Hyprland on Nix Os

The NixOS module enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly, such as: polkit, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, graphics drivers, fonts, dconf, xwayland, and adding a proper Desktop Entry to your Display Manager.

Make sure to check out the options of the NixOS module.

Nixpkgs

# configuration.nix

{pkgs, ...}: {
  programs.hyprland.enable = true;
}

This will use the Hyprland version that Nixpkgs has.

Flake package

Please enable Cachix before using the flake package, so you don’t have to compile Hyprland yourself.

In case you want to use the development version of Hyprland, you can add it like this:

# flake.nix

{
  inputs.hyprland.url = "github:hyprwm/Hyprland";
  # ...

  outputs = {nixpkgs, ...} @ inputs: {
    nixosConfigurations.HOSTNAME = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      specialArgs = { inherit inputs; }; # this is the important part
      modules = [
        ./configuration.nix
      ];
    };
  } 
}

# configuration.nix

{inputs, pkgs, ...}: {
  programs.hyprland = {
    enable = true;
    package = inputs.hyprland.packages.${pkgs.system}.hyprland;
  };
}

Don’t forget to change the HOSTNAME to your actual hostname!

Flake package, Nix stable

Please enable Cachix before using the flake package, so you don’t have to compile Hyprland yourself.

# configuration.nix

{pkgs, ...}: let
  flake-compat = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat/archive/master.tar.gz";

  hyprland-flake = (import flake-compat {
    src = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/archive/master.tar.gz";
  }).defaultNix;
in {
  programs.hyprland = {
    enable = true;
    package = hyprland-flake.packages.${pkgs.system}.hyprland;
  };
}