Reboot into

An Omarchy bar plugin. The restart glyph sits in the top bar. Open it and the menu lists the operating systems in the firmware boot menu. Pick one and the panel counts down, types out what it is about to do, then reboots into that system for the next boot only.

The popup uses the shell theme: popup surface, bar foreground, bar font, and the same hover and selected fills as the built-in panels.

Install

Omarchy with the Quickshell shell, plus efibootmgr and jq. Both ship with Omarchy.

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/07dcolem/omarchy-target-boot.git --enable

The icon lands on the right of the bar. Move it with:

omarchy bar move io.github.07dcolem.target-boot --section right

Remove it with:

omarchy plugin remove io.github.07dcolem.target-boot

Using it

Where	Action
Bar icon	left click opens the menu, right click reads the firmware again
Operating system row	starts the countdown for that system
⋮ on a row	Rename or Hide
Hidden	lists the systems you hid, and shows one again
Stay here	cancels the countdown
Clear next boot	drops a next boot that is already armed

The ⋮ menu sits at the end of each row. Rename edits the name shown in this plugin. Hide takes that system off the list. Hidden at the bottom of the menu lists every hidden system, including one the firmware no longer has, and Unhide puts it back. Rename and hide are saved on the widget. The firmware menu stays as it is. An inactive system shows in the main list again when Show inactive entries is on.

Keyboard, while the menu is open:

Key	Action
j k ↑ ↓	move
h l ← →	leave the ⋮ button, or move onto it
Enter Space	start the countdown for the highlighted system
.	open Rename and Hide for the highlighted system
Esc	close that menu, leave Hidden, cancel the countdown, or close the menu
r	read the firmware again
Tab	move to the next bar panel

In the ⋮ menu, j and k move between Rename and Hide, and Enter runs the highlighted one. In Hidden, Enter shows the highlighted system again. A renamed name is what the countdown and the bar tooltip use. Clearing the field puts the firmware name back.

The current system is marked This boot. A system already chosen for the following boot is marked Next boot.

The countdown

Choosing a system does not reboot on the click. The menu crossfades into a hold of about four and a half seconds:

1. 3 — “Setting next boot to …” types out under the name.
2. 2 — “The saved boot order stays as it is.”
3. 1 — “Rebooting into …”

The numeral fades and settles on each step. Esc or Stay here returns to the list, and at that point the firmware has not been touched. When the hold ends, the restart glyph pulses, next boot is set, and Omarchy runs its own reboot (the “Rebooting” indicator, then windows close).

Dismissing the menu during the hold cancels it. Once next boot has been written, the reboot continues.

What gets written

The only firmware write is the one-shot BootNext variable (efibootmgr --bootnext). The firmware consumes it on the next boot and then drops it, so the boot after that follows the saved order again.

Boot order, which entries exist, the active flag on each entry, and the firmware timeout all stay as they are. After the write, the helper reads the menu back and compares the boot order with what it was. The reboot starts only when next boot matches the system you picked and the boot order is unchanged.

Clearing an armed next boot is efibootmgr --delete-bootnext, which removes that same one-shot variable.

Rename and hide are saved on the widget entry in shell.json.

Writing next boot needs root. The helper drops the caller’s environment and runs only the system copy of efibootmgr. Passwordless sudo is used when the machine already allows that program without a password. Otherwise pkexec asks through Omarchy’s polkit prompt, and that prompt appears at the end of the countdown. The reboot itself runs as you, through omarchy system reboot, because the logged-in session is already allowed to reboot.

Settings

Set these on the widget entry in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json, or in Setup → Plugins.

Key	Default	What it does
showInactive	false	Also list firmware entries marked inactive
names	none	Boot id to the name shown in the menu. Written by Rename
hidden	none	Boot ids left out of the main list. Written by Hide

names and hidden are edited from the menu. A boot id is four hex digits, the same id list prints. A name is at most 80 characters, and at most 64 names and 64 hidden ids are kept. Example:

{
  "id": "io.github.07dcolem.target-boot",
  "names": { "0001": "Windows" },
  "hidden": ["0007"]
}

Scripting

The panel talks to bin/target-boot. From a shell:

~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.07dcolem.target-boot/bin/target-boot list
~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.07dcolem.target-boot/bin/target-boot reboot-into 0001
~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.07dcolem.target-boot/bin/target-boot bootnext 0001
~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.07dcolem.target-boot/bin/target-boot clear-next

list is JSON. reboot-into sets next boot and reboots. bootnext sets next boot and returns, which is the way to arm a system without leaving this one. clear-next removes it. --dry-run prints the exact argv and does not touch the firmware.

From the running shell:

omarchy-shell io.github.07dcolem.target-boot toggle
omarchy-shell io.github.07dcolem.target-boot list
omarchy-shell io.github.07dcolem.target-boot rebootInto 0001

rebootInto opens the menu and starts the same countdown. It does not skip the hold.

How it works

Panel.qml is the bar widget and the popup. Model.js is the countdown copy, the row text, the name map, the hidden list, and the JSON parsing, with no processes in it. bin/target-boot is the only thing that runs efibootmgr.

Device paths and labels are firmware data. Every line of text in the panel is plain text, and labels are passed to jq as arguments, so a name cannot become a command or markup.

A saved efibootmgr listing can be passed with --fixture for tests. A fixture is refused when the command would actually write.

node test/model.test.js
bash test/script.test.sh
omarchy plugin validate .

Changelog

1.1.0

• Each operating system row has a ⋮ menu with Rename and Hide.
• Rename stores a display name on the widget as names in shell.json. The firmware name is unchanged, and clearing the field restores it. The list, the countdown, and the bar tooltip use the display name.
• Hide stores boot ids as hidden on that same entry. Hidden lists them, including an id the firmware no longer has, and Unhide puts one back in the main list.

1.0.1

• Reboot still runs when passwordless sudo is unavailable. Elevation is pkexec /usr/bin/efibootmgr, without a leading --.

License

MIT