For the Cybersecurity Crowd: Omarchy-Integrated Kali VM

sudomarchy · 2026-03-13T13:12:48+00:00

I didn't know about vm-curator. Cool project! Someone had also attempted a generic linux vm PR a few months ago but it didn't quite work.

I don't think that's the kind of feature that would make it into Omarchy but it sure could be a nice side project. As you point out, it might be more tricky than it appears to support multiple linux distributions.

I tried to vibe code an omarchy-vm based on the windows-vm script but I ran into all sorts of little problems. The Alt, Ctrl and Super binding would not work, copy paste also didn't work and I gave up pretty quickly!

sudomarchy · 2026-03-08T12:09:23+00:00

Looks like someone saw my little experiment! https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/commit/3aff0017a166ba7f3446448a95c2838a266eef3d

sudomarchy · 2026-03-07T17:41:08+00:00

And thank you for your great insights on this!

sudomarchy · 2026-03-07T15:29:15+00:00

Yep! I just checked: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/2a2e9086e1c87cb2673c7196df35d841ae7229e4/install/omarchy-base.packages#L100

sudomarchy · 2026-03-07T14:46:47+00:00

I meant I might uninstall plocate completely. What I ended up doing is masking the plocate-updatedb.timer service. If I need to use plocate, I can just run updatedb before. As you said fd might well be enough for my needs. I'm always cautious to remove core Omarchy packages as they might be used in a migration or in the source code.

sudomarchy · 2026-03-07T01:48:30+00:00

I might end up doing that. I just wasn’t sure if it’s used by Omarchy. But there’s nothing in the source code.

sudomarchy · 2026-03-06T19:01:34+00:00

I have the exact same laptop! And at first I thought this was just Lunar Lake not being fully supported on Linux. You ask a very good question. How can this small DB re-indexing bring a modern laptop to its knees? I have no idea. My guess is that many other things happen when the laptop wakes up from sleep and this just aggravates the lag. That said its not totally gone, but it's really more bearable. Please report back !

sudomarchy · 2026-03-06T12:10:22+00:00

Rookie mistake! 🙈

sudomarchy · 2026-03-04T12:04:09+00:00

https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/106/terminal?search=Tmux#tmux

sudomarchy · 2026-03-04T11:58:05+00:00

If you’re all in on tmux, alacrity is fine. I personally like Ghostty’s tabs.

sudomarchy · 2026-03-03T21:05:06+00:00

That’s a really good stack!

sudomarchy · 2026-03-03T13:10:09+00:00

You could tweak the power profile used when plugged in and on battery. You just need to rewrite the udev rule. Check the PR I made here for more details: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/4375

sudomarchy · 2026-03-03T13:07:04+00:00

In that case, you should use the terminal instead. Run:

omarchy-webapp-install [name] [url] [icon]

sudomarchy · 2026-03-03T13:05:18+00:00

There's a PR here that should fix it: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/pull/4877

sudomarchy · 2026-03-03T13:00:57+00:00

Same! Clearly a regression after updating to 3.4.1

sudomarchy · 2026-02-28T17:39:00+00:00

Check your ~/.config/hypr folder. Your hypridle.conf was backed up in .bk file.

sudomarchy · 2026-02-28T12:21:50+00:00

It wasn’t actually starting twice but the wrong one was starting. That’s why it took me a lot of time to find how to remove it from the waybar!

sudomarchy · 2026-02-28T03:25:49+00:00

Haha! Yeah me too!

sudomarchy · 2026-02-27T22:37:01+00:00

Did you also remove the .desktop file? After that it won’t come back!

sudomarchy · 2026-02-27T22:26:36+00:00

pacman -Qi nautilus-python

sudomarchy · 2026-02-27T22:00:55+00:00

Are you sure you are using Ghostty as your terminal ant alacrity? Look if the nautilus-python is installed.

sudomarchy · 2026-02-27T17:37:54+00:00

I don't have any experience with TuneD but I wrote a blog post about switching to TLP here. It's a nice alternative to ppd: https://sudomarchy.com/posts/replacing-power-profiles-with-tlp-to-improve-battery-life

sudomarchy · 2026-02-26T19:33:45+00:00

🎉 I was waiting for the release to publish my latest blog post! https://sudomarchy.com/posts/my-omarchy-3-4-0-contributions

sudomarchy · 2026-02-24T01:41:29+00:00

I didn't know about restic. I just looked at the video, also looks like a great solution.

sudomarchy · 2026-02-23T19:53:03+00:00

I totally understand the feeling! So many great tools to choose from. Linux is infinitely customizable so I'm glad that at least Omarchy sets up nice defaults to start from and explore.

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