Master tutorial
If you are coming to Hyprland for the first time, this is the main tutorial to read.
This tutorial covers everything you need to get things going. It links to other pages where necessary.
Install Hyprland
See Installation and come back here once you have successfully installed Hyprland.
Install kitty
(default terminal emulator). This is available in most distros'
repositories.
Nvidia?
Please take a look at The Nvidia page before launching. It has information regarding the needed environment and tweaks.
VM?
In a VM, make sure you have 3D acceleration enabled in your virtio
config (or
virt-manager
) otherwise Hyprland will not work.
You can also passthru a GPU to make it work.
Please bear in mind 3D acceleration in VMs may be pretty slow.
Launching Hyprland
Hyprland can be executed by typing Hyprland
in your tty.
Systemd users can also start Hyprland, using uwsm. This is the recommended method of launching Hyprland on systemd-based distros, as it provides additional features such as xdg-autostart support, launching any application as a systemd-unit with uwsm app
helper, and the ability to enable services for programs that rely on a graphical session and provide such services (e.g waybar). See uwsm page for further instructions.
root
permissions (don’t sudo
)You can see some launch flags by doing Hyprland -h
, these include setting the
config path, ignoring a check for the above, etc.
Login managers are not officially supported, but here’s a short compatibility list:
- SDDM → Works flawlessly. Install sddm ⩾ 0.20.0 or the latest git version (or sddm-git from AUR) to prevent SDDM bug 1476 (90s shutdowns).
- GDM → Works with the caveat of crashing Hyprland on the first launch.
- greetd → Works flawlessly, especially with ReGreet.
- ly → Works poorly.
DE-like pre-configured setups
Do you want to just get Hyprland pre-configured like a DE, without making your own configuration from scratch?
Check out the Preconfigured setups page to see a few options.
These dotfiles should do everything for you, and have their own tutorials as well.
If you choose to use those, you can skip the next step. However, it’s still recommended to read all the points below it. They’ll give you recommended apps, replacements for old X11 software, information about configuring displays, etc.
In Hyprland with the default config
You’re good to go with your adventure, technically.
Use ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
(example config).
If you want the best experience with less hassle googling, keep reading.
Critical software
See the Must-have Software page for the crucial things to make Wayland / Hyprland / other apps work correctly.
Monitors config
See Configuring Hyprland page to learn all about configuring your displays.
Apps / X11 replacements
See the Useful Utilities page and the Sway wiki page about that. You can also visit the Awesome-Hyprland repository for a more comprehensive list.
Fully configure Hyprland
Head onto the Configuring Hyprland page to learn all about configuring Hyprland to your liking.
Cursors
Cursors are a notorious pain to set up when you don’t know how. See this FAQ entry
If your cursor does not appear, see this FAQ entry
Themes
Since Hyprland is not a fully-fledged Desktop Environment, you will need to use
tools such as lxappearance
or nwg-look
(recommended) for GTK, and qt5ct
/
qt6ct
for their respective Qt versions. Some older applications may also
require qt4ct
.
Force apps to use Wayland
A lot of apps will use Wayland by default. Chromium (and other browsers based on
it, or Electron) don’t. You need to pass
--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
to them or use
.conf
files where possible. Chromium-based browsers also should have a toggle
in chrome://flags
. Search for “ozone” and select Wayland. If you are on
NixOS you can also set the environment variable NIXOS_OZONE_WL=1
in your
configuration.
For most electron apps, you should put the above in
~/.config/electron-flags.conf
. Note that VSCode is known not to work with
it.
A few more environment variables for forcing Wayland mode are documented here.
You can check whether an app is running in xwayland or not with
hyprctl clients
.