Skål is our collection of plugins for Omarchy, the Arch Linux desktop we run every day. Each one started as an itch on our own machines, got scratched, and then got polished until it was worth yours. Free, MIT, no catch.
Free · MIT · free as in beer.
Two so farEach one lives in its own repo, installs with a single omarchy command, and configures from a GUI or a text file. Your call which.
The Omarchy bar, tuckable.
The same thin, quiet strip Omarchy ships, now with hidden widget drawers, a native tray, quick actions on the menu trigger, and a settings GUI so none of it requires editing JSON by hand.
Every Claude Code key, one click from the bar.
Swap the model behind Claude Code from your Omarchy bar: keys, endpoints, and whatever models each provider actually serves, with usage bars that tell you which plan you are closest to torching.
By day, Outcrop Labs does AI builds, marketing, and creative work for teams that need to ship. By night, we fiddle with our Linux desktops until they do exactly what we want. Skål is where the good ones end up.
Built for us first
We wanted drawers on the bar. We wanted to swap the model behind Claude Code without unpicking five config values. We scratched, we shipped, and then we kept using them every single day. That is the only quality gate that matters here.
Free as in beer
No accounts, no telemetry, no "pro" tier hiding the good drawers. Install them from the Omarchy plugin list, read every line on GitHub, and if they break you get to keep both pieces (and file an issue).
The boring depth
Hot-reload recovery, per-monitor hotkeys, keyboard-navigable panels, toasts that replace themselves when you rapid-toggle. Nobody notices any of it, which is the point.
Both plugins install from Omarchy's plugin system. The full ceremony (keybinds, config, uninstall) lives on each plugin's page.
$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/outcrop-labs/skal-bar.git --enable --yes$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/outcrop-labs/skal-swap.git --yesRequires Omarchy · everything ships with it that these plugins need.
An opinionated Arch Linux desktop from David Heinemeier Hansson. Hyprland underneath, a quiet status bar up top, and a plugin system for the rest. If you like your desktop fast, calm, and keyboard-first, start at omarchy.org.
It's the Scandinavian toast: you raise a glass, you say skål. We're a Colorado shop with a soft spot for Norse brevity, and naming a plugin family after a cheer felt right. Raise your bar, indeed.
No. Everything here is MIT licensed and free forever. These are passion projects; the only payment we ask is a star on GitHub if a plugin makes your day better.
Probably. The queue has ideas and our desktops keep generating new itches. No roadmap promises, this is a nights-and-weekends thing, but when something earns a permanent spot on our bars it tends to get published.
Yes, open an issue on the plugin repo. No timeline promises, but we read everything, and enough thumbs on an itch makes us scratch it.
Not today. They're built on Omarchy's plugin system and omarchy-shell, which is where the fun is. Porting elsewhere isn't on the list, though the licenses are MIT if you feel inspired.
Omarchy plugin ids read like little domains, and the family falls out nicely: skal.bar for the bar, skal.swap for the switcher. The å sorts to a plain a in ids and URLs, so the plugin is skal.bar even when we write it skål.