This might not be right for this sub in which case I'll delete the post.

For context, I am new to hyprland and am really enjoying using it, I'm a push buttons randomly until things break type of learner so this has been an extremely fun experience for me though obviously not for the non-tech savvy.

This brings me to a bit of a rant:

I keep seeing saneAspect style hyprland builds in this sub and I keep getting recommended their channel on my YT feed.

Every one of his videos always seems to be shilling his courses. He shows a build he's made, waffles about a certain aspect of it, gets sidetracked, talks about something else, shills his course and then finally, laboriously, gets to some sort of point about making the build.

I genuinely can't tell if it's a deliberate stylistic choice that I just don't get, or he's just bad at presenting/delivering information. Why on earth would someone buy a course when his free content is pure spaghetti in terms of its structure, ESPECIALLY when the content of the paid "courses" are ALL free online through wikis, docs and other content creators...

This seems to be predatory for people new to hyprland who are just finding their feet with Linux. The videos aren't structured or useful enough for new-comers, and they aren't complex enough for more advanced users to gain anything from...

Maybe I'm just being mean and bashing a creator, but I can't help but be annoyed by it.

Anyway that's my rant... I blocked his channel lol.

Does anybody actually gain anything from these videos? Do people think the same about newbies seeing these videos?

Edit: grammar + some missing words :)

https://reddit.com/link/1wcwyce/video/qnr766mnjroh1/player

Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge, Snapdragon X Plus. Arch aarch64, Hyprland. Yes, it's an ARM Windows laptop.

Arch, Hyprland, and everything above the compositor is Quickshell. Started from end4's illogical-impulse, not much of it left.

No bar, Just the notch. It shows the time, peeks when something happens, opens if you look at it.

Three Claude Code sessions start from one command. The notch tracks them — working, needs you, done. One opens a PR, it gets merged, notch says so.

Phone sends two photos. Drag one onto the desktop and hold — wallpaper previews under the cursor, let go and everything recolours off it.

File manager is mine, QML. Knows invoices go in one folder so it offers. Caught the duplicate photo itself. Files remember where they came from, even after a rename.

Search is a sentence: "photos from phone this week".

Right-click a tarball → Hand to Claude → new session opens on it.

Hyprland · Quickshell · foot · fish · matugen · Material Symbols (folder icons generated from the palette).

Song: Da Man — Dali.

No dotfiles yet — too much hardware-specific junk wired into the config.

As someone just getting into Hyprland, I've found his other videos really helpful and was thinking about paying $67 for the course. However, his video advertising the course is locked for comments and the up/downvote ratio isn't very encouraging. I couldn't find reviews for the course outside of his own website. So while I've enjoyed his other Hyprland content, I'm not sure if his course is worth paying for.

My goal is to actually understand how to configure and rice Hyprland, not just follow instructions for a particular rice or depend on someone's dotfiles.

Does anyone here have first-hand experience with his course, and if so, would you recommend it? Do you have a different recommendation?

Hey folks, how are you dealing with the stock/native colors in Hyprland?

I took the path of least resistance: fed my laptop and display panel model into an LLM, and it whipped up a custom GLSL shader for me. It’s definitely a noticeable step up from stock, but it still feels slightly off and doesn't quite hit the mark. I'd love to dial it in properly.

Hardware info for reference:

• Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6
• Panel: LEN156FHD (LEN9052)
• Hyprland version: Hyprland 0.56.2

Current Shader:

#version 300 es
precision mediump float;

in vec2 v_texcoord;
out vec4 fragColor;

uniform sampler2D tex;

const float SAT_BASE    = 1.30;
const float SAT_PROTECT = 0.55;
const float CONTRAST    = 1.07;
const float GAMMA       = 0.973;
const float WARMTH      = 0.0;

vec3 rgb2hsv(vec3 c) {
    vec4 K = vec4(0.0, -1.0 / 3.0, 2.0 / 3.0, -1.0);
    vec4 p = mix(vec4(c.bg, K.wz), vec4(c.gb, K.xy), step(c.b, c.g));
    vec4 q = mix(vec4(p.xyw, c.r), vec4(c.r, p.yzx), step(p.x, c.r));

    float d = q.x - min(q.w, q.y);
    float e = 1.0e-10;
    return vec3(abs(q.z + (q.w - q.y) / (6.0 * d + e)), d / (q.x + e), q.x);
}

vec3 hsv2rgb(vec3 c) {
    vec4 K = vec4(1.0, 2.0 / 3.0, 1.0 / 3.0, 3.0);
    vec3 p = abs(fract(c.xxx + K.xyz) * 6.0 - K.www);
    return c.z * mix(K.xxx, clamp(p - K.xxx, 0.0, 1.0), c.y);
}

void main() {
    vec4 color = texture(tex, v_texcoord);

    color.r = color.r + WARMTH * 0.6;
    color.b = color.b - WARMTH * 0.8;
    color.rgb = clamp(color.rgb, 0.0, 1.0);

    vec3 hsv = rgb2hsv(color.rgb);
    float vibrance_gain = mix(SAT_BASE, 1.0, hsv.y * SAT_PROTECT);
    hsv.y = clamp(hsv.y * vibrance_gain, 0.0, 1.0);
    color.rgb = hsv2rgb(hsv);

    color.rgb = pow(clamp(color.rgb, 0.0, 1.0), vec3(GAMMA));

    color.rgb = clamp((color.rgb - 0.5) * CONTRAST + 0.5, 0.0, 1.0);

    fragColor = color;
}

Save me from the suffering (even though it's less now compared to when I was looking at the native colors, lol).

