omarchy-true-glass
Real glass for Omarchy: the bar, menus, notifications and windows bend the light behind them
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Details
- External ID
- 1411467180
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- omarchy-true-glass
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.08
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop environment and customization software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- glass effect shader and window styling for omarchy
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Implementing a real glass shader effect that refracts background desktop elements in a Linux desktop environment/compositor requires deep low-level graphics and Wayland compositor shader pipeline knowledge.
What it would actually take: This requires modifying or writing plugins for Wayland compositors (like Hyprland, Sway, or wlroots-based compositors) using C/C++ and GLSL shaders. The hard part is efficiently sampling the background buffer texture underneath specific window surfaces to calculate real-time optical refraction, chromatic aberration, and blur without severe frame drops or latency. It requires deep expertise in Linux graphics subsystems, Wayland protocols, and GPU shader programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 153 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #141 of 154 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 327 days after the earliest competitor.
- omarchy-liquid-glass · github · 2026-09-25 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- omarchy-spaces · github · 2026-09-25 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- omarchy-lacquer · github · 2026-09-14 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- omarchy-coffee-theme · github · 2026-09-19 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- omarchy-retro-arcade · github · 2026-09-11 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- omarchy-ring-light-plugin · github · 2026-09-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- omarchy-dynamic-island · github · 2026-09-29 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- WandelBar · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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