🌌 Hyprland + Eww dotfiles

Sections

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation Guide
  • Yay (AUR Helper)
  • Hyprland and Dependencies
  • Packages
  • Zsh shell with Zap
  • Copying config with Stow
  • Downloading a Nerd Font
  • GTK-XFCE Theme and Icons
• Other dotfiles that inspired this rice

Features

• Light/Dark Mode
• Night Light
• Color Picker
• Dynamic wallpaper colors
• Screenshot full and area

Requirements

• Fresh installed Arch Linux
• Archinstall with Sway Profile and Pipewire

Pipewire is required, screen sharing won't work without it.

Installation Guide

Warning

This installation guide is for my future self. Some steps might not be completed, updated or even tested. Proceed if you know what you are doing.

Yay (AUR Helper)

This part is optional, you can use pacman or paru, I like yay.

pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
# delete yay files after the completion (optional) 
cd .. && rm -rf yay

Hyprland and Dependencies

This installation is going to take a while depending on your system.

Type	Package(s)
Hyprland + Wayland	hyprland-git
QT Wayland Support	qt5-wayland qt6-wayland
Widgets	eww-git
Wallpaper	swww
XDG Desktop Portal	xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland-git

yay -S hyprland-git qt5-wayland qt6-wayland eww-git swww xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland-git

Now execute Hyprland in tty with Hyprland, exit Hyprland by pressing Super + SHIFT + Q or open kitty with Super + Return

Packages

Type	Package(s)
Audio	pamixer pavucontrol pipewire-pulse
Browser	firefox
Authentication Agent	polkit-kde-agent
Launcher	wofi
File Manager	ffmpegthumbnailer file-roller gvfs thunar thunar-archive-plugin
Notifications	dunst
Misc	btop brightnessctl feh mpv newsboat nm-connection-editor noto-fonts-emoji tldr stow wl-clipboard unzip yt-dlp
Terminal Emulator	kitty exa zsh
Screenshotting	grim slurp
Screen Lock	swaylock-effects

If you are interested in alternatives for some of these programs, you can go to awesome-hyprland list.

yay -S exa feh ffmpegthumbnailer file-roller firefox gvfs kitty mpv newsboat nm-connection-editor noto-fonts-emoji pamixer pavucontrol pipewire-pulse polkit-kde-agent stow swaylock-effects thunar thunar-archive-plugin wlogout tldr unzip wl-clipboard wofi yt-dlp zsh 

Zsh shell with Zap

I like using zsh with zap because it's simple and fast to setup everything.

# set zsh as default shell
chsh -s $(which zsh)

# restart terminal then use 
zsh <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zap-zsh/zap/master/install.zsh)

Copying config with Stow

Stow is a nice way of creating symlinks (Symbolic Links) according to the tree of the target, so you can use stow to quickly copy any config.

# delete kitty and hypr autogenerated config
cd .config
rm -r hypr kitty

# make sure you are in home directory before cloning this repo
git clone https://github.com/gasech/hyprland-dots.git
cd hyprland-dots 

stow ags eww hypr kitty newsboat zsh

Downloading a Nerd Font

Nerd fonts allows you to have nice unicode icons and they look really nice, I usually cycle between some fonts so I don't get bored:

# keep in mind if you are going to change fonts, you need to alter the font name in ags and kitty.
# - ags style path: ~/.config/ags/style.css - line 3
# - kitty config path: ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf - line 31
yay -S ttf-roboto-mono-nerd ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd ttf-noto-nerd

GTK-XFCE Theme and Icons

You can use nwg-look and xfce4-settings to apply the theme and icons.

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/Fausto-Korpsvart/Tokyo-Night-GTK-Theme.git

# Installs theme
sudo cp -r Tokyo-Night-GTK-Theme/themes/Tokyonight-Dark-BL-LB /usr/share/themes/

# Installs icons
sudo cp -r Tokyo-Night-GTK-Theme/icons/Tokyonight-Dark /usr/share/icons/

# Deletes folder
rm -r Tokyo-Night-GTK-Theme/

Other dotfiles that inspired this rice

• juminai's hyprland dotfiles
• linkfrg's hyprland dotfiles