Chapters
  1. Welcome to Omarchy!
  2. Getting Started
  3. Coming From Mac or Windows
  4. Navigation
  5. The Top Bar
  6. Themes
  7. Hotkeys
  8. Unified Clipboard & History
  9. Reminders
  10. Notices
  11. Text Extraction & Dictation
  12. Screenshots & Recording
  13. Toggles, Idle & the Screensaver
  14. Omarchy CLI
  15. Terminal
  16. Neovim
  17. AI
  18. Development Tools
  19. Shell Tools
  20. Shell Functions
  21. TUIs
  22. GUIs
  23. Browsers
  24. Commercial apps/services
  25. Web Apps
  26. Gaming
  27. Filling out PDFs
  28. Windows VM
  29. Other Packages
  30. Updates
  31. Dotfiles
  32. Shell Plugins
  33. Monitors
  34. Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad
  35. Networking
  36. System sleep
  37. Hardware authentication
  38. Fonts
  39. Backgrounds
  40. Prompt
  41. Branding
  42. Common tweaks
  43. Making your own theme
  44. Mac support
  45. Troubleshooting
  46. FAQ
  47. System snapshots
  48. Security
  49. Omarchy on...
  50. Dual Boot Install
  51. Unattended Installs

System snapshots

We create snapshots automatically on every Omarchy update, but should you want to create your own, you can use omarchy-snapshot create.

To boot and restore a snapshot, you select it from the Limine boot loader. (If you’re currently booting straight into the Omarchy decryption screen, you’ll need to select Limine as a boot option via the BIOS first).

From that screen, choose the snapshot you’d like to boot into based on the date and version. The version of Omarchy at the time of the snapshot can be seen at the bottom left corner.

snapshots-bootloader

When you arrive inside, a notification will popup notifying you that you’re in a bootable snapshot and if you click it, will start the restoration process. Alternatively, you can utilize omarchy-snapshot restore.

snapshots-restore

This will restore your root filesystem, but not your /home. So it works for reverting a broken system update, but not for recovering lost personal files.

This also means that your ~/.config directory is kept as-is. So if you’re rolling back to an earlier version of a library or application that stores configuration files in a new format, you’ll have to sort that out manually.

Note: This feature is only available on installations using the Limine boot loader, which has been the default since Omarchy 2.0. It’s not available if you’re on GRUB or systemd-boot.

Skipping the boot menu

If you never touch the boot menu and just want the machine to go straight to the decryption screen, run Setup > Direct Boot in the Omarchy menu. That adds an EFI entry pointing directly at Omarchy, so the firmware boots it without stopping at Limine.

The trade-off is the one mentioned at the top: with direct boot on, getting to a snapshot means picking Limine from your BIOS boot menu first. Run Setup > Direct Boot again to remove the entry and go back to booting through Limine. Some firmware doesn’t take kindly to custom EFI entries, so the setup refuses to run on American Megatrends and Apple firmware.