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Jeena's Hyprland Demo

58 points by jeena 1y ago

christophilus 1y ago
Hyprland has become pretty popular, maybe in part due to DHH promoting it a bit. But in my opinion, Niri is where it's at. If you're into this sort of thing and haven't tried Niri, I'd highly recommend it. The scrolling approach to window management is incredibly nice for my workflow.
- jeena 1y ago
  It looks similar with the difference of scrolling. Kind of interesting, and you still can have stacks of windows. But how does it decide on how wide a window should be?
  - bayesianbot 1y ago
    Usually you'd have some predefined widths, like 33%, 50% and 67%, and use a shortcut to cycle between them. And you can define window rules to start some applications with different width than your default. edit: and as fellow niri user, I recommend people try it. I think it's one of the easiest tiling WMs to get into, it feels very natural within minutes.
- weikju 1y ago
  I second this. I first got exposed to this concept via the gnome extension, PaperWM. Now using Niri as well.
  - no_carrier 1y ago
    Niri looks promising to me. After I discovered PaperWM I moved on to Material Shell, which was still the best workflow I've come across to date. It was basically gnome with a 2d grid: you could scroll workspaces left and right and then again on the vertical axis. The author sort of abandoned it (it was a Gnome extension) in order to go all in on their own desktop environment with the same concept. I'm guessing that'll take a while to get off the ground.
- 3836293648 1y ago
  Having tried Niri, it's probising but very much not ready for primetime yet. And extremely miserable to use without a trackpad, as opposed to all other tiling WMs that are keyboard first.
  - kuuchuu 1y ago
    It has felt very "keyboard first" for me. The hotkeys are very customizable.
  - mmgutz 1y ago
    As someone who spends most of his time in nvim and TUIs (yazi, lazydocker, termusic, tmux in ssh ...), Niri is as keyboard centric as you want. Mine is configured to use vim keys.
  - christophilus 1y ago
    I’ve used it daily without a trackpad for months now. So, I don’t k on what you’re talking about.
- bashtoni 1y ago
  One thing I love about Hyprland (and Sway, which I was using before it) is the ability to have a key-combination which takes me straight to where I want. Is this possible on Niri, where the virtual desktop expands infinitely?
  - gorgoiler 1y ago
    Not OP, but my take on this from using i3/sway for years was realizing that I often had two kinds of windows open. Important long lived ones would be on workspaces where I could jump to them by number. I would have sound mixer and music on 1, mail and instant messaging on 2, browser on 3, then dev stuff or admin tasks etc on 4+. These would stretch horizontally, of course. What I found was the “+” in “4+” could often be quite a lot of windows. I might have to reference some PDF in order to fill out a form in another PDF, and open a new browser window to manage some other reference document, and screenshots for the final draft, and terminals for taking temporary notes, maybe an image editor to trim screenshots, etc.* With niri, I still have the “1234” layout but these are now rows with keyboard shortcuts. The ad hoc windows that get pushed onto and popped off my mental context stack grow rightwards… as a stack! For me, niri’s brilliance is giving me those two axes. Known topics with keyboard navigation on the vertical axis. Ad-hoc tasks within each topic on a push/pop context stack on the horizontal axis. *Ironically, these multi-window tasks were always the most mundane! Form filling for a mortgage application, say, or managing a report review for multiple authors. Software engineering — one of the more complicated things one can do on a computer, is all very neatly contained inside an IDE / tmux+vim+sh.
