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Reprieve: Every Window Deserves a Second Chance

REPRIEVE project artwork

You meant to move the window. Your fingers hit Super+W. There goes the terminal, the scrollback, the half-written thought.

Reprieve gives that keystroke a safety net on Omarchy. Once you enable protection, Super+W parks the live window on a hidden workspace. Super+Z brings it back. The process keeps running, so a restored window still has its state.

Version 1.1 adds a bar widget: an icon for each hidden window, with a click to return it. Super+Shift+Z opens the recovery timeline. A local journal helps the plugin find parked windows after a shell reload, and media pauses while a window is tucked away.

This isn't an undo button for a terminated process. Reopen is a separate option for supported browsers and web apps; the default ten-window stack also closes its oldest window when full. Reprieve tells those cases apart.

Free, MIT-licensed, and built for Omarchy 4. Install from GitHub, choose Enable Protection, and give the next accidental close a second chance.

A 30-second illustrated tutorial: park a window, find it in the bar, and bring it back.created with forgevideo · greyforge.tech/store/forgevideo ↗
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