Hyprland

hyprland is Article description::an open-source written in C++.

Installation
Hyprland is not an official package on Gentoo (yet). The package is available in the.

Configuration
To view all available configuration options:

Also the hyprland wiki is an excellent documentation.

Files
Each user running hyprland can edit the default configuration file in order to run a customized session. The path of the file should be the default location

Display configuration
Display options can be queried with:

Monitor can be adjusted by modifying. Once the file is saved, the configuration will be reloaded automatically

Check out hyprland wiki monitor for more information

Sound volume
If is being used, the following configuration can be used for changing sound volume:

If is being used, the following configuration can be used for changing sound volume (with ):

If is being used, the following configuration can be used for changing the sound volume:

If is being used, the following configuration can be used for changing the sound volume:

Brightness
Package|app-misc/brightnessctl (available in the ) can be used to adjust backlights and brightness. Here is an example config:

Playerctl
can be used to control multimedia apps. Here is an example config:

Terminal emulator
The Gentoo Wiki lists terminal emulators that support Wayland on the page. Popular choices include or, which works natively with Wayland if the   environment variable is set to.

Waybar
can be used as a highly customizable status bar. It requires some extra configuration and patches for hyprland.

Use flags
Compile waybar with to make the wlr/workspaces widget work.

Switching workspaces by clicking
Put this is patch into It makes waybars workspaces switcher use.

--- a/src/modules/wlr/workspace_manager.cpp +++ b/src/modules/wlr/workspace_manager.cpp @@ -511,7 +511,8 @@ auto Workspace::handle_clicked(GdkEventButton *bt) -> bool { if (action.empty) return true; else if (action == "activate") { -   zext_workspace_handle_v1_activate(workspace_handle_); +   const std::string command = "hyprctl dispatch workspace " + name_; +	system(command.c_str); } else if (action == "close") { zext_workspace_handle_v1_remove(workspace_handle_); } else {

Persistent workspaces
A patch for persistent workspaces was recently merged in Waybars Github repository, but it is not available yet in the current versioned package on Gentoo. Emerge waybar as live ebuild (9999) to get this feature.

Other status bars
See.

Screen Sharing
See hyprland screensharing

xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
xdg-desktop-portals are helper programs for desktop environments. The work by managing D-BUS interfaces and exposing them as 'portals'. On Wayland they are often needed because, unlike X, Wayland does not allow windows to easily talk to each other. If some programs start up very slowly in hyprland on if screensharing does not work, a problem with the xdg-desktop-portal is likely the reason. Hyprland does work with the, but screensharing will not work with this. Hyprland upstream forked xdg-desktop-portal-wlr into gui-libs/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland (available in the ),

xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland needs to be started after Hyprland starts. This is done the easiest using hyprland's exec-once function. It is also a good idea to tell D-BUS, that the current desktop is Hyprland To do so, this should be added in the Hyprland config:

users should not worry to much about the  flag here. The command will update the systemd --user environment if possible, so it will simply not do that on OpenRC.

Also a script should be executed at start. This script will start the xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland.

exec-once = ~/.config/hypr/xdg-portal-hyprland

The script can reside anywhere, here it is in ~/.config//hypr/xdg-portal-hyprland The contents are as follows

sleep 1 killall xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland killall xdg-desktop-portal-gnome killall xdg-desktop-portal-wlr killall xdg-desktop-portal /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland & sleep 2 /usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal &
 * 1) !/bin/bash

This will ensure that no other desktop portal is running while using Hyprland, which can cause problems.

xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Even though the other portals processes get killed in the script from the earlier point, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome causes problems with Hyprland. Hyprland warns about that at startup when it detects xdg-desktop-portal-gnome on the system. When using Hyprland, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome should be uninstalled from the system:

Gnome will still work, but it could have some lacking functionality (like besaid screensharing).

Because depends on the portal,  will be pulled in with every portage world set update. Portages feature could be used to prevent pulling in xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.

Executing Hyprland
Some s may work. Without a display manager, Hyprland can be started from a tty:

Omitting the may cause.

Launching Hyprland with TTY login
This is a simple method to start Hyprland, this can be added to a user's shell rc file, and once logged in, a Hyprland session will execute.