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Cloning the bar plugin (omarchy plugin clone omarchy.bar) breaks the bar on every monitor

Reported by fallendown · filed Aug 15, 2026Closed upstream on 2026-09-20 by bjarneo via an automated message, as a duplicate of #6915 (R-1851). GitHub close reason: completed.

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Original report

Cloning the bar plugin (omarchy plugin clone omarchy.bar) breaks the bar on every monitorrevision 1 · captured 2026-10-04 12:03 UTC via poll

What happened

Cloning the built-in bar plugin with omarchy plugin clone omarchy.bar produces
a plugin that fails to load, taking the bar down entirely on every monitor
(not just the clone's target monitor).

What I expected

The clone (<user>.bar) should render identically to the stock omarchy.bar it
was copied from, since omarchy plugin clone is the documented way to
customize built-in bar/plugin QML.

Steps to reproduce

omarchy plugin clone omarchy.bar
omarchy restart shell

No edits to the cloned file are needed — even a byte-for-byte unmodified copy
of plugins/bar/Bar.qml reproduces the failure.

Observed behavior

  • omarchy-plugin-list --json reports the clone as "enabled": true, "active": true.
  • hyprctl layers shows no omarchy-bar namespace surface on any monitor —

the bar is completely gone.
- The shell log shows:

  WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[15:3]: Required property omarchyPath was not initialized
  WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[17:3]: Required property barWidgetRegistry was not initialized
  WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[22:3]: Required property barConfig was not initialized
  WARN scene: @shell.qml[256:-1]: ReferenceError: errorString is not defined

The last line looks like a secondary bug in shell.qml's own error-handling
path (referencing errorString instead of the Loader's errorString()),
which masks whatever the real underlying QML load error is.

Workaround

omarchy plugin remove <user>.bar --yes restores the stock omarchy.bar and
the bar reappears on all monitors.

System details

  • Omarchy version: 4.0.0-1
  • Hyprland: 0.56.2 (v0.56.2, commit efb50993)
  • Quickshell: 0.3.0 (AUR quickshell-git, revision 28771c7c)
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070 SUPER (nvidia 610.57.04) + AMD Raphael iGPU (amdgpu)
  • Display: Wayland, 2 monitors (2560x1440 + 1920x1080)
  • Note: omarchy debug --no-sudo --print referenced in the skill docs does not

exist as a command on this Omarchy version (checked omarchy commands --all).

Context this came up in

Trying to make the bar render on only one of two monitors (no monitor
restriction exists in shell.json), which requires cloning the bar plugin per
Omarchy's own customization docs. The clone-loading bug blocks that path
entirely.

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## What happened

Cloning the built-in bar plugin with `omarchy plugin clone omarchy.bar` produces
a plugin that fails to load, taking the bar down entirely on **every** monitor
(not just the clone's target monitor).

## What I expected

The clone (`<user>.bar`) should render identically to the stock `omarchy.bar` it
was copied from, since `omarchy plugin clone` is the documented way to
customize built-in bar/plugin QML.

## Steps to reproduce

```
omarchy plugin clone omarchy.bar
omarchy restart shell
```

No edits to the cloned file are needed — even a byte-for-byte unmodified copy
of `plugins/bar/Bar.qml` reproduces the failure.

## Observed behavior

- `omarchy-plugin-list --json` reports the clone as `"enabled": true, "active": true`.
- `hyprctl layers` shows no `omarchy-bar` namespace surface on any monitor —
  the bar is completely gone.
- The shell log shows:
  ```
  WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[15:3]: Required property omarchyPath was not initialized
  WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[17:3]: Required property barWidgetRegistry was not initialized
  WARN scene: file:///home/<user>/.config/omarchy/plugins/<user>.bar/Bar.qml[22:3]: Required property barConfig was not initialized
  WARN scene: @shell.qml[256:-1]: ReferenceError: errorString is not defined
  ```
  The last line looks like a secondary bug in shell.qml's own error-handling
  path (referencing `errorString` instead of the Loader's `errorString()`),
  which masks whatever the real underlying QML load error is.

## Workaround

`omarchy plugin remove <user>.bar --yes` restores the stock `omarchy.bar` and
the bar reappears on all monitors.

## System details

- Omarchy version: 4.0.0-1
- Hyprland: 0.56.2 (v0.56.2, commit efb50993)
- Quickshell: 0.3.0 (AUR quickshell-git, revision 28771c7c)
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070 SUPER (nvidia 610.57.04) + AMD Raphael iGPU (amdgpu)
- Display: Wayland, 2 monitors (2560x1440 + 1920x1080)
- Note: `omarchy debug --no-sudo --print` referenced in the skill docs does not
  exist as a command on this Omarchy version (checked `omarchy commands --all`).

## Context this came up in

Trying to make the bar render on only one of two monitors (no monitor
restriction exists in `shell.json`), which requires cloning the bar plugin per
Omarchy's own customization docs. The clone-loading bug blocks that path
entirely.

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