Install Wayland and Hyprland

• Install hyprland and launch hyprland
  • hyprland requires wayland and will be installed automatically
• Filebrowser: nemo with gthumb as image viewer
• Terminal: kitty
• Launcher: wofi
• Lockscreen: swaylock
• Screenshot tool: hyprshot
• Event manager: mako
• Automatically lock screen: hypridle

  # As your own user
  sudo pacman -Sy hyprland kitty nemo gthumb wofi swaylock brightnessctl hyprshot mako hypridle
  

My hyprland config file with comments can be fetched here: hyprland.conf

Config file location: ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf

Changes that are very local for me

• Norwegian keyboard layout : kb_layout = no
• Specific sensitivy settings for my Logitec g703 mouse

Changes that might be important for all

• Set scaling to 1 to avoid fuzzy web browser
  • monitor=,preferred,auto,1
• Enable dark mode in launcher drun and filebrowser nemo
  • env = GTK_THEME,Adwaita:dark

Kitty config

My kitty config with comments can be fetched here: kitty.config

Config file location: ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

Most settings can be adjusted with kitten, e.g. themes

kitten themes

• Run once in terminal to enable kitty as terminal in nemo

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec kitty

Important settings (for me) in kitty.conf

• Disable bell: enable_audio_bell no
• Enable cut and paste in kitty terminal without any extra install like xclip or wl-clipboard
  • NOTE: middle click does not work everwhere yet, seems to be different clipboard
  • NOTE FOR VIM: Remember to hold down shift when marking text in vim to copy

map ctrl+c copy_and_clear_or_interrupt
map ctrl+v paste_from_clipboard

Configure hypridle

My hypridle config can be downloaded here: hypridle.conf

Config file location: ~/.config/hypr/hypridle.conf

The important setting here is how long the system shall be idle before it locks (300 seconds) and that swaylock will be called when timer hits. It is possible to stop the automatic lock with the idle-inhibitor in the waybar.

Remember that hypridle must be started in hyprland config like this: exec-once = hypridle

Configure hyprshot

Add keyboard shortcut in hyprland.conf and add hyprshot.desktop so wofi finds it.

Location of desktop file: ~/.local/share/applications/hyprshot.desktop

Install and configure waybar

Wiki page: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki

sudo pacman -Sy waybar

• Remember to add exec-once = waybar to hyprland.conf

My config files can be found here config.jsonc and style.css

Config files must be copied (or linked here): ~/.config/waybar/

In addition power_menu.xml is neccessary to get a power button on the far right in the waybar. Same configfile location as above.

Defaults for config files can be found in /etc/xdg/waybar/.

NOTE: the below font otf-font-awesome is required to get the icons in the waybar. This is explicitly stated in the default config files, but easy to miss.

Fonts

sudo pacman -Sy noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-extra noto-fonts-emoji otf-font-awesome