Neovim Projects picker is empty: snacks scans ~/dev and ~/projects, Omarchy creates ~/Projects

[Vegasq]

What happens

On a fresh Omarchy install, the Neovim dashboard's Projects button (p, also <leader>fp) opens an empty picker. There are no projects listed, even when ~/Projects is full of git repositories.

Why

Snacks.picker.projects() builds its list from two sources:

1. Git roots of recently opened files. Empty on a fresh install.
2. A dev list of directories to scan for sub-folders containing a root marker (.git, Makefile, package.json, ...).

The dev default in snacks is lowercase (lua/snacks/picker/config/sources.lua:891):

M.projects = {
  finder = "recent_projects",
  dev = { "~/dev", "~/projects" },
  ...
}

Omarchy provisions ~/Projects — capital P:

• bin/omarchy-provision-user:104 adds ~/Projects to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks
• bin/omarchy-upgrade-to-quattro:2003 runs mkdir -p ... "$HOME/Projects" and bookmarks it too

Omarchy neither creates ~/dev nor ~/projects, and Linux paths are case-sensitive, so the picker scans two directories that do not exist and finds nothing. omarchy-nvim ships no picker configuration, so nothing bridges the gap.

Side effect: fd writes [fd error]: Search path '/home/<user>/dev' is not a directory. to stderr on each invocation. It still exits 0, so this is cosmetic, but it means the "correct" fix isn't simply appending ~/Projects to the default list.

Reproduce

On a fresh install with repositories in ~/Projects and no file history:

$ ls -d ~/dev ~/projects
ls: cannot access '/home/user/dev': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/home/user/projects': No such file or directory

Open nvim, press p on the dashboard. Empty picker.

Confirming the default is what's in effect:

$ nvim --headless -c 'lua print(vim.inspect(require("snacks.picker.config").get({source="projects"}).dev))' -c 'qa!'
{ "~/dev", "~/projects" }

Environment

• Omarchy 4.0.0.alpha
• omarchy-nvim 2026.8.13-1
• fd 10.4.2-2, xdg-user-dirs 0.20-1 (which is where PROJECTS=Projects in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults comes from — upstream, not Omarchy)

Fix

omarchy-nvim should point the picker at the directory Omarchy actually creates. PR follows.