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Installing Omanta

The install steps and the latest release are on GitHub. Nothing else on your desktop changes.

Where it is

A terminal · github.com/28allday/omanta

What you can do

Follow the install steps on GitHub (github.com/28allday/omanta#install). They always match the latest release.
Installing changes none of your defaults. Nautilus, or whatever you use now, stays the file manager until you switch (see Make it your file manager).
Omanta's window is called Files. Open it from the app launcher.
Optional extras: gvfs-smb, gvfs-mtp and gvfs-gphoto2 for network shares, phones and cameras; ffmpegthumbnailer for video thumbnails; localsearch for searching inside files.
To remove it: omanta-switch nautilus and omanta-switch remove-menu if you switched, then sudo pacman -R omanta.

In this film

Download the packageFrom the latest release on GitHub
Install it with pacmanIt asks for your password
Nothing else changesYour current file manager stays the default
Or build it yourselfFrom the source, with makepkg
Open Files from the app launcherOmanta's window is called Files

Install it

The install steps and the latest release are on GitHub, and they're kept up to date with every release.

Install Omanta from GitHub

What it needs

Arch with Omarchy. Everything it needs (qt6-base, qt6-declarative, glib2, gvfs, libarchive, tinysparql) is already in Omarchy, or pacman adds it. These are optional:

`gvfs-smb`	Windows shares and NAS drives (smb://).
`gvfs-mtp`, `gvfs-gphoto2`	Phones and cameras plugged in by USB.
`ffmpegthumbnailer`	Thumbnails for videos.
`localsearch`	Searching inside files (Contents, in Search).

Removing it

omanta-switch nautilus && omanta-switch remove-menu   # only if you switched
sudo pacman -R omanta