Hyprland Tiling Compositor

Hyprland is an elegant and high performance Tiling window compositor for Wayland on Linux.

Hyprland is not a full desktop environment, unlike KDE or Gnome. Additional tools can be installed to make a complete desktop environment.

Try Hyprland with the NWG Live ISO

NWG Live ISO provides a simple way to try Hyprland and the set of tools provided by NWG-Shell to give a Desktop Environment experience based on Gnome.

Install

Hyprland is a quickly evolving project and issues may occur

NWG Live ISODebian LinuxArch Linux

NWG-ISO is a simple way to try out hyprland and the NWG Shell tools, providing an experience close to a Desktop Environment like Gnome or KDE.

NWG Live ISO will run from memory. Once running, the Live ISO can also be used to install Hyprland & NWG tools on the permanent storage of the computer.

Create USB Startup

dd bs=4M if=nwg-live-2024.10.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_Flash_Disk_<id>-0:0 conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress

Arch Linux ISO command line untilities

Practicalli Journal - notes on Hyprland with Debian Linux

Hyprland on Debian - scripts to review

hyprland on debian script

The hyprland packages are on version 0.41 at time of writing, the current release is 0.45 and has significant changes

Install a minimal Arch Linux OS from the ISO and setup Arch with Hyprland using the archinstall

Install the nwg-shell package to add tools for a Desktop Environment experience on top of Gnome.

pacman -S nwg-shell

Run the nwg-shell install script to configure the NWG tools

nwg-shell-installer -w -hypr

Set nwg-hello as the greeter (login screen) in /etc/greetd/config.toml

/etc/greetd/config.toml

[default_session]
command = "Hyprland -c /etc/nwg-hello/hyprland.conf"

Arch Linux greetd.service