Command Palette

Open the palette with Control + Option + Space (configurable with the other keyboard shortcuts) and search windows, app menus, or clipboard history from one shared surface.

Modes

The palette has three modes:

• Windows — Cmd + 1
• Menu — Cmd + 2
• Clipboard — Cmd + 3

Tab / Shift + Tab cycle forward or backward through the available modes.

Navigating results

• Up / Down move the selection.
• Enter activates the selected result.
• Shift + Enter summons the selected window to the right of the current one, when available.
• Escape dismisses the palette.

Windows from macOS-hidden apps remain searchable and carry a Hidden badge; selecting one unhides its app and focuses that exact window. In Menu mode, results always show keyboard shortcuts when available.

How search ranks results

Window search uses substring matching with tiered ranking: matches in the window title rank first, then matches in the app name, then matches in the workspace name — and typing part of the literal word “hidden” surfaces the windows of hidden apps. Within each tier, matches closer to the start of the text rank higher.

Clipboard history

Clipboard history is off by default; enable it in Settings. Once enabled, the Clipboard mode searches everything you have copied.

History is deduplicated — copying identical content again updates the existing entry and moves it to the top instead of creating a duplicate — and it is persisted securely: entries are written with owner-only file permissions to OmniWM’s state directory (${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/omniwm), outside dotfile-oriented config storage.

Menu Anywhere

Control + Option + M pops the frontmost app’s real menu bar at your cursor, so you can reach any application’s native menus without traveling to the top of the screen.