    - bashtoni 1y ago
      OK, this sounds interesting enough for me to give it a try. I actually think the two axis approach would work well for the way I work.
  - chills 1y ago
    In addition to sibling commenter, niri exposes everything over an IPC accessible via its cli (or a socket), so if you wanted, say, a keybind to switch to your terminal, no matter where it is, you could bind it to this: niri msg action focus-window --id $(niri msg --json windows | jq '.[] | select(.app_id=="foot") | .id')
- likeclockwork 1y ago
  Agreed. I don't find automatic tiling that useful in general because you don't really get strong layout control but I also never found say i3 or manual tiling that useful on a small laptop screen. (It's pretty nice on a large screen or ultrawide, though) However Niri works fantastically in both use cases because it gives me what I really want: Resizable, rearrangeable columns of windows, as many as I need for the current task and a way to quickly rearrange and spatially navigate so that I can see exactly what I need to see.
- TiredOfLife 1y ago
  The horizontal scrolling was the only thing i HATED about Windows 8. It's nauseating
- mindcrash 1y ago
  > maybe in part due to DHH promoting it a bit Try PewDiePie. around 6.7M people now know something like Linux and Hyprland exists, and that in 2025 it might even work better than MacOS or Windows and whatever desktop environments on Linux came before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0
cheema33 1y ago
Slightly off-topic rant: Demos with apps/terminals that use translucent backgrounds befuddle me. In this demo at one point he is showing some code that is syntax highlighted. Some text is grey with background that is also grey/white. Good luck reading that! Why do people do this?
- jeena 1y ago
  I'm demoing my own system, this is how I set it up and this is how I use it and the transparency is a integral part of the esthetic. Having said that, I guess the compression of the video makes it less sharp and contrasty as it is in real life. But all code is shared in the original with a link in the description if someone really wants to dig deeper into it.
  - indy 1y ago
    Thank you for posting the video and making your config public. As a recent hyprland user it's really useful being able to pick out the features I like and incorporating them into my setup.
- mynegation 1y ago
  For the same reason people dress differently: it looks cool, futuristic, makes it more individual, and makes it feel good to use their own system. I am with you on this preference: transparency is distracting to me, but I see the appeal - I ran transparent terminals 20 years ago.
ilvez 1y ago
I'm still waiting for killer demo for switching from x.org/i3 to wayland/whatever next tiling. At least there are options now in Wayland other than sway, but hyprland currently is not motivating enough when demos mostly focus on eyecandy. Transitions especially are excess. That being said I'm glad that Hyprland exists and shows people that there is power in minimalism. Fluxbox was my first love..
- kahnclusions 1y ago
  If you use i3, you can switch to Sway.
  - dugmartin 1y ago
    And if you want a solid integrated i3/Sway desktop I'd recommend checking out Regolith (https://regolith-desktop.com/ https://regolith-desktop.com/). I've been running it for years and its great.
- boomskats 1y ago
  Give Niri a few days of your time. It's exactly what you're looking for.
- gorgoiler 1y ago
  I moved from i3 to sway — an i3 clone built as a Wayland compositor — specifically to banish screen tearing from my experience. Wayland’s architecture makes tearing inherently less likely not the least reason being that the compositor synchronizes all drawing with the display rate. X11 is much more of a free for all.
- chrismorgan 1y ago
