Hyprland on NixOS

Nix

Hyprland on NixOS

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.

(Required) NixOS Module: enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly
(Optional) Home-manager module: lets you declaratively configure Hyprland

# configuration.nix

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

This will use the Hyprland version that Nixpkgs has.

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!

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;
  };
}

    
  

Fixing problems with themes

If your themes for mouse cursor, icons or windows don’t load correctly, see the relevant section in Hyprland on Home Manager.

Hyprland on Home Manager Hyprland on other distros