Hyprland

Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. (by hyprwm)

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Hyprland reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hyprland. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-06.
  • Hyprland – Tiling Compositor with the Looks
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2025
  • Hyprland 0.44.0 Is Out
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2024
    If you go to the homepage: https://hyprland.org/

    It says "Tiling Compositor" as its first words. That's what it is.

    It's not a "window manager" since that's an X11 term, and this is a Wayland Compositor, not an X11 Window Manager.

    I feel like the landing page explains very clearly what it is for the target audience, which is someone who uses wayland and knows what a tiling compositor is.

  • Linux: We Need Tiling Desktop Environments
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2024
  • Hyprland is now independent, dropping wlroots
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2024
    and yet hyprland uses a CoC?

    https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT...

    I joined the hyprland discord after seeing many reports of hyprland having a "toxic" community to verify the claims myself, I must say I'm disappointed. I expected to see some real raunchy stuff, instead it's quite literally one of the most trans-positive and otherwise politically milquetoast servers I'm in.

    The initial rules post you have to agree to before gaining access to the server has hundreds of reactions of various trans flag emotes too.[0]

    What's the problem here? The whole drama seems like virtue-signalling politically-correct FOSS devs attacking other politically-correct FOSS devs.

    [0] https://imgur.com/a/HKrFtbZ

  • Hyprland has officially moved away from wlroots
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2024
  • Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 May 2024
  • Wayland breaks your bad software
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2024
    I've been wanting to try http://hyprland.org/, but since plasma gets me far enough and provides a working taskbar (wifi, sound, bluetooth, mount, clipboard) and virtual desktops on which I end up opening just firefox and emacs I haven't really given it a chance.
  • Hyprland Crash Course
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024
    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...

  • Improving cursor rendering on Wayland
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2024
    I have Hyprland a try some weeks/months ago, and seemingly it had a video memory leak where after some hours of usage, it ended up taking more than 5GB of VRAM, with no signs of slowing down.

    I found one issue (https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1504) mentioning something similar, but it was closed and I was still experiencing the same issue, so not sure what's going on.

    Gnome3 doesn't manifest the same issue, so worth checking out if it happens to you if you're curious about moving from Gnome to Hyprland.

  • RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
    I've been an X11 holdout since forever, but after nvidia proprietary drivers broke for the millionth time on a system upgrade, I switched over to Nouveau and the "Hyprland" tiling compositor on Wayland. It's the only setup that felt worth the upgrade to me. Setup was easy, animations are very slick (scroll down on the link below for a sample), and I've had no bugs or quirks. Highly recommend checking it out if you're bored or curious.

    https://hyprland.org/

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