Swipe Control

Your trackpad, the way macOS taught you to use it, on Omarchy.

Swipe between workspaces with the page following your fingers. Swipe up for Mission Control with live window previews. Swipe down to open the popups on the right of the bar and swipe sideways through them, like Control Center. Hold Shift while swiping to carry the focused window along to the next workspace, and resize windows by dragging their edges and corners. Every gesture can be switched off in a settings popup in the bar.

Gestures

Three fingers, four, or both (see Settings)	Normally	While a bar popup is open	While Mission Control is open
Left / right	Switch workspace, 1:1 with your fingers	Step to the neighbouring popup	Switch workspace
Shift + left / right	Carry the focused window to the workspace on that side	same	same
Up	Open Mission Control	Close the popup	—
Down	Open a bar popup (the last used one, or the first)	—	Close Mission Control
Spread / pinch	Make the focused window fullscreen / bring it back	same	—

As on macOS, a short swipe is enough to move on to the next workspace: the switch commits after 30 % of the swipe distance or a brisk flick, instead of Hyprland's default of half the distance. Choose Halfway in the settings for the default behaviour.

Spreading your fingers grows the focused window to fullscreen as it follows them, and pinching brings it back, as on macOS. Two-finger pinch stays with the apps (zooming in the browser); the fullscreen pinch uses the same finger count as the other gestures.

The window is dragged the way your fingers move, so Shift + swiping right moves it to the workspace on the right. Moving a window past the last workspace creates a new one.

Mission Control

Each monitor shows its workspaces as thumbnails along the top and the windows of the active workspace spread out below, with live previews. The desktop behind is blurred.

• Click a window to focus it, or pick one with Tab or the up and down arrows and press Enter.
• Click a workspace to switch to it, or step through the workspaces with the left and right arrows; Enter closes Mission Control there.
• Drag a window onto a workspace thumbnail to move it there.
• Swipe down, press Escape, or click empty space to close it.

Resizing windows

With Drag edges to resize on, point at a window's edge or corner until the cursor turns into a resize arrow, then click and drag, as on macOS. For tiled windows this moves the split to the neighbour. Omarchy turns Hyprland's resize_on_border off; the plugin turns it on with a 20 px grab zone, so the edge is easy to hit inside the gap, and puts the previous values back when the setting is switched off.

Hyprland shows the resize cursor on every edge, including the edges of tiled windows that sit against the screen or the bar and cannot be resized. While the setting is on, the plugin watches the pointer and hides the resize cursor on those edges, so it only appears where dragging does something.

Keyboard

While a bar popup is open, Super + left/right step between popups; the plain arrows stay with the popup itself (volume, brightness, calendar month and so on). Omarchy's Super + left/right window focus bindings step aside while a popup is open and are restored when it closes. Turn this off in the settings if you have your own bindings on those keys.

Mission Control and the bar popups have no keybindings of their own. Add them to ~/.config/hypr/bindings.lua if you like, for example:

-- XF86LaunchA is the Mission Control key (F3) on Mac keyboards.
o.bind("XF86LaunchA", "Mission Control", "omarchy-shell -q io.github.workingtitle.gestures toggleExpose")
o.bind("SUPER + E", "Mission Control", "omarchy-shell -q io.github.workingtitle.gestures toggleExpose")
o.bind("SUPER + B", "Bar popups", "omarchy-shell -q io.github.workingtitle.gestures togglePanel")

Check first that the keys are free on your system: omarchy menu keybindings --print.

Requirements

• Omarchy with the plugin-capable shell (Quattro) and Hyprland 0.55 or newer with the Lua config
• A touchpad with three- and/or four-finger gestures
• No other packages. The plugin uses hyprctl, bash and the standard command-line tools that Omarchy ships.

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/workingtitle/omarchy-swipe-control.git --enable

The icon appears in the right section of the bar. Click it: the first time, the settings popup offers Enable in Hyprland. That button runs the plugin's setup.sh, which

1. copies ~/.config/hypr/input.lua to input.lua.bak.<timestamp>.<random>,
2. appends a block between -- >>> Swipe Control and -- <<< Swipe Control that loads the plugin's gestures.lua, and
3. reloads Hyprland.