  I used i3 previously (2013–2016), and after a few years back on Windows (2016–2021), decided to try Sway on my current laptop (mid-2021), which happens to have a 1.5× panel. Not everything has always been smooth, but at some point when I was needing to do screen sharing via Zoom I had to switch back to i3, and the comparison was more stark than I remembered. On i3: Tearing (graphical glitches) is terrible, especially if you’re doing screen sharing. I can’t use my XF86AudioMicMute key because its keycode is 256 and X only supports 8-bit codes. The touchpad doesn’t work well. Scaling stuff is a total mess, a mess that you can mostly get to work, but you’ll need to set four different environment variables and run a gsettings daemon and set these three properties and add this file to this location and that one to that and modify your Chromium flags and I probably even forgot a couple of steps. On Wayland: Tearing is solved. I had to modify the keymap to get XF86AudioMicMute¹, which I suspect was because of X compatibility, but then it works. The touchpad works very well, gestures, scroll rates and all. Scaling is robust and automatic, if you have an integer scaling factor or are willing to settle for render-at-next-integer-and-downsample, which is a bad technique but good enough for Apple; and compositors now support proper fractional scaling, and apps are more commonly implementing it (though I’m distressed it took so long). Firefox Nightly has just this week finally fixed the last problem that I’ve noticed, and I hope they’ll default-enable Wayland fractional scaling and Wayland soon. The only thing I feel Sway’s behind in now is its lack of per-window screen sharing. Other than that, it’s very solidly better than i3 in every way: in convenience (things work better out of the box), in robustness (features that exist don’t have issues) and in features. —⁂— ¹ Ran `xkbcomp $DISPLAY keymap.xkb`, then modified that file by changing `maximum = 255;` to `maximum = 256;`, and adding in appropriate places `<I256> = 256;` and `key <I256> { [ XF86AudioMicMute ] };`. Then, in ~/.config/sway/config, `input * xkb_file "~/.config/sway/keymap.xkb"` or similar.
neebz 1y ago
Looks super interesting. Has anyone here tried a keyboard-first tiling window manager on macOS? Any recommendations?
- cadamsdotcom 1y ago
  Give Rectangle a go. I’ve used it for years and love it. Thirds, quarters, sixths. Move windows to the next screen. Increase and decrease size.. so many nice things you can do with just the keyboard. Its keyboard shortcuts are so deeply in my brain I could rattle them off while operating heavy machinery :)
- astr0n0mer 1y ago
  Check out AeroSpace (https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace). I've been a happy user for the last 8 months or so.
  - jnsaff2 1y ago
    +1 for AeroSpace. I have been i3/sway user for about a decade and was really missing similar experience on Mac. All the previous ones came with gotchas or were nowhere near the usability of i3/sway. AeroSpace is almost there, it has a few quirks and annoyances and is missing some features but it's close enough that it's now my daily driver for client work requiring being on a Mac. Highly recommended and hopefully it continues to evolve. Also hoping that the churn in macOS is not going to kill it for some unexpected reason. As far as Hyprland, I tried it and when I got to a setup that I felt comfortable I realized that I had basically replicated my Sway setup with no added benefits so I just switched back to Sway. I'm not much into ricing anyway. I mostly want the chrome to stay out of my way. That said, for people unfamiliar with i3/Sway, Hyprland could be a great way of getting into tiling so I'm definitely rooting for them!
  - Jnr 1y ago
