nothing.

To update, install the new release in the same way. Your configuration
is kept. The installation guide
tells how to uninstall.

What's Changed

• Build extensions with the patched .NET 10 SDK by @devmobasa in #2
• Time the launcher from the shortcut to the complete card by @devmobasa in #1
• Show the launcher card at once when it opens by @devmobasa in #3
• Keep the window's shown state apart from its mapping by @devmobasa in #4
• Keep the launcher surface mapped between opens by @devmobasa in #5
• Show Home results at once when the launcher opens by @devmobasa in #6
• Let new extension projects build with later SDK patches by @devmobasa in #7
• Wait for the next frame's layout before revealing a settings card by @devmobasa in #8
• Read windows and workspaces through Hyprland's socket by @devmobasa in #9
• Install the hotkey over Omarchy's conditional default bindings by @devmobasa in #10
• Prepare the v0.1.0-preview.2 release by @devmobasa in #11

New Contributors

• @devmobasa made their first contribution in #2

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-preview.1...v0.1.0-preview.2

CommandDeck v0.1.0-preview.1

The first public preview of CommandDeck, a keyboard-first command palette
and launcher for Omarchy and Hyprland. Press Ctrl+Space, type, and act.

Note

This is a preview. Expect rough edges, and please
report problems. The
extension SDK and the standalone Hyprland host are experimental.

What's in this release

One search for the desktop

• Find apps, files and file text, Hyprland config keys, windows and workspaces,
  Omarchy menu actions, user services and timers, your processes, desktop
  controls, projects, snippets, quicklinks, time zones, emoji, and web search.
  PDF and document text is searched when pdftotext or pandoc is installed
  and you turn it on.
• A prefix limits the search to one source: app:, file:, text:, cfg:,
  oma:, win:, ws:, herdr:, htab:, clip:, snip:, proj:, ctl:,
  kill:, svc:, link:, web:, tz:, emoji:, ai:, hey:, browse:,
  and script:. Combine and exclude them, for example
  file: app: roadmap -workspaces:. Press ? to see them all.
• Top Matches come first, then results grouped by source. Ranking learns from
  what you open, on your computer only, and you can turn that off. Mark
  favorites, give results aliases, hide results, save searches with their own
  shortcut, and add filter aliases. Why this result? explains the order.

Made for Omarchy and Hyprland

• The launcher uses the colors of the active Omarchy theme.
• oma: searches Omarchy's whole menu. Submenus open in place, and toggles show
  their current state.
• Hyprland and Omarchy config keys open in your editor at their file and line.
  Choose a graphical or a terminal editor in Settings.
• Windows and workspaces are searchable, with optional previews.
• Herdr: herdr: finds spaces and tabs,
  htab: finds tabs and shows which agent tabs need attention, and Enter jumps
  there.

Calculator

• Type 100 * 5, 100 km to miles, 100 usd to eur (daily ECB rates), or
  days until 11 sep. The result appears as you type, without a prefix.
• Start with = for the full calculator. Enter copies the result.

Do things, not only open them

• > runs any program without a shell, for example > htop.
• Ctrl+K shows the actions for a result. Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 run a
  numbered result.
• Desktop controls: volume, media keys, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the color picker, and
  window placement such as left half (ctl:).
• kill: lists your processes, largest first. Terminate or force kill one after
  you confirm.
• svc: lists your user services and timers: show the status and recent logs,
  start, stop, or restart a unit after you confirm, or edit it.
• Snippets and templates with named inputs, script commands from
  *.commanddeck.json manifests with their output shown in the launcher,
  browse: for folder navigation, and commanddeck pick, a picker for your own
  scripts.
• Clipboard history, off until you turn it on: text, links, images, and files,
  with pins and keywords.
• HEY mail search and triage with hey:, when the HEY command line tool is
  installed.

Optional AI, off until you turn it on

• Direct providers: Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Before anything
  is sent, CommandDeck shows the exact request and asks you to confirm it.
• Embedded assistant: ai:, codex:, claude:, cursor:, or grok: talks
  to your local Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or Grok command line tool inside the
  launcher. The daemon enforces the trust level that you choose, and tools run
  only after you confirm them.
• Prompt templates, and an optional package helper, installed separately, for
  pacman changes with an exact preview and Polkit authorization.

Settings

• Ctrl+, opens Settings inside the launcher, with six pages that you can
  search: Search, AI, Editors, Filters, Shortcuts, and Customization.
• Display size, panel width and height, compact layout, the preview pane,
  transparency, favorites, and source order apply at once.

Extensions (experimental)

• C# extensions run as separate processes in a Bubblewrap sandbox, with the
  permissions that you grant. The SDK and a test kit are included, and
  commanddeck extensions manages local packages.

Command line

• commanddeck search, suggest, status, doctor, reindex, index,
  catalog, preferences, quicklinks, saved-search, filters, hotkey,
  ai, and pick. commanddeck --help lists every command.

Private and fast

• No telemetry. AI, clipboard history, search history, and extensions stay off
  until you turn them on. Everything is stored on your computer.
• A Native AOT C# daemon keeps an SQLite FTS5 index. In our measurements, the
  window opens in about 25 ms (median, from the shortcut to the visible window).
• commanddeck doctor checks the installation, the hotkey, and the index.

Requirements

• Omarchy with shell plugins on Hyprland, a systemd user session, jq, icu,
  and glibc 2.39 or later.
• Builds for linux-x64 and linux-arm64. This is the first linux-arm64
  build: it is built and smoke-tested in CI, but it has not run on ARM hardware
  yet, so please report what you find.

Known issues

• The assistant's answer can appear in the launcher a few seconds after the
  assistant has finished, and the footer can keep showing "Asking Codex…"
  afterwards.

Install (no .NET needed)

Run these commands in your Omarchy session. On an ARM computer, use
linux-arm64 instead of linux-x64.

curl -fLO https://github.com/devmobasa/CommandDeck/releases/download/v0.1.0-preview.1/commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
curl -fLO https://github.com/devmobasa/CommandDeck/releases/download/v0.1.0-preview.1/commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.1-linux-x64.tar.gz.sha256
sha256sum -c commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.1-linux-x64.tar.gz.sha256
tar -xzf commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd commanddeck-v0.1.0-preview.1-linux-x64
./install.sh

The installer needs Omarchy with shell plugins on Hyprland, a systemd
user session, jq, icu, and glibc 2.39 or later. Run
./install.sh --dry-run first to check them. It changes nothing.

To update, install the new release in the same way. Your configuration
is kept. The installation guide
tells how to uninstall.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/devmobasa/CommandDeck/commits/v0.1.0-preview.1