Built for Omarchy

A dead-simple IRC client, for humans and their agents.

Omairc is a small Qt Quick app that runs one window for you and your agent to share. You chat in it. Your agent scripts it over a socket. Nobody has to leave the room.

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One window, one socket, no second client

While the window is running, the same binary doubles as a CLI. It prints one JSON line and exits, so an agent can read a channel, check status, or send a message without ever opening its own connection.

Everything happens over $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/omairc.sock. Your agent asks the running window for what it needs — recent messages, unread counts, the list of connections — and the window answers. Nothing it does clears your badges or steals your selected conversation.

That means you can be mid-conversation in a channel while your agent quietly checks a different one, replies, and gets out of the way.

connections status send conversations read names raise
$ omairc read '#omarchy' --since 5m
// last 5 minutes, as JSON
 
$ omairc send --network libera '#omarchy' \
    "pushed a fix, rerunning ci"
{"ok":true}
 
$ omairc read --unread
// only what you haven't seen

Everything you'd want from an IRC client

Omairc keeps the feature set an IRC regular expects, without the plugin sprawl older clients accumulate.

#Several networks, one window

Each network keeps its own channels, DMs, nick, and connection state, plus a status console for the handshake and errors.

#Keyboard first

Ctrl+K to jump, Ctrl+Shift+K for nick, Alt+A to the next unread, Ctrl+F to find, tab to complete a nick, and drafts that stay put per conversation.

#Slash commands

The usual set, plus /ignore, /mute, /highlight, and CTCP /ping, /time, /version — replies land right in the asking transcript.

#Notifications that behave

A mention or DM while the window is unfocused raises a desktop notification. Clicking it raises the window and opens that conversation.

#Backlog on arrival

Channels ask for their last 100 lines over CHATHISTORY, a bouncer's playback folds in on attach, and a restart reloads recent history as muted backlog.

#Modern IRCv3

SASL, STS, echo-message, server-time, multi-prefix, away-notify, message-tags, batch, chathistory — with reconnects that back off politely.

#Secrets stay secret

Passwords and NickServ secrets go through QtKeychain into your system's Secret Service. Without one, they stay session-only, and Connect says so.

#One process

A second launch just raises the existing window instead of opening a duplicate — the way a well-behaved desktop app should.

#Dressed in your theme

Colors follow whatever Omarchy theme is active and update live, right down to the bundled iA Writer Mono type.

Get it running

On Omarchy or another Arch-based system, one command installs the latest release. Pick one of the other paths if you'd rather build it yourself.

One command recommended

Adds the pacman repository pointed at the latest GitHub release, then installs it.

$curl -fsSL https://omairc-web.pages.dev/install.sh | sh

Safe to re-run: the repository is only added once, and later runs upgrade to the newest release, so from then on upgrades run through pacman as usual. Read install.sh before piping it if you prefer.

From source

Clones the repo and runs the install script as your regular user.

1git clone https://github.com/fredimachado/omairc.git
2cd omairc
3./bin/install

makepkg calls sudo itself when it needs to — you don't have to.

From a release package

Grab the latest .pkg.tar.zst and install it directly, or track updates through pacman.

1sudo pacman -U omairc-*.pkg.tar.zst
2omarchy pkg add omairc

The second option works straight from the Omarchy menu — no repo config needed.

Bugs, ideas, and quick chat

Durable reports go on GitHub. For a fast conversation, find us on Libera.