    As a "Linux at home - macOS at work" user, I can't stand Window management on macOS. It is so inefficient and hard to manage. AeroSpace tiling window manager finally changed my work day from constant struggle to only occasional struggle with macOS. I use it with sketchybar which is not yet perfect, but it could become quite good and performant with some work on it. I currently use Gnome on Linux, not a tiling window manager, and I would gladly go with Hyprland, but about a year ago while I was trying it out, it crashed quite a few times so it clearly was not ready for production use back then. Will give it a shot again.
marginalia_nu 1y ago
Hyprland is great. I switched to it beginning of this year and haven't looked back. Initially I ran JaKoolIt's dotfiles which had a bit too many anime waifus, then some custom dotfiles I made myself, and finally Omarchy which really checks all the boxes for me. My single gripe I have with it is multi-monitor behavior is pretty bizarre, as workspaces are a per-monitor deal. My other complaint was with how it dealt with ultrawide monitors, but I managed to get a PR in that fixed that and let you configure an aspect ratio for windows that are the only window on screen so that they aren't always stretched a kilometer wide.
- marginalia_nu 1y ago
  Actually, typing this out led me to find a fix for the multiscreen workspace issue I was having. Basically the solution is to first assign the workspaces to monitors, and then bind the hotkeys to switch both workspaces at once, with the final binding being the one you land at. If someone wants to steal my homework, this is what I did # use `hyprctl monitors` to get your monitors' names, replace DP-3 and HDMI-A-1 as appropriate workspace = 1, monitor:DP-3, default:true workspace = 2, monitor:HDMI-A-1, default:true workspace = 3, monitor:DP-3 workspace = 4, monitor:HDMI-A-1 workspace = 5, monitor:DP-3 workspace = 6, monitor:HDMI-A-1 workspace = 7, monitor:DP-3 workspace = 8, monitor:HDMI-A-1 unbind = SUPER, code:10 unbind = SUPER, code:11 unbind = SUPER, code:12 unbind = SUPER, code:13 unbind = SUPER, code:14 unbind = SUPER, code:15 unbind = SUPER, code:16 unbind = SUPER, code:17 bindd = SUPER, code:10, Switch to workspace 1, workspace, 2 bindd = SUPER, code:10, Switch to workspace 1, workspace, 1 bindd = SUPER, code:11, Switch to workspace 2, workspace, 1 bindd = SUPER, code:11, Switch to workspace 2, workspace, 2 bindd = SUPER, code:12, Switch to workspace 3, workspace, 4 bindd = SUPER, code:12, Switch to workspace 3, workspace, 3 bindd = SUPER, code:13, Switch to workspace 4, workspace, 3 bindd = SUPER, code:13, Switch to workspace 4, workspace, 4 bindd = SUPER, code:14, Switch to workspace 5, workspace, 6 bindd = SUPER, code:14, Switch to workspace 5, workspace, 5 bindd = SUPER, code:15, Switch to workspace 6, workspace, 5 bindd = SUPER, code:15, Switch to workspace 6, workspace, 6 bindd = SUPER, code:16, Switch to workspace 7, workspace, 8 bindd = SUPER, code:16, Switch to workspace 7, workspace, 7 bindd = SUPER, code:17, Switch to workspace 8, workspace, 7 bindd = SUPER, code:17, Switch to workspace 8, workspace, 8
rufugee 1y ago
As a long-time Linux full time user, I begrudgingly switched to a mac for company reasons around a decade ago. I've lost a little bit of light in my life ever since, and was constantly fighting macOS to just let me work the way I want to. I've switched back full time to Omarchy, and couldn't be happier. I'll likely eventually land back on NixOS with hyprland and my custom configs, but for now, Omarchy is wonderful. DHH is just the salesman a Linux distro like this needs, and the combination of smart decisions (most menu'd commands just call out to shell scripts behind the scenes) and text-based config make Omarchy a techie's dream. Add something like claude code in your ~/.config directory and you have almost instant and infinite ability to customize. It's so much fun. For any former i3 users, I've found https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3 https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3 to be a very acceptable replacement.

