Huge thanks to Vaxry and all contributors, Hyprland is great!
I’ve been tinkering with it lately and really like it as a shiny alternative. Might switch to my primary if I can get some real tinker time. Having a young family makes it hard to have hobbies!
Definitely a friendlier and more intuitive option for newcomers than something like sway. I’ve been thinking about sway though because static layouts would play nicer with my ultra wide.
Dynamic tilers don’t really consider evenly spitting apps into thirds or a window automatically taking three fifths while stacking two others or combinations of the two.
Space is definitely a premium on a 2560x1080 screen.
Ooh, I moved to hyprland a few months ago and fell in love, but sway will give me static layouts? My singular gripe with hyprland is I want to keep my RDP app fixed to a size and never resized for anything, because when that window resizes inadvertently, I have to MFA half a dozen connections. I mostly like the dynamic tiling, but I’d like to fix one window on one workspace and never have it resize.
Have you tried window rules to make RDP automatically spawn onto a different workspace? Or you can set it to float and keep aspect ratio with window rules and maybe with minimum size so it doesn’t get too small.
I haven’t played with pseudo tiling, by default it’s
super+pI think it keeps aspect ratio and size but I haven’t messed with it that much. If pseudo works you can set that as a window rules probably with size.I think it’s called manual wm, my bad. I think there’s a way to define a layout for arranging the windows in a certain way. Regardless you tell it to either vertically or horizontally split the currently focused window when you spawn a new window.
There might even be a way to define how a dynamic wm extension arranged windows by creating a pattern or set of rules. When I have more free time I want to play with it on my laptop because they just don’t want to bother with Nvidia like Hyperland has.
Edit: now I wanna play with window rules and find a solution to your RDP problem.
Can you go in more about the sway comparison… I used sway for a few months and miss it a bit but touchegg is really hard to let go of. But I’ve been eyeing hyprland
I’m probably not the best source for that, sorry. I’ve heard about this or than on sway but I haven’t really been able to use sway until recently because my desktop has Nvidia. (I have a laptop now)
But I’ve heard Hyperland being compared to awesomewm but with fancy animations and quality of life changes you probably wouldn’t find in any other wayland wm.
There’s better window capture where you can focus on individual apps, there’s the ability to pass hotkeys to x11 apps by adding it to the config, there’s whatever the latest feature wlroots has before it is included in the release, etc…
You might be able to install it along side sway and use all the same software bar the config file. You could probably do
foo -c /point/to/different/configin most apps to keep things separate and set up a script to kill xdg-portal-wlroots and start xdg-portal-hyprland. Or you could just use portal-wlroots they are almost one to one minus the screen capture tricks.The documentation is top notch so it should be easy to get into. If your system has to be rock solid stable I’d be weary because the project moves at a breakneck speed and is largely done by one guy with help but I haven’t had any issues so far. If touchegg supports sway it should support hyprland because they’re both based on wlroots.
A really solid option, in my experience. I’d even call it stable if they weren’t mangling the config from time to time.
Does Hyperland support scrolling tiling?
That seems to be the new hotness in tiling WMs.
Scrolling tiling is a niche not supported by hyprland.
Personally I’m not yet sure whether I like scrolling tiling. It might be really interesting for single monitor setups, but I feel a dynamic tiler is better for a multi monitor setup. With multiple screens, available space isn’t an issue and not having all windows visible or on another workspace feels like a disadvantage.
But maybe I just have to get accustomed to niri. The concept is great. Especially on tablets it might be really useful.
Other than niri (which is great) what is there?
What does it do that sway doesn’t?
I remember someone talking about animation but I never really look into it.
Just take a look at the video on the main page, it demonstrates it pretty well: https://hyprland.org/
