Is Hyprland a good WM choice if I can make stacking / floating workflow work?
I've been on the fence since I've been trying Hyprland. What I want out of a window manager / DE is lots of window customization settings (borders, animations, etc.), & having configuration inside one file or one directory with hot-reloading (I'm switching from KDE since its config files all over the place). Hyprland is very popular among WM users with a large ecosystem, though I prefer stacking rather than tiling. I can make it work with some window rules, and shell scripts using hyprctl & jq.
I'm wondering how many little things I will need to fix / figure out. For instance, when I open the firefox bookmarks library with CTRL SHIFT O
. When that window is open but not focused, and not on top, if I press CTRL SHIFT O
again on a DE it comes back to the top, but not on Hyprland. I could probably find a fix for that?
I might be answering my own question but I really want to hear thoughts.
Using hyprctl
hyprctl is a utility for controlling some parts of the compositor from a CLI or a script. It should automatically be installed along with Hyprland.wiki.hyprland.org
Joe
in reply to TheTwelveYearOld • • •I use labwc .. it's basically OpenBox as a Wayland Compositor. Some things/programs work better than Hyprland, other things worse.
I found a patch that allows manual tiling and focus (eg. alt-tabbing just for windows in the left half of the screen), which is cool.
Scriptability isn't there, but the code looks pretty clean.
The config file is similar to OpenBox. I miss multi-layer keybindings though.