58 points by jeena 1y ago

Hyprland has become pretty popular, maybe in part due to DHH promoting it a bit. But in my opinion, Niri is where it's at. If you're into this sort of thing and haven't tried Niri, I'd highly recommend it. The scrolling approach to window management is incredibly nice for my workflow.

jeena 1y ago
It looks similar with the difference of scrolling. Kind of interesting, and you still can have stacks of windows. But how does it decide on how wide a window should be?
- bayesianbot 1y ago
  Usually you'd have some predefined widths, like 33%, 50% and 67%, and use a shortcut to cycle between them. And you can define window rules to start some applications with different width than your default. edit: and as fellow niri user, I recommend people try it. I think it's one of the easiest tiling WMs to get into, it feels very natural within minutes.
weikju 1y ago
I second this. I first got exposed to this concept via the gnome extension, PaperWM. Now using Niri as well.
- no_carrier 1y ago
  Niri looks promising to me. After I discovered PaperWM I moved on to Material Shell, which was still the best workflow I've come across to date. It was basically gnome with a 2d grid: you could scroll workspaces left and right and then again on the vertical axis. The author sort of abandoned it (it was a Gnome extension) in order to go all in on their own desktop environment with the same concept. I'm guessing that'll take a while to get off the ground.
3836293648 1y ago
Having tried Niri, it's probising but very much not ready for primetime yet. And extremely miserable to use without a trackpad, as opposed to all other tiling WMs that are keyboard first.
- kuuchuu 1y ago
  It has felt very "keyboard first" for me. The hotkeys are very customizable.
- mmgutz 1y ago
  As someone who spends most of his time in nvim and TUIs (yazi, lazydocker, termusic, tmux in ssh ...), Niri is as keyboard centric as you want. Mine is configured to use vim keys.
- christophilus 1y ago
  I’ve used it daily without a trackpad for months now. So, I don’t k on what you’re talking about.
bashtoni 1y ago
One thing I love about Hyprland (and Sway, which I was using before it) is the ability to have a key-combination which takes me straight to where I want. Is this possible on Niri, where the virtual desktop expands infinitely?
- gorgoiler 1y ago
  Not OP, but my take on this from using i3/sway for years was realizing that I often had two kinds of windows open. Important long lived ones would be on workspaces where I could jump to them by number. I would have sound mixer and music on 1, mail and instant messaging on 2, browser on 3, then dev stuff or admin tasks etc on 4+. These would stretch horizontally, of course. What I found was the “+” in “4+” could often be quite a lot of windows. I might have to reference some PDF in order to fill out a form in another PDF, and open a new browser window to manage some other reference document, and screenshots for the final draft, and terminals for taking temporary notes, maybe an image editor to trim screenshots, etc.* With niri, I still have the “1234” layout but these are now rows with keyboard shortcuts. The ad hoc windows that get pushed onto and popped off my mental context stack grow rightwards… as a stack! For me, niri’s brilliance is giving me those two axes. Known topics with keyboard navigation on the vertical axis. Ad-hoc tasks within each topic on a push/pop context stack on the horizontal axis. *Ironically, these multi-window tasks were always the most mundane! Form filling for a mortgage application, say, or managing a report review for multiple authors. Software engineering — one of the more complicated things one can do on a computer, is all very neatly contained inside an IDE / tmux+vim+sh.
  - bashtoni 1y ago
    OK, this sounds interesting enough for me to give it a try. I actually think the two axis approach would work well for the way I work.
- chills 1y ago
  In addition to sibling commenter, niri exposes everything over an IPC accessible via its cli (or a socket), so if you wanted, say, a keybind to switch to your terminal, no matter where it is, you could bind it to this: niri msg action focus-window --id $(niri msg --json windows | jq '.[] | select(.app_id=="foot") | .id')
likeclockwork 1y ago
Agreed. I don't find automatic tiling that useful in general because you don't really get strong layout control but I also never found say i3 or manual tiling that useful on a small laptop screen. (It's pretty nice on a large screen or ultrawide, though) However Niri works fantastically in both use cases because it gives me what I really want: Resizable, rearrangeable columns of windows, as many as I need for the current task and a way to quickly rearrange and spatially navigate so that I can see exactly what I need to see.
TiredOfLife 1y ago
The horizontal scrolling was the only thing i HATED about Windows 8. It's nauseating
mindcrash 1y ago
> maybe in part due to DHH promoting it a bit Try PewDiePie. around 6.7M people now know something like Linux and Hyprland exists, and that in 2025 it might even work better than MacOS or Windows and whatever desktop environments on Linux came before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0

cheema33 1y ago

Slightly off-topic rant: Demos with apps/terminals that use translucent backgrounds befuddle me. In this demo at one point he is showing some code that is syntax highlighted. Some text is grey with background that is also grey/white. Good luck reading that! Why do people do this?

jeena 1y ago
I'm demoing my own system, this is how I set it up and this is how I use it and the transparency is a integral part of the esthetic. Having said that, I guess the compression of the video makes it less sharp and contrasty as it is in real life. But all code is shared in the original with a link in the description if someone really wants to dig deeper into it.
- indy 1y ago
  Thank you for posting the video and making your config public. As a recent hyprland user it's really useful being able to pick out the features I like and incorporating them into my setup.
mynegation 1y ago
For the same reason people dress differently: it looks cool, futuristic, makes it more individual, and makes it feel good to use their own system. I am with you on this preference: transparency is distracting to me, but I see the appeal - I ran transparent terminals 20 years ago.

ilvez 1y ago

I'm still waiting for killer demo for switching from x.org/i3 to wayland/whatever next tiling. At least there are options now in Wayland other than sway, but hyprland currently is not motivating enough when demos mostly focus on eyecandy. Transitions especially are excess. That being said I'm glad that Hyprland exists and shows people that there is power in minimalism. Fluxbox was my first love..

