What is Hyprland
Hyprland is a dynamic tiling wayland compositor written in C++ that offers unique features
like smooth animations, dynamic tiling and rounded corners.
Install yay
About AUR helper
Aur Helper is a tool which help you download apps and binaries stored and uploaded in Arch User Repository thus, giving you access to a large in no packages which are not available in official pacman repo’s
pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
Now let’s install Hyprland from the AUR
yay -S hyprland-git
Auto start Hyprland
The goal is to auto start Hyprland without having to run Hyprland from the tty
- Let’s write a script called wrappedhl
#!/bin/sh
cd ~
export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
export XCURSOR_SIZE=24
export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
export SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export GLFW_IM_MODULE=ibus
# qt applications
export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM="wayland"
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
#env variables for gtk
#gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'Win11-dark'
#gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Gruvbox-Dark-BL'
#gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme 'WhiteSur Cursors'
#gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'JetBrains Mono NL SemiBold'
exec Hyprland
Make sure to add your own icon-theme gtk-theme etc.
- add the script in
$HOME/.zprofile - change the shell to default shell to
zsh
sudo chsh -s $(which zsh)
- Finally logout then login