Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn’t sacrifice on its looks.
It supports multiple layouts, fancy effects, has a very flexible IPC model allowing for a lot of customization, and more.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Config reloaded instantly upon saving.
- Custom bezier curve based animations.
- Dual Kawase blur.
- Drop shadows.
- Rounded corners.
- Gradient borders.
- Fully dynamic workspaces.
- Global keybinds passed to your apps of choice.
- A lot of customization.
- Window/layer fade in/out.
- Tiling/pseudotiling/floating/fullscreen windows.
- Switching workspaces between window modes on the fly.
- Special workspaces (scratchpads).
- Window/monitor rules.
- Socket-based IPC.
- wlr_ext workspaces protocol support.
- Event system for bash scripts.
- Full damage tracking.
- Docks support.
- Drawing tablet support.
- Native IME + Input panels support.
Website: hypr.land
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: vaxerski
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License
Hyprland is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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not based on wlroots anymore
Updated, thanks.