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Hyprland looks neat. I was expecting to see a FAQ entry comparing/contrasting to sway. What made you choose hyprland over sway?

by dfc 3y ago

csdvrx 3y ago
> What made you choose hyprland over sway? The number of people talking about how great it was, while it's much more recent that sway: it was too high to just be by chance. Eyecandy is important, and so is flexibility: check https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland and you'll see very different styles made from the same hyprland that I use in "each window is fullscreen" mode. But to stay with a desktop, you've got to integrate it to your workflow, and what made me stick to hyprland is that it's possible to define a keyboard oriented workflow, like I had on Windows
- ilyt 3y ago
  Is there any showcase that shows actual work rather than: * changing wallpapers * changing music * changing mouse cursor speed settings (why is that even in quick accessible panels, I've set it once 10 years ago and haven't changed it) ? Coz outside of being pretty it looks like worse traditional manager like xfce... I don't get the appeal.
  - csdvrx 3y ago
    > why is that even in quick accessible panels Different people like different things? FYI, there's no default panel in hyprland: if you want something you've got to configure it. ewww or waybar give you something like a dock or a taskbar, while wofi gives you menus. For wofi, I have configured the window key to open a textual list of all the apps I have install, so if I press Win it list them all, if I follow by vl it shows VLC as the only remaining entry: I can then start VLC by just hitting enter, which also makes this menu vanish as wofi runs in transparent mode over the top window. I don't like to do that often: if I find myself using something often, I assign it a number between 0 and 9 to have it as Win+number. > Is there any showcase that shows actual work Not any that I have bookmarked, because I'm used to hyprland and I wouldn't have ever thought about watching how other people use it. But here's an example from the last 30 seconds from my actual workflow where I'm using my own remapped shortcuts (some people may need F1, F2 etc to be actually doing their "function" but I don't, so I've remapped them to jump directly between desktop) I pressed F1 to go to desk 1 where wezterm is running, to check how some long running operation is going, then F2 to go back to edge to type this: I have different shortcuts for the desktop, like Win+PageUp and Win+PageDn configured to move to the next or previous one, but I seem to prefer one-key shortcuts to go directly to the one I want, so I've remapped Win+F1 to instead "transfer" a window to desk 1, say if I want something tiled next to the terminal. While I typed this message on HN I remember to do something, so I pressed Win-Grave to open zimwiki in "floating" mode above the edge browser full screen, started taking my note, then I realized I needed to test something in a terminal, so I quickly spawned a foot terminal next to the floating zim with Win+Enter (a shortcut I've setup to get myself a terminal immediately) and used Win+Left to change the splitting ratio to get more room for the terminal, doing Win+Tab to move the focus back and forth between the terminal and zim. When I was done, I pressed Control-D to close my terminal, and Win-Grave to stash away as I may have to take more notes later. This is how I use hyprland, like how I was using Windows 11 before, with some custom AutoHotKey scripts to be a keyboard-only workflow. I mostly use full screen apps and spend 95% of my time between the terminal and the browser, which I each prefer fullscreen on their own desktop Sometimes I do tiling: when I tile something next to the terminal, I have wezterm running on my desktop 1: so F1 takes me there, where I will start whatever I need with Win + the first letter of the name. Win+J change the tiling, so if there're only 2 windows tiled vertically, they become tiled horizontally The rare few times I need a mouse experience, Win+F "floats" the window which is more like what you get from a traditional window manager: I can press on the hotkey + use the mouse to resize or move the window to a specific part of the screen, but I don't think I've done that in the past weeks or even the past months!

Hyprland looks neat. I was expecting to see a FAQ entry comparing/contrasting to sway. What made you choose hyprland over sway?

by dfc 3y ago

Hyprland looks neat. I was expecting to see a FAQ entry comparing/contrasting to sway. What made you choose hyprland over sway?

csdvrx 3y ago

> What made you choose hyprland over sway? The number of people talking about how great it was, while it's much more recent that sway: it was too high to just be by chance. Eyecandy is important, and so is flexibility: check https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland and you'll see very different styles made from the same hyprland that I use in "each window is fullscreen" mode. But to stay with a desktop, you've got to integrate it to your workflow, and what made me stick to hyprland is that it's possible to define a keyboard oriented workflow, like I had on Windows

ilyt 3y ago
Is there any showcase that shows actual work rather than: * changing wallpapers * changing music * changing mouse cursor speed settings (why is that even in quick accessible panels, I've set it once 10 years ago and haven't changed it) ? Coz outside of being pretty it looks like worse traditional manager like xfce... I don't get the appeal.
- csdvrx 3y ago
  > why is that even in quick accessible panels Different people like different things? FYI, there's no default panel in hyprland: if you want something you've got to configure it. ewww or waybar give you something like a dock or a taskbar, while wofi gives you menus. For wofi, I have configured the window key to open a textual list of all the apps I have install, so if I press Win it list them all, if I follow by vl it shows VLC as the only remaining entry: I can then start VLC by just hitting enter, which also makes this menu vanish as wofi runs in transparent mode over the top window. I don't like to do that often: if I find myself using something often, I assign it a number between 0 and 9 to have it as Win+number. > Is there any showcase that shows actual work Not any that I have bookmarked, because I'm used to hyprland and I wouldn't have ever thought about watching how other people use it. But here's an example from the last 30 seconds from my actual workflow where I'm using my own remapped shortcuts (some people may need F1, F2 etc to be actually doing their "function" but I don't, so I've remapped them to jump directly between desktop) I pressed F1 to go to desk 1 where wezterm is running, to check how some long running operation is going, then F2 to go back to edge to type this: I have different shortcuts for the desktop, like Win+PageUp and Win+PageDn configured to move to the next or previous one, but I seem to prefer one-key shortcuts to go directly to the one I want, so I've remapped Win+F1 to instead "transfer" a window to desk 1, say if I want something tiled next to the terminal. While I typed this message on HN I remember to do something, so I pressed Win-Grave to open zimwiki in "floating" mode above the edge browser full screen, started taking my note, then I realized I needed to test something in a terminal, so I quickly spawned a foot terminal next to the floating zim with Win+Enter (a shortcut I've setup to get myself a terminal immediately) and used Win+Left to change the splitting ratio to get more room for the terminal, doing Win+Tab to move the focus back and forth between the terminal and zim. When I was done, I pressed Control-D to close my terminal, and Win-Grave to stash away as I may have to take more notes later. This is how I use hyprland, like how I was using Windows 11 before, with some custom AutoHotKey scripts to be a keyboard-only workflow. I mostly use full screen apps and spend 95% of my time between the terminal and the browser, which I each prefer fullscreen on their own desktop Sometimes I do tiling: when I tile something next to the terminal, I have wezterm running on my desktop 1: so F1 takes me there, where I will start whatever I need with Win + the first letter of the name. Win+J change the tiling, so if there're only 2 windows tiled vertically, they become tiled horizontally The rare few times I need a mouse experience, Win+F "floats" the window which is more like what you get from a traditional window manager: I can press on the hotkey + use the mouse to resize or move the window to a specific part of the screen, but I don't think I've done that in the past weeks or even the past months!