Getting Our Hands Dirty With Omarchy

Omarchy has picked up a lot of momentum, and we wanted to see what building for it actually felt like. We spent an afternoon spike making two small web3 plugins and learning the edges of its Quickshell and QML workflow.

The idea was simple and fun: put useful Ethereum activity into the operating system itself. A light client can report verified chain data from the desktop bar. A local agent wallet can expose balances, contacts, simulations, and transactions through the same native interface.

Verified Ethereum in the desktop bar

The Omarchy Helios Viewer connects to a local Helios Ethereum light client. Its keyboard-first dashboard shows recently verified blocks, finality, gas data, and client health without opening a browser.

Building it gave us a quick tour through plugin installation, user services, RPC behavior, and suspend/resume recovery. Quickshell made the visual loop fast. The fiddly parts were keeping service state and desktop state in sync.

An Ethereum wallet playground for local agents

The Agent Wallet plugin puts an Ethereum account and a handful of useful actions inside Omarchy. You can inspect balances, choose a network, save contacts, simulate a transfer, send a transaction, and review activity from the desktop.

Seeing these actions inside the OS feels surprisingly natural. The experiment also surfaced practical questions around agent network permissions, plugin reloads, local helpers, and preserving wallet data when the interface is removed.

A good excuse to build

This sprint gave us hands-on time with a new operating system, a different desktop UI stack, and a couple of Ethereum workflows we wanted to see outside the usual browser app.

Both plugins are open source. Try them, break them, inspect the setup scripts, and tell us what would make native web3 tools more useful on your desktop.

Explore the Omarchy Helios Viewer repository

Explore the Omarchy Agent Wallet repository