Nixos and Hyprland - Best Match Ever

hyperland an amazing compositor that has experienced tremendous growth since its creation last year however since it is based on Weyland some long time ex-users have been hesitant to try it out today we shall take a look at a simple and straightforward NYX OS hyperlens setup that includes all the necessary components for a seamless transition so yes unlike all the standard window managers like bspvm I3 awesome or DVM hyperland is actually a valent protocol based compositor which means that it doesn't rely on the X server there are some advantages and disadvantages to it right now but undeniably Weyland is the future so let's begin the setup with enabling hyperlund itself if you have a not Nvidia system all you have to do is enable this option yes this is it only one line on Nvidia however you also want to enable special patches those two environment variables and a couple of Hardware options blr no Hardware cursors disables Hardware cursors you might not need this option but on my work machine for example mouse cursor becomes invisible without it just check how it works for you the sneaks OS ozone VL here hints your electron apps like Discord to use Wayland it should help you if you see a black screen in those opengl obviously enables opengl and the Nvidia mode setting is required by most valent compositors on Nexus if you plan on running any X applications which you probably do also enable this option here after rebuild and restart you should have your hyperlens available in display manager but don't do it just yet I plan this feature Rich but you probably want some additional software with it like a bar for example two standard choices for hyperland are way bar if you want something that works out of the box and is quite customizable and alcavar's wacky widgets if you want to have a completely DIY solution we're gonna go with the first one because El covers like a Regis would require its own video just to get started with the basics adding packages.way bar to your system packages should do but to have workspaces displayed correctly on hyperlens you also want to add a special override of attributes now you might not need this step depending on when you are watching this video but adding it won't do any harm anyway some other useful software pieces that you definitely want to have with hyperlund are a notification demon like danced or Maco X users should be familiar with the first one and second one is pure valent we will take a closer look at one of them later in the video they depend on leave notify so add that to your packages too desktop portals which handle your desktop program's interactions between each other screen sharing link opening file opening and such as an example I've added xdg desktop portal gtk but you could choose from any other one available in NYX packages these options right here which enable your sound if you've recently installed Nexus you should have them enabled by default by fire is also used on valent for screen sharing one of these wallpaper demons they all are great and have unique features but we're gonna take a closer look at swww as a confident terminal user you also want to have a great terminal emulator I've compiled a small list of my favorite ones but you should choose the one that suits your workflow the best ITI is listed first here because that's what hyperlan has set as a default with standard config so unless you have a radio config just put it there and remove later and of course an app launcher the menu is not available on valent but all the cool guys are using rofi anyway rophie Wayland is the Weyland compatible rophie package or you can choose Wolfie which is the gtk rophie version hyperland Wiki also suggests you try out P menu puzzle or toffee which are all available in next packages don't forget to add your favorite browser text editor messaging apps and that should suffice for our first boot this is what you're gonna see after booting up your hyperlan desktop for the first time at the top piperland will suggest you to edit its configuration file so let's do exactly that like I mentioned previously by default hyperlund assumes that you are using Kitty so let's open it by pressing super plus Q navigate to your dot config hyperdirectory where you will see the hyperlan.com file edit it with your favorite Text Editor to remove the nasty message we need to comment this Auto generated line if you scroll down you can also see all of your key bindings listed here to launch your application without opening a terminal we're gonna add rophie here like this you can edit other options to your liking the configuration is really not that difficult however if you'd like me to create an advanced hyperlink configuration tutorial please let me know in the comment section but now we want to actually make use of our other software let's begin by adding this line at the bottom of our hyperlink configuration file it will call a batch script on Startup so we can put all of the stuff there use Touch command to create a file you can also call it any other name you want but don't forget to mod it so it is executable here's what the file should look like we are initializing wallpaper Daemon and later setting the image to any path on your system I've also included network manager applet which is this handy thing right here waybar and Dunst are also here I've added ampersands to the end of each line to make them non-blocking make sure to also have slash user slash Bean slash and Bash here because nixos doesn't have Apache available in slash bin directory doing this is also a great practice on any other register now restart hyperlan by pressing super M or reboot your system this is how your newly acquired bar should look like take some time to customize it all of the documentation is available on the internet but if you want to see an advanced Weber configuration video please let me know here you can also see the command to make screenshots on your railout desktop now all of the basic stuff is set up all that's left is to tweak everything to your liking as you can see setting it up on Nexus is extremely easy and you don't risk to break your system by replacing some important component because you can always roll back my advice is to leave your leftover desktop environment option set to true for now because if you are not sure which software you are going to need it will probably be there already and now my favorite part of the video the one where I tell you how thankful I am and mention the subscription thing this time I also want to tell you about the Discord server which I'm going to make as soon as we hit 1000 subscribers that's not an unbeatable goal I think but more of a reason for me to delay it a bit because I'm constantly busy make sure to leave a like comment and expect more videos about Linux and Nyx thank you again for watching and see you

Channel: Vimjoyer

Views: 106,779

Keywords: Linux, NixOS, Hyprland, wayland, tutorial, distro, command line, customize linux system

Id: 61wGzIv12Ds

Length: 7min 13sec (433 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 19 2023