Thanks for the coverage Brodie :) I don't think I have much to add to this one, so I'll just say thanks again to everyone who's been supporting hyprland in any way shape or form :) Ad meliora!

I just made a contribution to the wiki today hehe :). I was frsutrated to find there was no documentation on swapping caps lock and escape

6:15 Whoever named hyprgrass needs a medal for greatest pun right now XD

Oooh, so I contributed to the Wiki. Which is hilarious if you think about it. lol

I think the last thing a developer needs to spend their time on is Discord moderation, that's one area where non-coders could step in and provide a lot of value. And the Wiki.

Thanks for highlighting this issue. He's a gem and there are many like him that we just take for granted.

just installed hyprland last night, using GDM as my display manager, which works flawlessly. I'm very much in awe of how absurdly customisable it is, and I can't wait to develop my configs.

DWL MENTIONED LETS GOO

"To put it in the nicest way possible, he is an absolute psycho" ❤😄 Huge respect!

Hyprland is awesome ! I've been daily driving it for a couple of weeks now and i hope the project find the help it needs.

Thanks for the video. It has been around 3 months I started using Hyprland. It is really great. Before I used Sway for long time. I feel a bit sad to hear that Hyprland is needing help. I would find a way to help Hyprland whatever I can despite I am a normal user.

Picks a random issue, it is a gigachad issue...

GNOME was my first DE and I used it for most of my Linux experiences. I switched to Plasma for literally one week, and it was fine, but it just felt very windows-y. Recently, I switched to hyprland and I have never looked back. Hyprland + waybar is literally the best personal computing experience I've ever had and its not even close!

Wait, hycov is exactly what I’ve been looking for to move my setup to hyprland! Perfect timing. As for wayfire, as a compositor it’s fine, but it’s lacking proper taskbar implementations

Ah, Hycov looks up my alley in terms of workflow.

One year in Linux (as of June 2024). Hyprland is by far the best environment for me. Vaxryy's exhaustive work is commendable. I hope he gets some peace and relaxation.

I wish I could help, but I know nothing about wayland protocol. I been using it since november 2022 and its growth has been amazing since then. I wish all the best to vaxry and his future dev companions, and I hope 1 soul would bring that remote mouse support for KDE connect this year

When it comes to a fork of Hyprland, I suspect the intention most people have is to produce release branches so that it can be included in stable distributions. Not to take over the project, indeed it would probably help the project out. That’s what happened eventually with the Linux kernel afterall.

Hyprland for the ‘average’ user is a nightmare. Average users dont generally have to build their ui from zero, they don’t open text based config files, and they have no idea what to do without a traditional app launcher or a title bar to drag. (Yes I love Hyprland, no, it’s not the “best for the average user”)

I've only used Hyprland a handful of times. Each time was short lived (but I lasted progressively longer each time I try) as I kept running into issues with waybar. I'm also not very good at ricing, so I'll probably be stuck waiting for some more good dotfile setups/install scripts that's fairly user friendly, and/or Hyprland gets a custom pre-config option that has some of the basics up and running within waybar. I've recommended Hyprland to a friend and they really got into it, I'll pass the blogpost/video along to them!

I've contributed code but I'm still on openbox/Xorg. Mostly because I haven't had the time to get the rest of what I want into Hyprland :D Vaxry is just way too 'on'. From experience, you actually don't need to sacrifice as much as you are. All that negative will be there regardless, so get some positive by not being eyeballs deep in it 365 days a year. Progress may be slower, but that's better than lots of progress up front and a dead project at some uncertain point down the road.

Maybe this will mean it will become more viable in the future. I have always had problems with waybar or obs with it or having to mess around with wlroots installations. For now I will stick with sway, especially for the lower memory usage on my soldered ram laptop

Hi Brodie, could you cover the Niri wayland compositor? seems really interesting

Trying to contribute to wayland projects always makes me feel like an idiot. I just can't understand the protocol from the limited explanations available and really have no idea what wlroots is doing. I'm sure I could probably understand it well enough to contribute with enough persistence but I wonder if anyone else feels the same way and if the existing docs is just not easy to understand.

I hope this project and developer does not get forked or goes away

Time to work

So I started getting Linux about 3 months ago. I started with pop os and now I'm buying a laptop and I want to put Arch Linux with Hyprland on it. When I start understanding things better, I would totally do it.

I switched recently to Hyprland... Actually I switched to Linux recently, so I did start with Plasma, and now that I'm more comfortable I did go for Hyprland... I like the workflow better, the simplicity of the environment... I'm missing some things thought: - The ability to minimize an application thought I'm okay with simple moving it to another workspace so this is like whatever and less important I think. - The ability to have some way to check what applications are running in witch workspace.... Like sometimes I can go away for some time and then I forgot in what workspace is a specific application. (For example if I hover my workpace 3 in my waybar it showing a popup with what apps are there) - Better ways to customize things, like change the Theme entirely (Icons, controls, fonts, colors, wellcome screen etc... ) - Keybind tool to configure keybindings in a more friendly way. - Maybe "desktop" widgets... I know this is not a desktop, but maybe find a way to add a widget to the work area and pretend it's part of the background - Wallpaper engine wallpapers from steam :( this one is the one that I miss the most xD I like my animated wallpapers... and most of them are not videos so not even mpv wallpaper work. - not related to hyprland... more of a wayland issue....... better nvidea integration, this thing with nvidea still have some annoying issues Unfortunatly my linux knowledge is not yet enough to contribute... but I'm a sofware developer... I'm willing to contribute if someone puts me up to what I need to get started.

