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Hyprland
Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
I used to use AwesomeWM [1] almost a decade ago. Nowadays I'm professionally stuck on macOS, and not a week goes by that I miss AwesomeWM... [2]
So this is a fun reminder that the Linux Window Manager world continues to evolve. It looks like Hyprland is a cross between those tiling window managers and Enlightenment of yore (for the eye-candy)
AwesomeWM's killer feature was "window tagging". Does Hyprland imeplement a similar thing? In AwesomeWM, it meant you could "tag" various windows (for example: Terminal, Editor, Browser), then display an arbitrary set of Tags. This way, I could trivially go from "Editor and Terminal" to just "Editor" to "Editor & Browser".
[1] https://awesomewm.org/
[2] I am aware of the various window manager tools for macOS like Moom, SizeUp, and the like, but none that I've tried come to the ankle of the better Linux tiling WMs.
it's a known issue https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprlang/issues/30 and will likely be fixed in the future
I wrote my own layout manager to do exactly this:
https://github.com/pkulak/filtile
If you want to get a system running from scratch quickly, and avoid the 'two days of setup' problem, I strongly recommend hyprdots. A lot of the things you'd be forced to manually find and install come pre-installed and configured.
https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots
It had, but they are all dead until ported to the new kde 6.
https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecom...
This is what I used. I found no good replacement for it and that is what made me switch to hyprland.
i believe it should be possible to make tag like experience for macos with hammerspoon (lua based scripting engine for macos), you can move windows between desktops with it, so you could have one desktop for tiled windows and default for maximized, so whenever you want to switch to tiled group of windows u somehow trigger that with hammerspoon shortcut, and when you switch to a single window you switch to default desktop
i have an implementation of window manipulation based on key/letter hints, you can use it as a reference
https://github.com/ivanbalashov239/hammerspoon.config
Lots of what the article talks about pertains to the difference between a 'full DE' and 'just a WM'. Gnome and KDE fall in the first category. They have a notification system, lockscreens, app launcher, etc by default. Hyprland doesn't. It puts windows on your screen and allows you to control their layout, everything beyond that, you can add yourself.
This article mentions dunst for notifications, Rofi for app launchers, Waybar for a status bar, swaylock for screen locking, ... I've been having a great time using just AGS [0]. AGS, at its core, is a framework to write all of those tools. It is based on the same technology that Gnome Shell uses, i.e. GJS. You can build up all of the widgets you want and need using Gtk and replace all of the tools I mentioned before. But be warned: AGS only provides you with the libraries you need, you'll still need to build the UI yourself. Unless you copy someone else's configuration of course ;)
[0] https://github.com/aylur/ags
My work on AGS, so far, has been mostly focused on adding support for additional features that weren't available before. I implemented the possibility to write your own PolKit agent in AGS and have just recently gotten secure session locking via the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol working. I still need to clean up the code and send PRs upstream, though.
That said, my config is available on GitHub [0]. If you want to see much more complete setups, you should check out the configurations by Aylur (creator of AGS) [1], kotontrion [2], or end_4 [3]. I'm sure there are lots more that are notable, but these immediately came to mind.
[0] https://github.com/Cu3PO42/gleaming-glacier/tree/next/config...
[1] https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles
[2] https://github.com/kotontrion/dotfiles
[3] https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland
My work on AGS, so far, has been mostly focused on adding support for additional features that weren't available before. I implemented the possibility to write your own PolKit agent in AGS and have just recently gotten secure session locking via the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol working. I still need to clean up the code and send PRs upstream, though.
That said, my config is available on GitHub [0]. If you want to see much more complete setups, you should check out the configurations by Aylur (creator of AGS) [1], kotontrion [2], or end_4 [3]. I'm sure there are lots more that are notable, but these immediately came to mind.
[0] https://github.com/Cu3PO42/gleaming-glacier/tree/next/config...
[1] https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles
[2] https://github.com/kotontrion/dotfiles
[3] https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland
My work on AGS, so far, has been mostly focused on adding support for additional features that weren't available before. I implemented the possibility to write your own PolKit agent in AGS and have just recently gotten secure session locking via the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol working. I still need to clean up the code and send PRs upstream, though.
That said, my config is available on GitHub [0]. If you want to see much more complete setups, you should check out the configurations by Aylur (creator of AGS) [1], kotontrion [2], or end_4 [3]. I'm sure there are lots more that are notable, but these immediately came to mind.
[0] https://github.com/Cu3PO42/gleaming-glacier/tree/next/config...
[1] https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles
[2] https://github.com/kotontrion/dotfiles
[3] https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland
My work on AGS, so far, has been mostly focused on adding support for additional features that weren't available before. I implemented the possibility to write your own PolKit agent in AGS and have just recently gotten secure session locking via the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol working. I still need to clean up the code and send PRs upstream, though.
That said, my config is available on GitHub [0]. If you want to see much more complete setups, you should check out the configurations by Aylur (creator of AGS) [1], kotontrion [2], or end_4 [3]. I'm sure there are lots more that are notable, but these immediately came to mind.
[0] https://github.com/Cu3PO42/gleaming-glacier/tree/next/config...
[1] https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles
[2] https://github.com/kotontrion/dotfiles
[3] https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland
This is a fork of bismuth that works with plasma 6. Haven't tried it, but it is supposedly quite nice
https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium
Hyprland builds using a pinned commit of wlroots instead of a tagged release because wlroots release schedule is too slow for Hyprland's development [0]
This turns into a problem for maintainers because many distributions refuse to ship non tagged versions of software
Hyprland used to depend on wlroots-git, but when it made the switch to use specific pinned commits a lot more distributions started to package it [1], but some still refuse to do so such as Debian.
[0] https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland/issues/302#issuecomment-1...
[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_request...