Space Era

Space Era is an Omarchy theme that turns your desktop into a compact mission-control console: deep black surfaces, phosphor-green telemetry, NASA red alerts, blue tracking overlays, and a real Apollo-era Mission Control wallpaper anchoring the whole thing.

It is not a landing page. It is the cockpit.

Features

• Space Era Omarchy theme with matched Mission Control palette.
• Opaque black menu bar for a clean instrument-panel feel.
• Apollo-inspired system telemetry plugin with console-style needle gauges (CPU, MEM, VRAM, TMP).
• Apollo DSKY AGC Calculator (spaceera.dsky) with math evaluation, register displays, and multi-unit conversions (time, data, bases, velocity).
• Flight Director Mission Timeline & Pomodoro Engine (spaceera.timeline) with Mission Elapsed Time (MET), T-Minus event countdowns, and propulsion burn focus sessions.
• Live ISS tracker plugin with:
  • real coastline map data
  • live ISS marker
  • white orbit path
  • blue visibility footprint
  • configurable user city
  • user-location marker
  • next pass countdown and duration
  • flashing ACQUIRED bar state when the ISS is in range
• High-resolution NASA Mission Control background.

Screenshots

Install

Install the theme directly from GitHub:

omarchy theme install https://github.com/diogogc/SpaceEraTheme.git
omarchy theme set "Space Era"

Then install the bundled console plugins:

mkdir -p ~/.config/omarchy/plugins
cp -a ~/.config/omarchy/themes/space-era/plugins/spaceera-iss-tracker ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/spaceera.iss-tracker
cp -a ~/.config/omarchy/themes/space-era/plugins/spaceera-telemetry ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/spaceera.telemetry
cp -a ~/.config/omarchy/themes/space-era/plugins/spaceera-dsky ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/spaceera.dsky
cp -a ~/.config/omarchy/themes/space-era/plugins/spaceera-timeline ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/spaceera.timeline

Add the widgets to your Omarchy bar configuration if they are not already present in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json:

{
  "bar": {
    "layout": {
      "right": [
        "spaceera.iss-tracker",
        "spaceera.telemetry",
        "spaceera.dsky",
        "spaceera.timeline"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Omarchy usually hot-reloads local plugins. If needed, restart the shell:

omarchy restart shell

The plugins use standard command-line tools available on a typical Omarchy system: bash, curl, jq, and python3.

Standalone ISS Tracker

The ISS tracker plugin is also available as its own repository:

git clone https://github.com/diogogc/spaceera-iss-tracker.git ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/spaceera.iss-tracker

ISS Tracker Usage

Click ISS in the bar to open the tracker panel.

• Type a city in the HOME field and press Enter or SET.
• Your city is saved in ~/.config/spaceera/iss-location.json.
• The map shows your location, the ISS location, orbit path, and visibility footprint.
• When the ISS is inside your visibility footprint, the bar flashes and shows ACQUIRED.

Right-click the bar widget to refresh live data.

Telemetry Usage

Click Telemetry in the bar to open the system panel. The panel shows CPU, memory, video memory, and temperature as character-based Apollo-style needle gauges.

Right-click the bar widget to refresh immediately.

DSKY Calculator Usage

Click DSKY in the bar to open the Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY panel.

• Type standard math expressions directly (e.g. 25 * 60, sqrt(144), 2^10) or use the physical keypad.
• Switch programs/modes with top tabs or PROG:
  • PROG 01: General arithmetic and multi-register calculation (R1 result, R2 previous, R3 memory).
  • PROG 16: Unix epoch timestamp and live UTC / local mission time.
  • PROG 25: Data storage unit converter (Bytes $\leftrightarrow$ KiB/MiB $\leftrightarrow$ GiB/TiB).
  • PROG 30: Base converter (Decimal $\leftrightarrow$ Hexadecimal $\leftrightarrow$ Binary).
  • PROG 40: Velocity converter (km/h $\leftrightarrow$ mph/knots $\leftrightarrow$ m/s/Mach).
• Right-click the bar widget to cycle program modes quickly.

Flight Director & Pomodoro Usage

Click the Flight Director icon in the bar to open the mission timeline.

• Mission Elapsed Time (MET): Real-time clock tracking session duration.
• Propulsion Burn Engine (Focus Sessions):
  • Click ▶ IGNITION to start a focus burn (default 25m).
  • Click ❚❚ HOLD to pause or ⏭ STAGE SEP to transition to coasting orbit (break).
  • Automatic desktop notification on burnout and stage transitions.
  • Quick presets for 25/5m, 45/10m, 50/10m, and 60/15m focus cycles.
• T-Minus Countdown: Quick buttons (+5M, +15M, +30M, +60M) for meeting or deadline countdowns.
• Right-click the bar widget to quickly toggle/pause the active burn.

Credits

Created by diogo carvalho.

The Mission Control background is based on official NASA imagery. Space Era's theme styling, plugin design, and console instrumentation are original work by diogo carvalho.

License

Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You may use, modify, and share it, but you must give appropriate credit to diogo carvalho.