Options & Overrides

You can override the package through .override or .overrideAttrs. This is easily achievable on NixOS or Home Manager.

Package options

These are the default options that the Hyprland package is built with. These can be changed by setting the appropriate option to true/false.

Package

(pkgs.hyprland.override { # or inputs.hyprland.packages.${pkgs.system}.hyprland
  enableXWayland = true;
  enableNvidiaPatches = false;
})

NixOS & HM modules

programs.hyprland = { # or wayland.windowManager.hyprland
  enable = true;
  xwayland.enable = true;
  enableNvidiaPatches = false;
};

Options descriptions

XWayland

XWayland is enabled by default in the Nix package. You can disable it either in the package itself, or through the module options.

XWayland HiDPI

See XWayland.

Nvidia Patches

Nvidia is notorious for not working by default with wlroots. That’s why we patch wlroots.

In the NixOS and Home Manager modules, you can enable the Nvidia patches using programs.hyprland.enableNvidiaPatches and wayland.windowManager.hyprland.enableNvidiaPatches, respectively.

Using Nix repl

If you’re using Nix (and not NixOS or Home Manager) and you want to override, you can do it like this

$ nix repl
nix-repl> :lf "github:hyprwm/Hyprland"
nix-repl> :bl outputs.packages.x86_64-linux.hyprland.override {enableNvidiaPatches = true;} # option = value

Then you can run Hyprland from the built path.