Windows VM for Omarchy: Windows on the bar

A new plugin for Omarchy: Windows VM for Omarchy. If you set up Omarchy’s Windows with omarchy-windows-vm install, you get a small Windows logo on the bar and a panel for everything else:

• At a glance: bright while Windows runs, dim when it is stopped, with the uptime on hover.
• One click to the desktop — it takes you to the open RDP window, connects, or starts Windows, whichever fits right now.
• Restart and shut down with a second confirming click.
• Keep Windows running when RDP closes, so your apps are waiting as you left them — with a reminder of the RAM that stays in use.
• A log for every start and connection, including why an RDP session dropped.
• A web console, the shared folder, help, and commands for Hyprland keybindings.

New in 1.1.0

A few hours after the first release came 1.1.0, with live figures and steadier RDP:

The panel opening: about a second of a waiting message, then the live figures.

• Live figures when you open the panel: CPU, memory, disk, network and uptime, with graphs for CPU and network. With the panel closed nothing is gathered — not even a Docker call.
• Connect without a password: when Windows is running, it opens RDP straight away with the credentials Omarchy saved, and the password never shows in the process list.
• Auto-reconnect: if the connection drops, the RDP window reconnects instead of closing.
• Safer restart and shutdown, failures that show at once, and new buttons for the shared folder, a terminal and lazydocker.

It needs no root and changes nothing in the VM’s setup. It is already available on the Omarchy plugin marketplace, or you can install it directly:

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/Somnius/Windows-VM-for-Omarchy.git --enable

Already installed? omarchy plugin update lef.windows-vm.

How it works inside — from measuring the VM’s resources without any privileges, to keeping the password off the command line — is on the Windows VM for Omarchy page, along with more screens.