kahnclusions 1y ago
If you use i3, you can switch to Sway.
- dugmartin 1y ago
  And if you want a solid integrated i3/Sway desktop I'd recommend checking out Regolith (https://regolith-desktop.com/ https://regolith-desktop.com/). I've been running it for years and its great.
boomskats 1y ago
Give Niri a few days of your time. It's exactly what you're looking for.
gorgoiler 1y ago
I moved from i3 to sway — an i3 clone built as a Wayland compositor — specifically to banish screen tearing from my experience. Wayland’s architecture makes tearing inherently less likely not the least reason being that the compositor synchronizes all drawing with the display rate. X11 is much more of a free for all.
chrismorgan 1y ago
I used i3 previously (2013–2016), and after a few years back on Windows (2016–2021), decided to try Sway on my current laptop (mid-2021), which happens to have a 1.5× panel. Not everything has always been smooth, but at some point when I was needing to do screen sharing via Zoom I had to switch back to i3, and the comparison was more stark than I remembered. On i3: Tearing (graphical glitches) is terrible, especially if you’re doing screen sharing. I can’t use my XF86AudioMicMute key because its keycode is 256 and X only supports 8-bit codes. The touchpad doesn’t work well. Scaling stuff is a total mess, a mess that you can mostly get to work, but you’ll need to set four different environment variables and run a gsettings daemon and set these three properties and add this file to this location and that one to that and modify your Chromium flags and I probably even forgot a couple of steps. On Wayland: Tearing is solved. I had to modify the keymap to get XF86AudioMicMute¹, which I suspect was because of X compatibility, but then it works. The touchpad works very well, gestures, scroll rates and all. Scaling is robust and automatic, if you have an integer scaling factor or are willing to settle for render-at-next-integer-and-downsample, which is a bad technique but good enough for Apple; and compositors now support proper fractional scaling, and apps are more commonly implementing it (though I’m distressed it took so long). Firefox Nightly has just this week finally fixed the last problem that I’ve noticed, and I hope they’ll default-enable Wayland fractional scaling and Wayland soon. The only thing I feel Sway’s behind in now is its lack of per-window screen sharing. Other than that, it’s very solidly better than i3 in every way: in convenience (things work better out of the box), in robustness (features that exist don’t have issues) and in features. —⁂— ¹ Ran `xkbcomp $DISPLAY keymap.xkb`, then modified that file by changing `maximum = 255;` to `maximum = 256;`, and adding in appropriate places `<I256> = 256;` and `key <I256> { [ XF86AudioMicMute ] };`. Then, in ~/.config/sway/config, `input * xkb_file "~/.config/sway/keymap.xkb"` or similar.

neebz 1y ago

Looks super interesting. Has anyone here tried a keyboard-first tiling window manager on macOS? Any recommendations?

cadamsdotcom 1y ago
Give Rectangle a go. I’ve used it for years and love it. Thirds, quarters, sixths. Move windows to the next screen. Increase and decrease size.. so many nice things you can do with just the keyboard. Its keyboard shortcuts are so deeply in my brain I could rattle them off while operating heavy machinery :)
astr0n0mer 1y ago
Check out AeroSpace (https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace). I've been a happy user for the last 8 months or so.
- jnsaff2 1y ago
  +1 for AeroSpace. I have been i3/sway user for about a decade and was really missing similar experience on Mac. All the previous ones came with gotchas or were nowhere near the usability of i3/sway. AeroSpace is almost there, it has a few quirks and annoyances and is missing some features but it's close enough that it's now my daily driver for client work requiring being on a Mac. Highly recommended and hopefully it continues to evolve. Also hoping that the churn in macOS is not going to kill it for some unexpected reason. As far as Hyprland, I tried it and when I got to a setup that I felt comfortable I realized that I had basically replicated my Sway setup with no added benefits so I just switched back to Sway. I'm not much into ricing anyway. I mostly want the chrome to stay out of my way. That said, for people unfamiliar with i3/Sway, Hyprland could be a great way of getting into tiling so I'm definitely rooting for them!
- Jnr 1y ago
  As a "Linux at home - macOS at work" user, I can't stand Window management on macOS. It is so inefficient and hard to manage. AeroSpace tiling window manager finally changed my work day from constant struggle to only occasional struggle with macOS. I use it with sketchybar which is not yet perfect, but it could become quite good and performant with some work on it. I currently use Gnome on Linux, not a tiling window manager, and I would gladly go with Hyprland, but about a year ago while I was trying it out, it crashed quite a few times so it clearly was not ready for production use back then. Will give it a shot again.

