[HN Gopher] Hyprland Crash Course
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Hyprland Crash Course
Author : gchamonlive
Score : 17 points
Date : 2024-03-23 21:40 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| gchamonlive wrote:
| Not very much a crash course but a polishing guide. Sorry about
| the title. Also my first actual post to my blog, hope you enjoy!
| jnsaff2 wrote:
| I've been a sway/i3 user for almost 10 years and when I tried to
| switch to Hyprland I ended up with the realization that once I
| had replicated my sway config there was no advantage over sway
| that I could think of.
|
| This obviously has a strong habit and comfort aspect and should
| not discourage anyone trying Hyprland, especially if they are new
| to tiling WM's.
|
| The exercise itself was not useless, following various Hyprland
| guides I picked up tools here and there that I had not been aware
| of that I integrated into my sway flow.
| gchamonlive wrote:
| I honestly haven't read anything about sway. I didn't give much
| context, but the reason I moved to hyprland was because with
| plasma 6 my workflow basically died, with all my kwin scripts
| suddenly becoming useless.
|
| I asked where I work and many recommended hyprland. After
| giving it a try I saw it was actually very good.
|
| What do you like about sway and what advantages did you hope
| that hyprland had over sway for you to be compelled to move to
| it?
| drakerossman wrote:
| If you don't mind me replying in place of the orginal poster:
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| Sway is just i3 for Wayland, which in turn means you have
| multiple workspaces (which are also potentially mapped to
| multiple monitors). You assign workspace a label (number, or
| text, or emoji), and you may also bind some application to
| always open on that workspace. Or you just get a habit of
| putting specific applications to only specific workspaces.
| Your entire navigation then sits in your muscle memory -
| finger on the mod key (win or alt or ctrl - whatever),
| another finger on the digits row for the workspace index -
| and you're there.
|
| It's a tiling WM, so you don't spend time arranging windows -
| they already take the full desktop real estate evenly split
| between them, and you can also adjust size of each window
| separately. Again, this sits in your muscle memory.
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| Point is - no mouse is needed to navigate through workspaces
| and windows.
|
| You may read my blog post about setting sway up (on NixOS)
| here:
|
| https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-
| con...
| alwayslikethis wrote:
| [delayed]
| stephen wrote:
| Love a tiling WM post! Reading the "twos days to get setup"
| reminds me of fighting a blank xmonad setup back in the day :-),
| and makes me all the more appreciative of Regolith Desktop, a
| super-minimal Ubuntu+i3wm (and sway) setup; everything just
| works, Zoom sharing, multi-window, etc. Recommended!
| gchamonlive wrote:
| And putting effort into adding every feature you need makes me
| appreciate it even more. I don't mean to say that humans derive
| value from suffering, but looking back at some of the headache
| and seeing that they are mostly solved now gives me this cool
| peace of mind. Plus, if anything breaks I know how to solve it.
| It is akin to moving from some batteries included distro like
| pop_os to arch. Nothing against pop, it is a wonderful effort,
| but reading through the documentation and putting your distro
| together gives you way more insight into the inner workings
| which is invaluable for when it breaks.
| cmiller1 wrote:
| Been using Hyprland for about a year on my arch box. I do like
| using it but I don't like that they seem to make breaking changes
| to the config file format regularly. There have been at least
| three time where an update left me with something not functioning
| correctly or a bunch of errors and I had to dig through my config
| file and find what things were no longer compatible with the new
| version.
| gchamonlive wrote:
| Well, that is... Worrying. Can you give specifics about the
| occasions when hyprland broke on you?
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