Use VoxType's Quickshell OSD with Omarchy palette by default

[toorop]

Suggestion

Omarchy places a strong emphasis on visual consistency and polish, but the default VoxType installation currently uses the GTK4 OSD.

On my Omarchy 4.0.2 system, I switched VoxType to:

[osd]
frontend = "quickshell"
palette = "omarchy"
layout = "minimal"

The result is much more beautiful and feels significantly better integrated with the Omarchy desktop. It matches Omarchy's visual language, colors, spacing and overall level of polish much more naturally than the default GTK4 OSD.

It also works much better with a multi-monitor setup. In my testing, the Quickshell OSD follows the monitor associated with the currently focused workspace, whereas the GTK4 OSD always appeared on the monitor positioned at 0x0, even when focus was on another display.

Here is a screenshot of the Quickshell OSD with the Omarchy palette and minimal layout:

Would it be possible to:

• use the Quickshell frontend by default when VoxType is installed through Omarchy;
• enable palette = "omarchy" by default;
• use a minimal layout by default;
• or at least make this the recommended Omarchy configuration?

The GTK4 frontend could remain the fallback for non-Omarchy environments.

[toorop]

Update: I’ve opened a pull request implementing this suggestion:

#9578

It switches the default VoxType OSD to the Quickshell frontend, enables the Omarchy palette and minimal layout, and installs the required Quickshell files automatically.

[felipecpaiva]

Tested this — and found the root cause of why the Quickshell OSD doesn't work out of the box.

Setting frontend = "quickshell" in [osd] fails with:

ERROR: Failed to load configuration
ERROR:   caused by @shell.qml[48:5]: Type VT.StyleLoader unavailable
ERROR:   caused by @voxtype-shared/StyleLoader.qml[-1:-1]: File not found

voxtype-bin's qmldir declares StyleLoader.qml and RecipeRenderer.qml, but neither file ships in the package (/usr/share/voxtype/quickshell/voxtype-shared/). Both files exist fine in upstream VoxType's repo (quickshell/voxtype-shared/) — so this is a packaging gap in the Omarchy voxtype-bin build, not missing upstream.

Confirmed the fix: manually copying those 2 files into place makes the Quickshell OSD load and render correctly with palette = "omarchy" + layout = "minimal". Once the package includes them, this should just work by default as suggested.

[toorop]

Thanks for the investigation. I’m also running a fully updated Omarchy installation:

• Omarchy 4.0.2-1
• voxtype-bin 0.7.5-1

Could the issue be that voxtype setup quickshell has not been run?

I’m asking because on my fully updated Omarchy 4.0.2 system, with voxtype-bin 0.7.5-1, I only ran:

 voxtype setup quickshell

Then I set:

  [osd]
  frontend = "quickshell"
  palette = "omarchy"
  layout = "minimal"

The OSD worked correctly without manually copying any QML files or installing anything else.

Could you confirm whether you ran voxtype setup quickshell, and share:

  voxtype --version
  pacman -Qi voxtype-bin
  cat ~/.local/share/voxtype/quickshell/voxtype-shared/qmldir

Also, did you install VoxType from the standard Omarchy package, or use a development/source build?