2:29 You are telling me someone can be THAT PRODUCTIVE????

What is the status / down-low on wlroots with HDR and DPI? Or for that matter any and all of the other Wayland tools. I know Cosmic said they'd do HDR.

I tried giving it a try… I just keep running into bugs that make it unusable on both my amd and nvidia systems

Im interested in maintaining Xorg, but where do I go to learn the skills required to do so?

im at kde now last time i checked hyprland was so buggy but now after kde 6 comes out will switch to gentoo hyprland

The problem is, I don't understand C/C++ production code. It's all alien to me. Yes, we can all do basic calculator app on it or something. But to read a production code with 100K SoC is a hurdle itself. On top of that, I have to learn the Wayland's APIs, the GPU APIs, POSIX Apis, different libraries and plenty more. And this guy is going to University? As a student? Where did he have the time and resources to learn all that?

He kinda reminds me of Erik Dubois of Arco. 🙂

can confirm Vax replies fast. I submitted a PR to make an addition to the wiki and Vax commented before TWO MINUTES had passed

Hmm, I've been running hyprland for a bit and was going to report a few crashes, but maybe its time I start looking through those core dumps myself.

I just wanted to mention that Labwc is the best floating WM on Wayland by far. (Yeah I know 'on and on and on..') It's configured the same like Openbox, but unlike Openbox it has perfectly working Aero edge snap & lots of cool options like a tearing mode that actually works. (and no, unfortunately tearing is broken on Hyprland, the cursor has framerate problems) -- As for Hyprland most of the bugs that affected me were fixed over the past 3 months, Vaxxy is really insane.. For me to migrate to Hyprland as my main envo two issues would need to be fixed. One of them is the aforementioned tearing mode and the other is the mouse latency. Not only is there added latency, but depending on various factors that latency is fluctuating. This however is more of a Wayland / WLR problem, but I'm not optimistic about a timely resolution.

Huh. As a developer, I find it surprising to hear that "I don't know any other developer who likes to write documentation" O.o I quite like doing that, as that accompanies the art of writing the code pretty well, and later on myself read it often as forget specifics of what worked on. If I get more energy to work on something outside my job, wanted to try contributing to Hyprland development as well.

if only this was C this however seriously encourages me to *seriously* learn c++ (I know, maybe, a bit more than the basics...)

I've been wanting to try hyprland out but kept lazily delaying. Now I'm extra motivated (after all, can't contribute to a project I'm not even passingly using).

For a few days now, I've been wondering why there is always an empty cereal bowl in your videos. Only now noticed that's just a large tea cup. Here I thought you were some sort of cereal connoisseur or addict....:D

honestly, I'd try contributing to Hyprland if I could switch to it properly, because I LOVE it but I get way too screwed by my GPU on Wayland, and working on a Wayland compositor while not being able to properly run it SUCKS :((( Best of luck to vaxry and everyone involved with the project!

Green square = important work done!

Hyprland best

So i use hyprland but i don't use c++ so i will just watch from the sidelines

I'm a C++ developer but after coding 8 hours at work I don't usually have much interest in doing coding on my free time

Ya i run hyperland

Im trying using hyprland last 2 yeras. but Nvidia. I need CUDA for AI and machine learning. Im using xmonad one time, chadwm, awesome, but hyprland is the best for me.

Jesus christ, I wish I could code good enough to actually contribute something

What maintaining does Xorg need after RH? Will working code suddenly stop working?

Can someone help me with wayland issues on Linux and horrible battery life. Powertop, auto cpufreq is installed. Intel pentium silver n6000 Intel jasperlake 32eus 8gb ram 256gb storage.

I use arch btw

Hyprland looked amazing, until I saw the interview you did with the main dev, and I don't want to get anywhere near code made by such a person.

Why does it have to be C++ ;__;

give this guy some money for a mod and intern lol

I like hyprland but I rather spend my precious time on other projects where owners are nicer persons

Twentyfith?

Eleventeenth?

If only the community around it wasn't... such bleh :/

Wayland is really cool, just not the community xD

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Brodie, you are aware that Vaxry, the lead developer has CP, right?

fifth?

When someone shows me how to run Hyprland in a Distrobox I'll be happy to contribute, but for now I cannot run any distro that's compatible. Sigh.

can I say racial slurs on my pull requests?

First?

Of course they need help when the lazy wayland devs can't even implement common API and are forcing everyone to reimplement the same thing over and over again needlessly.

isn't that the project where the dev is against "SJWs"

No vulkan me no like

I would love to use and like hyprland.... Shame that the developers and community managers are transphobic though

I would help. but also the maintainer is kinda really horrible? like outright defending nazis and bigotry and a lot of other stuff as well. and considering you had him on the podcast and now this? ehhhh

Hypand Is Shit Just Use Dwl

I don't like wayland, so I am not gonna participate in that crap.

SwayFX is my goto. Maybe both SwayFX & Hyprland devs could get together and create "Swayland" 🤔

Well, I use it… Daily… Recently hopped to Nobara, after years or Arch-ing… (out of curiosity) 13:33 and here we go again… 😁 hypr-bara. Simply once you get used to all key bindings… well… 😇 And for the developer - hats down and deep bow!! Respect 🫡