Install HYPRLAND. Base installation on Arch Linux with Waybar, WOFI, Hyprpaper and KVM/QEMU support

[@mylinuxforwork]

If you like this video, please subscribe to my channel: 👉 www.youtube.com/@mylinuxforwork/?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the Arch Linux foundation video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6mpn3psaJuiaM0

[@davidjesusorozcogarcia9758]

You cannot imaging how useful and handy this videos it's for me. Thanks for sharing. I hope there is a second part where you go deeper on customizing more WOFI, widgets, and other tools like screenshot...

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you so much. I will definitely follow up with another video.

[@shant-o]

best Hyprland tutorial for absolute beginners, great job. Thinking about migrating to this, your videos are of much help.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your feedback.

[@galihpa]

This is a very well done tutorial for someone who hasn't tried hyprland and alacritty like me

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you.

[@oglothenerd]

Hello, fellow Linux KZbinr! Btw, making a NixOS video will make your channel absolutely blow up! I did one, and saw 300x my normal success!

[@mylinuxforwork]

Already planned 😏

[@oglothenerd]

@@mylinuxforwork Good!

[@oglothenerd]

@@mylinuxforwork I would put a disclaimer though: some apps may break due to NixOS not being Filesystem Hierarchy Standard compliant.

[@mylinuxforwork]

@@oglothenerd Thanks

[@aldyreal]

Thank you so much for this I was going to try hyprland in vm but confused why it didnt work. Turns out, your workaround is exactly what I need!

[@mylinuxforwork]

Great to read. Have fun with Hyprland.

[@molletzky3288]

The best channel when it comes to guided linux videos 👌

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you so much. 😊

[@arbuz_kawon]

Thanks so much man, I've been getting it wrong for the past eight hours, and your tutorial worked immediately

[@mylinuxforwork]

Great to hear.

[@AKMishra60]

Excellent... a easy tutorial to learn complicated, difficult Hyperland setup.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you.

[@redrush-hp9li]

Man ITS CALLED HYPRLAND

[@PlayerOfCeleste]

@@redrush-hp9liknew someone would say this lmfao

[@hanshofman]

Great video, can't now wait for the hypr version of your Qtile. Thank you.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks. Video is coming next week.

[@paultapping9510]

while I still think I'm happy on gnome, for now, you really made setting this up and editing the configs look very doable.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you. I like Gnome as well.

[@bartimois2584]

very concise tutorial, Thanks alot!

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your feedback.

[@clementlangolff]

This is the kind of video i've been waiting for ! Thanks a lot 👍 Does a gpu is required to have 3d acceleration on kvm ?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you. Please check if you see the related options in virt-manager. If yes it should work but depends on your host performance. Just give it a try.

[@SimilakChild]

hyprland was difficult! never knew about the keybindings until i watched this video. replaced dolphin with thunar to get rid of the KDE bloat, still in the works of getting a system tray up and running with waybar. oh and nwg-look is great for changing themes, cursors, icons, etc. fully supports wlroots.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your feedback. Will look into nwg-look as well.

[@m-electronics5977]

4:26 thank you very much for this. It is very difficult to find this things in the internet

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks 👍

[@m-electronics5977]

@@mylinuxforwork Strange: now I have two mouse cursors. Maybe the hardware blurry one and the normal from linux🤔

[@mylinuxforwork]

@@m-electronics5977 Hi. If you're on a VM than this is normal. Hyprland on VMs is for testing only.

[@m-electronics5977]

@@mylinuxforwork OK, but where this come from?

[@m-electronics5977]

@@mylinuxforwork But you didn't have it in your Video / VM

[@NOPerative]

Awesome stuff.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you.

[@VimPoR]

much needed...... thanks brother...

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your feedback. Have fun with it.

[@casualchou]

Whenever i boot archlinux. It shows tty instead of hyprland. How can i setup hyprland to start while booting?

[@mylinuxforwork]

You should use a display manager like sddm. You can install it with sudo pacman -S sddm and then start the service with sudo systemctl enable sddm.service

[@casualchou]

@@mylinuxforwork yeah. I later did some research and now I have implemented it. Thanks for reply 👍

[@donaldwilliams6821]

Thank you for this video. I was never able to get it working in a VM. Can you include your shell script with the environmental variables in the description? Also, can it be made to work with SDDM?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your feedback. Link is in the description now. gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/blob/main/hypr/starthypr.sh But also check the latest version of the hyprland.conf You see that the environment variables are now included on top. That means, the starthypr.sh isn’t needed anymore. Should work with SDDM as well.

