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Introduction
What omadora is, who it's for, and why it's built on Fedora, sway and Quickshell.
omadora is a complete desktop for people whose computer is a tool for work. It combines three mature open-source projects, and each one covers one side of the job:
| Layer | Project | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Fedora 45 | Stability and security. Fixed releases, SELinux, and security updates that install automatically. |
| Window manager | sway | Productivity. Keyboard-first tiling: every window has a place, nothing overlaps, nothing needs dragging. |
| Desktop shell | Quickshell | Beauty. One coherent, themed shell for the bar, launcher, notifications, clipboard, screenshots, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio, lock screen and more. |
Usually you have to pick two: a stable system that’s dull, a beautiful one that breaks on updates, or a fast one you spend weekends maintaining. omadora’s premise is that you don’t have to choose any more.
Who it’s for
- Business owners who want company machines that stay up, stay patched and stay out of the way.
- Admins who want every machine on a team set up the same way, from one repository.
- Employees who just want a fast, calm desktop that’s the same every morning.
- Power users who live on the keyboard and want every action a keystroke away.
Principles
- Boring where it matters. Fedora’s fixed releases, not a rolling distribution.
- Secure by default. Encryption, SELinux, a closed firewall, automatic updates, and deny-by-default Bluetooth pairing, with no setup required. See Security.
- Keyboard first, mouse friendly. Everything has a shortcut, and everything is also clickable.
- One look. A single theme drives the bar, popups, window borders, terminal, GTK icons and Firefox.
- Readable configuration. Plain text in a git repository: no hidden state, and you can audit all of it.
The name
omadora was formerly called fedcandor: Fedora + candor. In Latin, candor means brilliance or radiance (literally, dazzling whiteness), and also sincerity and openness. Both meanings still apply: a desktop that’s a pleasure to look at, and one that’s honest about what it does. Every line of it is open and auditable.
Getting it
omadora installs on a regular Fedora 45 system (the Sway spin or any other Fedora 45 install) with one idempotent script. See Install.