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Configuring Custom Triggers in Omarchy's menu

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So I wanted to add custom options to the Omarchy system menu.

What I’d like to have here is custom options for adding controls to connect to some Bluetooth devices that I use daily (my headphones and a soundbar.)

Dotfiles configuration

The Omarchy system options menu lives at .local/share/omarchy/bin/omarchy-menu

I started by moving this to my dotfiles repo at dotfiles/Omarchy-overrides/.local/share/omarchy/bin. This will allow me to place the folder back by running stow Omarchy-overrides and it will place the file back to it’s original directory.

Config Changes

The main menu section looks like this.

show_main_menu() {
  go_to_menu "$(menu "Go" "󰀻  Apps\n󰧑  Learn\n󱓞  Trigger\n  Style\n  Setup\n󰉉  Install\n󰭌  Remove\n  Update\n  About\n  System")"
}

The “󰄍 Connect\n” section is what we added.

show_main_menu() {
  go_to_menu "$(menu "Go" "Connect\n 󰀻  Apps\n󰧑  Learn\n󱓞  Trigger\n  Style\n  Setup\n󰉉  Install\n󰭌  Remove\n  Update\n  About\n  System")"
}

”Go to” logic

 
go_to_menu() {
  case "${1,,}" in
  *apps*) walker -p "Launch…" ;;
  *learn*) show_learn_menu ;;
  *trigger*) show_trigger_menu ;;
  *share*) show_share_menu ;;
  *style*) show_style_menu ;;
  *theme*) show_theme_menu ;;
  *screenshot*) show_screenshot_menu ;;
  *screenrecord*) show_screenrecord_menu ;;
  *setup*) show_setup_menu ;;
  *power*) show_setup_power_menu ;;
  *install*) show_install_menu ;;
  *remove*) show_remove_menu ;;
  *update*) show_update_menu ;;
  *about*) omarchy-launch-about ;;
  *system*) show_system_menu ;;
  esac
}

We added in the “connect” logic to this,

*connect*) show_connect_menu ;;

“show_connect_menu” itself

I’ll also need to create our menu itself, we’ll do this by making a new menu section overall.

 
show_connect_menu() {
  SOUND_BAR_MAC="$SOUNDBAR"
  HEADPHONES_MAC="$HEADPHONES"
 
  case $(menu "Connect" "󰂯  Soundbar\n󰂯  Headphones") in
  *Soundbar*)
    present_terminal "
      echo 'Switching to Soundbar...';
      bluetoothctl disconnect $HEADPHONES_MAC >/dev/null 2>&1 || true;
      bluetoothctl connect $SOUND_BAR_MAC \
        && exit 0 \
        || { echo '❌ Failed to connect to Soundbar'; read -n1; }
    "
    ;;
  *Headphones*)
    present_terminal "
      echo 'Switching to Headphones...';
      bluetoothctl disconnect $SOUND_BAR_MAC >/dev/null 2>&1 || true;
      bluetoothctl connect $HEADPHONES_MAC \
        && exit 0 \
        || { echo '❌ Failed to connect to Headphones'; read -n1; }
    "
    ;;
  *)
    show_main_menu ;;
  esac
}

HINT

For the variables of $SOUNDBAR and $HEADPHONES you are able to get this list from bluetoothctl devices if they’re already paired with your system.

Success

We’re rolling! Works like a charm.

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