ML4W Hyprland Starter 2.0 BETA

Important

These dotfiles are currently being revised and updated. This can lead to side effects during the installation or update.

The ML4W Hyprland Starter package is the perfect starting point for your Hyprland customization experiments. The Hyprland Starter configuration works on all Linux distributions that support the dynamic tiling window manager Hyprland.

You can find configurations here: https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/hyprland-starter/tree/main/dotfiles

Installation

You can install the ML4W Hyprland Starter easily with the Dotfiles Installer from an existing Window Manager or Desktop Environment.

Copy the following url into the Dotfiles Installer.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mylinuxforwork/hyprland-starter/main/hyprland-starter.dotinst

Please run the setup script offered by the Dotfiles Installer to install all dependencies. If your distribution is not supported, please install the following dependencies manually:

• hyprland
• waybar
• rofi-wayland
• alacritty
• dunst
• thunar
• xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
• qt5-wayland
• qt6-wayland
• hyprpaper
• hyprlock
• firefox
• ttf-font-awesome
• vim
• fastfetch
• ttf-fira-sans
• ttf-fira-code
• ttf-firacode-nerd
• jq
• brightnessctl
• networkmanager
• wireplumber

Hyprland does not officially support NVIDIA hardware. But many users have reported a successful installation. Please read: https://wiki.hyprland.org/Nvidia/

Documentation (Wiki)

You can find the complete documentation of the ML4W Starter in the Wiki. Open the Wiki here

Dependencies

The script will install the following packages and the corresponding configurations:

• Window Manager: hyprland
• Status Bar: waybar
• Launcher: rofi-wayland
• Browser: Firefox
• Terminal: kitty
• Notification Service: dunst
• File Manager: Thunar
• xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
• qt5-wayland
• qt6-wayland
• Lock screen: hyprlock

Key Bindings

The following custom key bindings are enabled (can be customized in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf)

• SUPER + RETURN to start terminal alacritty
• SUPER + Q to quit an application
• SUPER + B to start browser
• SUPER + M to exit Hyprland
• SUPER + E to start filemanager
• SUPER + CTRL + RETURN to start launcher rofi
• SUPER + T to toggle floating
• SUPER + F to toggle fullscreen
• SUPER + 1-9 to switch workspaces
• more key bindings in ~/.config/hypr/conf/binds.conf

or after the installation with right mouse click on Apps in the status bar.