Nothing outside that block is changed, and nothing is written before you press the button. To set it up by hand instead, add this to input.lua:

-- >>> Swipe Control (io.github.workingtitle.gestures)
do
  local ok, err = pcall(dofile, os.getenv("HOME") .. "/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.workingtitle.gestures/gestures.lua")
  if not ok then print("swipe control: " .. tostring(err)) end
end
-- <<< Swipe Control

Remove any hl.gesture(...) lines of your own that use the same number of fingers; Hyprland rejects a second gesture on the same fingers and direction.

Settings

Click the icon in the bar. Changes apply at once, without reloading Hyprland.

Key	Default	Meaning
threeFingers	true	The gestures work with three fingers
fourFingers	false	The gestures work with four fingers; both can be on, at least one stays on
workspaceSwipe	true	Left/right switches workspaces
shortSwipe	true	A short swipe is enough to switch workspaces, as on macOS; off is Hyprland's halfway threshold
pinchFullscreen	true	Spread fingers for fullscreen, pinch to come back
pinchMaximize	false	Spread maximizes (bar stays visible) instead of true fullscreen
stopAtLastWorkspace	true	The workspace swipe stops at the last workspace instead of creating an empty one
swipeUpExpose	true	Up opens Mission Control
swipeDownPanels	true	Down opens bar popups; left/right then moves between them
startPanel	"last"	Popup that down opens: "last" used or "first"
windowSwipe	true	Shift + swipe moves the focused window
popupArrowKeys	true	Super + left/right switch popups while one is open
resizeOnEdges	true	Resize windows by dragging their edges and corners

The settings live on the widget's entry in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json. For Hyprland they are mirrored as plain key=value lines to ~/.local/state/omarchy/gestures-settings.conf, which gestures.lua parses and never executes. The last used popup is kept in ~/.local/state/omarchy/gestures-last-panel.

Uninstall

1. Open the settings popup and press Remove from Hyprland. This removes the marked block from input.lua (after a backup) and reloads Hyprland, which drops every gesture the plugin added. Or run ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.workingtitle.gestures/setup.sh disable.

2. Remove the plugin:

   omarchy plugin remove io.github.workingtitle.gestures

3. Optionally delete ~/.local/state/omarchy/gestures-settings.conf and ~/.local/state/omarchy/gestures-last-panel, and any keybindings you added.

If you remove the plugin first, the block in input.lua stays harmless: it only prints a message when the file is gone. Delete it by hand.

How it works

Hyprland allows one gesture per finger count and direction, so gestures.lua swaps the gesture set whenever a bar popup (layer omarchy-keyboard-panel) or Mission Control (layer omarchy-gestures-expose) opens or closes. Omarchy turns blur off globally, so blur is switched on only while Mission Control is open and your values are restored afterwards.

The plugin's IPC target can be used from scripts and keybindings:

omarchy-shell io.github.workingtitle.gestures openPanel|togglePanel|next|previous|closePanel|current|expose|closeExpose|toggleExpose|exposeState

To see which gestures are active:

hyprctl repl 'return OmarchyGestures.describe()'

The shell's plugin API does not expose other widgets' popups, so the plugin finds them through the bar's module slots. A larger change to the Omarchy bar can break popup navigation; workspace swipes, window moves and Mission Control do not depend on it.

Troubleshooting

• Mission Control or popup navigation stops responding after the plugin was updated or edited. The shell reloads changed plugins in place and can keep an old instance answering the plugin's IPC target (the shell log shows "another handler is registered for target io.github.workingtitle.gestures"). Run omarchy restart shell.
• Swipe up does nothing. While a bar popup is open, swipe up closes it instead of opening Mission Control. Check with hyprctl repl 'return OmarchyGestures.describe()': the first word is the current mode (normal, popup or expose).

License

MIT, see LICENSE.