Feedback: Thunderbolt dock hotplug resilience and multi-monitor stability

[Darkjasmany]

Hi David,

I wanted to share my experience with Omarchy as a daily-driver full-stack developer. First off, I absolutely love the philosophy, aesthetic, and keyboard-driven flow. It made coding feel incredible, and I genuinely miss it.

I ran Omarchy on a ThinkPad T14 connected to dual external monitors via a Thunderbolt docking station (working exclusively in clamshell mode). Unfortunately, my dock had a subtle hardware issue: micro power drops that saturated the Thunderbolt port.

Here is what I observed from a developer/system perspective:

• Mutter/GNOME (Fedora): Handles momentary DisplayPort/Thunderbolt disconnects gracefully by caching EDID and holding workspace layouts until the signal returns.
• Hyprland/Omarchy: Reacts instantly to the drop by destroying outputs and resetting layout states, making recovery from minor dock flickers very disruptive during the workday.

As a pragmatic decision to protect my daily development throughput, I had to return to Fedora. I didn't leave because I wanted to — I miss Omarchy every day —, but because I needed rock-solid display resilience while working on client deliverables.

I’m sharing this in case display hotplug resilience or fallback handling for Thunderbolt setups is something the project wants to explore or document in the future.

Thanks for building such an inspiring developer experience. I'm keeping a close eye on Omarchy's evolution and hope to be back soon!

Best,
Jasmany