marginalia_nu 1y ago

Hyprland is great. I switched to it beginning of this year and haven't looked back. Initially I ran JaKoolIt's dotfiles which had a bit too many anime waifus, then some custom dotfiles I made myself, and finally Omarchy which really checks all the boxes for me. My single gripe I have with it is multi-monitor behavior is pretty bizarre, as workspaces are a per-monitor deal. My other complaint was with how it dealt with ultrawide monitors, but I managed to get a PR in that fixed that and let you configure an aspect ratio for windows that are the only window on screen so that they aren't always stretched a kilometer wide.

marginalia_nu 1y ago
Actually, typing this out led me to find a fix for the multiscreen workspace issue I was having. Basically the solution is to first assign the workspaces to monitors, and then bind the hotkeys to switch both workspaces at once, with the final binding being the one you land at. If someone wants to steal my homework, this is what I did # use `hyprctl monitors` to get your monitors' names, replace DP-3 and HDMI-A-1 as appropriate workspace = 1, monitor:DP-3, default:true workspace = 2, monitor:HDMI-A-1, default:true workspace = 3, monitor:DP-3 workspace = 4, monitor:HDMI-A-1 workspace = 5, monitor:DP-3 workspace = 6, monitor:HDMI-A-1 workspace = 7, monitor:DP-3 workspace = 8, monitor:HDMI-A-1 unbind = SUPER, code:10 unbind = SUPER, code:11 unbind = SUPER, code:12 unbind = SUPER, code:13 unbind = SUPER, code:14 unbind = SUPER, code:15 unbind = SUPER, code:16 unbind = SUPER, code:17 bindd = SUPER, code:10, Switch to workspace 1, workspace, 2 bindd = SUPER, code:10, Switch to workspace 1, workspace, 1 bindd = SUPER, code:11, Switch to workspace 2, workspace, 1 bindd = SUPER, code:11, Switch to workspace 2, workspace, 2 bindd = SUPER, code:12, Switch to workspace 3, workspace, 4 bindd = SUPER, code:12, Switch to workspace 3, workspace, 3 bindd = SUPER, code:13, Switch to workspace 4, workspace, 3 bindd = SUPER, code:13, Switch to workspace 4, workspace, 4 bindd = SUPER, code:14, Switch to workspace 5, workspace, 6 bindd = SUPER, code:14, Switch to workspace 5, workspace, 5 bindd = SUPER, code:15, Switch to workspace 6, workspace, 5 bindd = SUPER, code:15, Switch to workspace 6, workspace, 6 bindd = SUPER, code:16, Switch to workspace 7, workspace, 8 bindd = SUPER, code:16, Switch to workspace 7, workspace, 7 bindd = SUPER, code:17, Switch to workspace 8, workspace, 7 bindd = SUPER, code:17, Switch to workspace 8, workspace, 8

rufugee 1y ago

As a long-time Linux full time user, I begrudgingly switched to a mac for company reasons around a decade ago. I've lost a little bit of light in my life ever since, and was constantly fighting macOS to just let me work the way I want to. I've switched back full time to Omarchy, and couldn't be happier. I'll likely eventually land back on NixOS with hyprland and my custom configs, but for now, Omarchy is wonderful. DHH is just the salesman a Linux distro like this needs, and the combination of smart decisions (most menu'd commands just call out to shell scripts behind the scenes) and text-based config make Omarchy a techie's dream. Add something like claude code in your ~/.config directory and you have almost instant and infinite ability to customize. It's so much fun. For any former i3 users, I've found https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3 https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3 to be a very acceptable replacement.