Hyprland

Last updated: 2024, Mon Jun 10th at 09:39 CDT

Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots. It provides the latest Wayland features, it’s highly customizable, has clean aesthetics, a powerful plugin system, and many more Quality of Life features compared to other wlroots-based compositors. Official Site GitHub Wiki

To Install: #

Preferred method

Hyprland is in active development, and generally needs the most up-to-date packages. For Debian/Ubuntu a rolling release may allow you to install manually.

sudo pacman -Su hyprland

sudo apt install meson wget build-essential ninja-build cmake-extras cmake gettext gettext-base fontconfig libfontconfig-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev libdrm-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libxkbregistry-dev libxkbcommon-dev libpixman-1-dev libudev-dev libseat-dev seatd libxcb-dri3-dev libegl-dev libgles2 libegl1-mesa-dev glslang-tools libinput-bin libinput-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libxcb-ewmh2 libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-res0-dev libxcb-xinput-dev xdg-desktop-portal-wlr libtomlplusplus3 

sudo dnf install hyprland

sudo zypper in hyprland

yay -S gdb ninja gcc cmake meson libxcb xcb-proto xcb-util xcb-util-keysyms libxfixes libx11 libxcomposite xorg-xinput libxrender pixman wayland-protocols cairo pango seatd libxkbcommon xcb-util-wm xorg-xwayland libinput libliftoff libdisplay-info cpio tomlplusplus

git clone --recursive https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland
cd Hyprland
make all && sudo make install

Essentials #

The default config should be generated ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf An example is found online in the projects GitHub.

Extras #

To remove the yellow warning either remove autogenerated=1 or comment it out #

Edit the .conf file to suit your needs, more information on how and what can be configured can be found on the wiki. If you get stuck or looking for ideas, there is a few examples on the wiki or doing a web search for hyprland dotfiles may help. You can segment your conf file to other ones like keybind.conf then just use source = ~/.config/hypr/keybinding.conf

Software #

Hyprland is a window manager and as such is designed to be as minimal as possible. It does have a few default utilities and plugins. Plugins are optional but can expand the look and features of Hyprland.

Available #

• hyprctl used to controll some of the components from the CLI or scripts
• hyprpm is a plugin manager
  • hy3 A plugin for an i3 / sway like manual tiling layout
  • split-monitor-workspaces plugin to provide independent per-monitor workspaces.
  • hyprgrass Touch gesture plugin

More plugins can be found online with a simple search and more are being made regularly. There is additional information on how to build your own at this link.

Suggested #

This a list of suggested programs to use on Hyprland. Most Window managers let you customize every detail.