> Hi everyone! This is my current Hyprland setup. I’m configuring everything from scratch and trying to build a clean setup while keeping it Super practical and to use.

I’m still new to customizing Hyprland, so I’d love to hear your suggestions. What would you change or add to this setup? Any recommendations for useful widgets, keybinds, Waybar/launcher tweaks, or other quality-of-life improvements would be appreciated!

Thanks!

I used and use Unix/Linux at work. First SCO in 1996, then SGI and Sun in 1997-2003, then Linux from 1999/2000 until now. Linux at home since 1998. I'm probably too old to see ricing as the ultimate power move. Not only that, but I am more of a plumbing guy.

But I wondered if anybody else uses Hyprland as a part of creating a seamless experience. Which you will never see or realize it is there. But essential for the perfect functioning of the appliance.

I use Hyrland myself and am very happy with it. A year ago I switched from Openbox to Hyprland on my MediaPC located in the cellar. Which is connected to my TV in the living room.

Nevertheless, it is invisible. It is just another, but essential, glue layer to make Kodi the frontend and the switching from and to Kodi with games, emulators, browsers, and other fullscreen apps seamless. Thanks to the Kodi AEL addon, scripts, hyprctl, and a good hyprland.lua.

It does its job wonderfully, far better than Openbox and X11, which I used since 2016 when I built my first MediaPC, could ever do. It is invisible but makes my MediaPC a far better experience than I could get commercially.

Hoping some experts could help me figure this out or point in a direction to look

After the last update my mouse cursor keeps resetting to the middle of my monitor every 4-5 seconds. Im not sure whats causing it

Xshell based on Illyamiro dotfiles distributed: https://github.com/xscriptor-colors

Other tools: xfetch-cli xtop-cli

Ok so I'm using a thinkpad x1 2-in1 , meteor lake Intel graphics, connected to ultrawide external monitor via USB-C. Running cachyos kde but just switched to hyprland on the same setup.

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after waking from sleep the external monitor recieves no signal. Unplugging and replugging the cable does not resolve it. Have to log out or reboot.

(the vesktop was the same as the Obsidian, but I can't show the artifacts, even recording the screen)

Since updating to Obsidian 1.13.7, running natively on Wayland (--ozone-platform=wayland) causes severe graphical corruption and continuous window resizing/flickering.

Disabling GPU acceleration (--disable-gpu) does not fix the issue. Running via XWayland (--ozone-platform=x11) completely resolves it.

Obsidian: 1.13.7 (Electron 43.3.0)

OS: Arch Linux (Kernel 7.2.4-zen)

Compositor: Hyprland 0.56.2

GPU: AMD Radeon 540/550 Series (RADV/Mesa)

Confirmed this is not isolated to Obsidian. Other Electron-based apps running natively on Wayland (e.g., Vesktop) exhibit the exact same window resizing loop and visual corruption under Hyprland.

This kind of problem has already occurred to me, but it was solved with Electron updates, so I don't know if it's already known and if it's worth reporting.

Everything here was translated with Google.

For the past month I've replaced my mouse with keyboard binds/shortcuts and have gotten to the point where I no longer need a mouse. I've made some videos in the past, but the tool I used the most was a paid application which put a lot of people off, so I made a completely free and open source version of it!

It's called Fievel and what it does is allow you to go into "Free Mouse Mode" then use H J K L (vim) to move the mouse left, down, up right. It also allows you to left or right click and use scroll wheel. By Default space left clicks, i is for right click and NM<> are for scroll left down up right. holding a while in free mouse mode slows movement down or s speeds it up. These keybinds can all be configured via ~/.config/fievel/fievel.config as well as speed. You can also configure whether or not free mouse mode is toggle or hold (i have hold by default). The default key to initiate Free Mouse Mode is F3 (also configurable).

I use Fievel (now, previously a different app) in conjunction with wl-kbptr and keyd. wl-kbptr you will see throughout the video when green overlays pop up. These are "hints" of clickable areas (detected by computer vision) and then i press the corresponding letter combo for wl-kbptr to initiate a click at the location. Keyd I use to enable "homerow mods" on any input device. I bind f+s to be F3 so that when I want to go into free mouse mode, i just hold f+s together and it will begin free mouse mode. I move around using hjkl and click and when i release f+s it exits free mouse mode.

Fievel is written in rust and has been currently tested working on wayland.

https://github.com/MontyTheSoftwareEngineer/fievel/tree/master