A straight to the point Arch Linux installation guide for beginners.
Hyprland Cheat Sheet
Setting up Hyprland is quite an involved process. This section is not a guide as it will only provide useful packages and basic configurations, it does not hold your hand in any way and will require you to do your own research.
If you run into issues, consult the Hyprland Wiki!
Hyprland Configuration Cheat Sheet
- This is my own personal Hyprland cheat sheet, it contains recommend programs and my own configurations. It's up to you to choose what you want.
======== PACKAGES ========
sddm
hyprland
hyprpaper - for wallpapers
hyprshot - for screenshots
hyprpicker - for color picking
hypridle - for idle sleeping
kitty - terminal
fish - shell
rofi
waybar
cliphist - for clipboard history
mako - desktop notification daemon
pavucontrol - gui for pulseaudio
mousepad - text editor
thunar - file browser
gvfs - file browser extension (removeable drives, trash, etc.)
tumbler - file browser extension (image thumbnails)
ffmpegthumbnailer - file browser extension (video thumbnails)
xarchiver - gui archiver
feh - image viewer
btop - task viewer
mpv - media player
f3d - 3d viewer
nwg-look - for GTK theming
kvantum - for QT theming
noto-fonts
noto-fonts-cjk - asian characters
noto-fonts-emoji
noto-fonts-extra
ttf-noto-nerd - nerd font, fixes some missing characters, such as for waybar
hyprpolkitagent - polkit authentication agent
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======== DOTFILES YOU PROBABLY WANT TO BACKUP (if you have them) ========
hypr
waybar
rofi
kitty
fish
oh-my-posh
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======== START THE FOLLOWING SERVICES ========
> fixes audio and screenshare issues
pipewire [user]
pipewire-pulse [user]
wireplumber [user]
xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland [user]
hyprpolkitagent [user]
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======== SETUP FISH SHELL ========
chsh -s /bin/fish
nano ~/.config/fish/config.fish
set fish_greeting
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======== OH MY POSH FISH ========
nano ~/.config/fish/config.fish
oh-my-posh init fish --config <THEME> | source
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======== CHANGE WALLPAPER ========
nano ~/.config/hypr/hyprpaper.conf
preload=/path/to/image.png
wallpaper=<MONITOR>,/path/to/image.png
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======== ENABLE MONITOR IDLE ========
nano ~/.config/hypr/hypridle.conf
listener {
timeout = 60
on-timeout = hyprctl dispatch dpms off
on-resume = hyprctl dispatch dpms on
}
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======== MONITOR CONFIG TEMPLATE ========
monitor=<MONITOR>,1920x1080@60,0x0,1 # (use "hyprctl monitors" to get IDs)
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======== KITTY STYLING ========
nano ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf
background_opacity 0.9
background #15191a
foreground #b8faff
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======== CLIPBOARD HISTORY ========
nano ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
exec-once = wl-paste --type text --watch cliphist store
exec-once = wl-paste --type image --watch cliphist store
bind = $mainMod, V, exec, cliphist list | rofi -dmenu -display-columns 2 | cliphist decode | wl-copy
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======== SCREENSHOTS ========
nano ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
bind = , PRINT, exec, hyprshot -m region --clipboard-only
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======== DISABLE MOUSE ACCELERATION ========
nano ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
accel_profile = flat
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======== HYPRPICKER ========
nano ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
bind = CTRL, PRINT, exec, hyprpicker -a
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======== DISABLE GRUB BOOT MENU ========
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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======== FIX TIME AUTO-SYNC ========
sudo timedatectl set-ntp true
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======== SDDM AUTOLOGIN ========
sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf
[Autologin]
User=jame
Session=hyprland.desktop
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======== FIX THUNAR TERMINAL OPEN ========
Edit Custom Actions: kitty -d %f
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======== FIX DIRECTORY OPEN ========
xdg-mime default thunar.desktop inode/directory
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======== WAYBAR PRESETS ========
https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Examples
> Put in ~/.config/waybar
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======== KVANTUM CONFIG ========
nano ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
# force Kvantum if you want consistent theming across apps
env = QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE,Kvantum
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======== GTK DARK THEME ========
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme "prefer-dark"
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