KDE Plasma 6 · Free & open source

kOMA Launcher

Omarchy’s launcher, recreated for KDE Plasma. The familiar compact menu, dimmed desktop, and keyboard-driven navigation—with actions adapted for KDE.

I wanted the Omarchy launcher experience on my KDE desktop. kOMA Launcher closely recreates its look, layout, and behavior, with native Plasma settings and controls.

Your desktop, a few keystrokes away

Type and launch

Search applications and menu actions. Use the arrow keys to navigate, Enter to launch or open a submenu, Backspace to go back, and Escape to close.

The Omarchy menu tree

Browse Apps, Learn, Trigger, Style, Setup, About, and System. Reach screenshots, sharing tools, keybindings, desktop settings, and power actions.

Made for Plasma

The launcher opens on the focused screen. Its border and selection follow your Plasma highlight color, and its actions use KDE tools.

Make it yours

Add or override menu entries in ~/.config/komalauncher/menu.jsonc. The optional command can open specific submenus from separate shortcuts.

Inside the launcher

kOMA Launcher root menu with Apps, Learn, Trigger, Style, Setup, About, and System — A familiar menu tree, controlled from the keyboard.

kOMA Launcher Apps menu showing installed applications — Browse your apps or type to search.

kOMA Launcher Colors menu with available color schemes — Switch your Plasma color scheme from the launcher.

Get kOMA Launcher

Download version 0.1.0 and use Plasma’s widget manager to Install Widget From Local File. Add kOMA Launcher to a panel, then assign a shortcut in its Keyboard Shortcuts settings. Keep the widget on a panel so shortcuts can reach it.

Download the widget → Source & support →

Requires KDE Plasma 6 and a Nerd Font for menu icons. Some actions require optional tools such as Spectacle, Tesseract, zbar, KDE Connect, or LocalSend. The optional komalauncher command is installed separately from the source repository and requires qdbus6.

Inspired by Omarchy

Based on Omarchy by David Heinemeier Hansson / Basecamp. This KDE recreation is maintained by Columbia Foundry and is not an official Omarchy release. The original attribution and license notices are preserved under the MIT license.

Part of kOMA (KDE + Omarchy), and available as a standalone widget.