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Omarchy Keyboard Shortcuts: 20 Essentials for Daily Use

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A task-based guide to 20 Omarchy shortcuts for launching apps, moving between windows, controlling the desktop, and finding the rest of the keybindings.

An illustrated keyboard with highlighted Super, arrow, and shortcut keys

The first useful Omarchy shortcut is Super + K: it opens the live keybinding list. Keep that nearby while learning the smaller set below. Omarchy has many bindings, but a day of opening apps, moving between windows, and changing a system setting does not require memorizing all of them.

The 20 selections here come from the official Omarchy hotkeys manual checked on September 29, 2026. Super is the Windows key on most PC keyboards. Your own keybinding overrides can change these defaults, so the on-machine list is the final check.

Open what you need

Shortcut Action
Super + K Show the main Omarchy keybindings
Super + Space Open the Omarchy menu
Super + Alt + Space Open the apps menu
Super + Return Open a terminal
Super + Shift + Return Open a browser
Super + Shift + F Open the file manager

The menu is a good starting point when you have not learned an app’s direct shortcut. The navigation guide suggests a simple first exercise: open a terminal, then a browser, and watch Hyprland tile them together. From there, the window controls below become immediately useful.

Move through windows and workspaces

Shortcut Action
Super + Arrow Focus a window in that direction
Super + Shift + Arrow Swap the active window in that direction
Super + 1 through Super + 4 Jump to a numbered workspace
Super + Shift + 1 through 4 Move the active window to a workspace
Super + Tab Go to the next workspace
Alt + Tab Cycle windows on the active workspace
Super + T Toggle the window between tiled and floating
Super + F Make the active window full-screen
Super + W Close the active window

Here is a short sequence worth practicing. Open a terminal and browser, press Super + Arrow to focus the other window, then Super + Shift + Arrow to swap their positions. Move the browser to workspace 2 with Super + Shift + 2, and follow it with Super + 2. This gives the workspace number a job rather than making it another key to memorize.

Super + W closes the focused window, so check focus before using it. The hotkeys reference also lists scratchpad, grouping, and resize commands when those become relevant; they are not prerequisites for everyday navigation.

Reach system controls without hunting for an icon

Shortcut Action
Super + Ctrl + A Open the audio panel
Super + Ctrl + W Open the Wi-Fi/network panel
Super + Ctrl + D Open the display panel
Super + Shift + Space Show or hide the top bar
Super + Ctrl + L Lock the computer

Those five complete the set of 20. The audio, network, and display panels are the same controls reached from the Omarchy top bar. Panels accept keyboard navigation: arrows move between choices, Return activates, Tab moves to a neighboring panel, and Escape closes. Hiding the bar with Super + Shift + Space leaves those panel hotkeys working.

If a shortcut does not match your setup

Open Super + K and search for the action there. Omarchy’s dotfiles manual places personal bindings and overrides in ~/.config/hypr/bindings.lua; the Omarchy menu exposes them through Setup → Keybindings. Edits made through the menu also handle the necessary restart after you leave the editor.

Keep changes in your user configuration rather than editing files in /usr/share/omarchy, which belong to the installed package and can be replaced by updates. If you use Tmux as well, Super + Alt + K opens its separate binding list; it should not be confused with the desktop list opened by Super + K.

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