An improved Hyprland deployment

collection of dot config files for hyprland with a simple install script for a fresh Arch linux with yay

You can grab the config files and install packages by hand with this commnad

yay -S hyprland-bin kitty waybar-hyprland swww \ 
swaylock-effects wofi wlogout mako xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland-git \
swappy grim slurp thunar polkit-gnome python-requests pamixer \
pavucontrol brightnessctl bluez bluez-utils blueman \
network-manager-applet gvfs thunar-archive-plugin file-roller btop \
pacman-contrib starship ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd noto-fonts-emoji 
lxappearance xfce4-settings sddm-git sddm-sugar-candy-git

Or you can use the attached script "set-hypr" to install everything for you.

Below is a list of the packages that would be installed

• hyprland-bin: This is the Hyprland compositor
• kitty: This is the default terminal
• waybar-hyprland: This is a fork of waybar with Hyprland workspace support
• swww: This is used to set a desktop background image
• swaylock-effects: This allows for the locking of the desktop its a fork that adds some editional visual effects
• wofi: This is an application launcher menu
• wlogout: This is a logout menu that allows for shutdown, reboot and sleep
• mako: This is a graphical notification daemon
• xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland-git: xdg-desktop-portal backend for hyprland
• swappy: This is a screenshot editor tool
• grim: This is a screenshot tool it grabs images from a Wayland compositor
• slurp: This helps with screenshots, it selects a region in a Wayland compositor
• thunar: This is a graphical file manager
• polkit-gnome: needed to get superuser access on some graphical appliaction
• python-requests: needed for the weather module script to execute
• pamixer: This helps with audio settings such as volume
• pavucontrol: GUI for managing audio and audio devices
• brightnessctl: used to control monitor and keyboard bright level
• bluez: the bluetooth service
• bluez-utils: command line utilities to interact with bluettoth devices
• blueman: Graphical bluetooth manager
• network-manager-applet: Applet for managing network connection
• gvfs: adds missing functionality to thunar such as automount usb drives
• thunar-archive-plugin: Provides a front ent for thunar to work with compressed files
• file-roller: Backend set of tools for working with compressed files
• btop: Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
• pacman-contrib: adds additional tools for pacman. needed for showing system updates in the waybar
• starship: allows to customize the shell prompt
• ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd: Som nerd fonts for icons and overall look
• noto-fonts-emoji: fonts needed by the weather script in the top bar
• lxappearance: used to set GTK theme
• xfce4-settings: set of tools for xfce, needed to set GTK theme
• sddm-git: developement version of SDDM which is a display manager for graphical login
• sddm-sugar-candy-git: an sddm theme my theme is based on (copy of)