Use omacut on Omarchy

omacut on Omarchy: the 30-second video trimmer

omacut is Omarchy’s own dead-simple video trimmer — open a video, drag the start/end handles, preview, export an MP4. It’s for anyone who records screen captures, camera clips, or phone video on Omarchy and just needs the boring parts cut off fast.

TL;DR install

omarchy pkg add omacut

On Omarchy 4.x (Quattro) and newer, omacut is installed by default — hit Super+Space, type “omacut”, and skip the install entirely.

Getting started in 5 minutes

1. First launch

Launch omacut from the app launcher (Super+Space → type omacut) or run omacut in a terminal. The window opens with a big “open video” prompt. The interface follows your Omarchy theme’s accent color automatically — there’s no theme setting to touch.

2. The 3 things you need to know

• Open a video — Ctrl+O (or click the open prompt). The video loads as a timeline clip with a handle at each end. Almost any container works since ffmpeg does the decoding, but the export is always MP4.
• Set your handles — drag the left and right handles to pick start and end. The dimmed part outside the handles gets cut. For more than a plain trim: double-click a clip to split it, drag handles apart to cut ranges out of the middle, double-click a gap to join it back, hover a clip and hit its × to drop it. Playback plays the remaining clips in order and skips the gaps.
• Export — Ctrl+S. You get an export dialog with three quality options: Original, 1080p, 720p. Exports never upscale and always preserve aspect ratio. The file saves next to your source as <name>_trimmed.mp4.

3. Keyboard shortcuts that matter most

4. Config location

None documented. omacut keeps no config files in ~/.config — the theme accent is read live from the Omarchy theme, and there’s no settings panel. That’s the point: one window, one job.

Common issues & fixes

No public user issue reports were found on the repo — the app is young (June 2026) and the real bugs surfaced in upstream’s own commit history, where DHH documented and fixed them. All of these are fixed in current builds; they’re here so you know what you’re looking at if you ever hit one on an old install.

AV1 clips preview black while timeline thumbnails look fine

Fix: Fixed upstream on Oct 2, 2026 (commit bbceafe): Qt’s ffmpeg backend fell through to Vulkan video when VA-API was missing, and on GPUs without Vulkan decode queues it picked an hwaccel-only AV1 decoder and never fell back to software. Update omacut and the preview works. If you still see it on an exotic GPU, QT_FFMPEG_DECODING_HW_DEVICE_TYPES=vaapi,cuda omacut forces the supported backends.

After dismissing the open dialog once, every later open/export dialog silently does nothing

Fix: Fixed upstream July 2026 (commit 54321b1): omacut subscribed to the xdg-desktop-portal response after the async call returned, so a fast response arrived before the listener was installed — and nothing ever reset the pending state. Restart the app and update to the latest build; the bug no longer occurs.

The app opens and previews play, but export fails

Fix: ffmpeg and ffprobe must be on your PATH at runtime — the app doesn’t link them, it shells out to them (noted in nixarchy’s packaging). On stock Omarchy this is a dependency, but if you installed oddly, check: which ffmpeg ffprobe. If missing, omarchy pkg add ffmpeg.

The file picker never appears when opening or exporting

Fix: omacut requires xdg-desktop-portal plus a portal backend for its file picker (README requirements). This ships on Omarchy; if you run omacut on a non-Omarchy distro without it, install xdg-desktop-portal and a backend (e.g. xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland or -gtk) and restart.

Pairs well with / If you hate this, try

Pairs well with

• Monologue (omacom/monologue) — Omarchy’s webcam recorder; it hands recordings straight to a built-in omacut-style trimmer. Record, trim, done — the two apps are siblings in DHH’s lineup. OBS Studio (omarchy pkg add obs-studio) — record your screen, then trim the dead air off in omacut. mpv (default on Omarchy) — quick preview of your trimmed exports without opening a heavy player.

If you hate this, try

• LosslessCut — the closest free rival. It’s cross-platform, lossless (no re-encode, so exports finish in seconds with zero quality loss), and far more capable. What it isn’t: native-looking on Omarchy, and it’s Electron, so it’s heavyweight next to omacut’s single Qt binary.

Comparison: omacut vs LosslessCut vs Avidemux vs Pitivi

One-line verdict: pick omacut when you want the fastest possible trim that looks like it belongs on your desktop; pick LosslessCut when you care about zero quality loss and instant exports; pick Pitivi when you need actual editing.

How to switch from Filmora (or Premiere) for simple trims (~5 minutes)

1. Export from the paid app: you don’t need to — just grab the source video file. omacut reads almost any container via ffmpeg.
2. Trim in omacut: open the file (Ctrl+O), drag the handles, split and cut middle sections as needed, preview with Space, export with Ctrl+S as Original-quality MP4.
3. What doesn’t transfer: anything beyond cutting — effects, transitions, titles, audio tracks, project structure. If your “trim” needs any of that, you’re not a trimmer person, you’re an editor person: use Pitivi or Kdenlive instead.
4. Time estimate: under 5 minutes for a basic end-trim, no render queue to babysit.