[@0sakMosak]

der gute alte Stephan Raabe

[@mylinuxforwork]

👍

[@rafaelmkrtichyan]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAAAAAAAH

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your feedback.

[@jamesm2075]

I really like hyprland. I just wish window managers worked better with games in general.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your comment.

[@marpee6700]

I've been using arch with hyprland as my only OS for at least 6 months now and have had 0 issues gaming on it. As long as you have an amd gpu i don't see why you would run in to many issues

[@dajelinux]

I use nwg-panel and bemenu, but otherwise it's pretty much my rice 😁

[@mylinuxforwork]

That’s great.

[@siuyutpang2335]

I can't open alacritty or kitty terminal emulator in hyprland, I can't find any solution in the internet, I use arch on vmware and alread enable 3D Acceleration

[@mylinuxforwork]

Is your SUPER key working? The Windows key? Can you switch between workspaces with SUPER + 2 or +3 etc?

[@siuyutpang2335]

@@mylinuxforwork SUPER key working, everything seems working except kitty and alacritty like gpu acceleration terminal not working

[@casualchou]

Installing gtk-3 worked for me

[@casualchou]

Installing gtk-3 worked for me

[@jamesbychance]

​@mylinuxforwork@@casualchou I am having the same prob. SUPER key not working in Hyprland. Am also using VMware though.... I have tried installing the package gtk-3 and still nothing. ..

[@rediffusion7996]

What microphone you got mate?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Rode NT USB 👍

[@hudsonreyes3477]

7:49 cp don’t work what do?

[@habiboi_]

my understanding from what ive read is that alacritty doesn't use yaml config files anymore, so there wouldn't be an example file like that there I would search online for alacritty toml config file examples, or just create one

[@mylinuxforwork]

This is correct. This has changed over time.

[@artisticOverlap]

Well the video seems to be useful, but why did u placed hyprland in yay-bin folder?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. Please check also my Hyprland Starter gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/hyprland-starter and for example my EndeavourOS installation video how to use it.

[@hiru92]

I cannot use the OpenGL option, it give error, "EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED"

[@mylinuxforwork]

Can you check this article? bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=282803

[@HiImKyle]

I got it to launch once now I just get an error about "Could not connect to socket /run/seatd.sock: No such file or directory" and it aborts the launch

[@mylinuxforwork]

Seams to be a known issue. Please scroll down on this page and maybe the solution will help you as well: bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=289134

[@TheCodeCutie]

I want to use hyperland but i am still running a gtx 980. So my drivers are probably going to make it difficult if not impossible.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Yeah. Please check the Nvidia section on the Hyprland wiki. Maybe you will find there some tips.

[@linus7529]

The compiz cube of 2023.

[@mylinuxforwork]

👍

[@EliasRodriguez-cc3mp]

I think that the configuration of alacritty changed and now there's no .yml anymore.

[@mylinuxforwork]

That is absolutely correct. The video was made before the format change happened.

[@Eleumm]

@@mylinuxforworkwait then what is it now???

[@JhnBravo84]

Hi, How can I move focused windows by key binding? Thanks

[@mylinuxforwork]

With SUPER + arrow keys

[@gabbark]

I still don't understand why my vm is so laggy, it's running on kvm with gpu pass through. What am I doing wrong?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. That’s difficult to find out without seeing your installation. I will test Hyprland on an NVidia pass through setup later this year.

[@ltd5480]

I cannot "Open Terminal Here" in Dolphin with Alacritty

[@mylinuxforwork]

This must be added separately.

[@ltd5480]

@@mylinuxforwork How can I solve this sir?

[@darudesandwich]

i cant to get hyprpaper working no matter how i config it i was able to get waybar working though

[@mylinuxforwork]

You meed to start hyprpaper in the hyprland.conf with exec-once = hyprpaper

[@darudesandwich]

@@mylinuxforwork i tried both exec and exec-once and both didnt work i ended up just installing your hyprland config and im really happy with it

[@tohahossain388]

Great video

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks.

[@braexlo3425]

installed hyperland via archinstall (came to Arch a week ago) chose hyperland when installing. When I turn it on, the yellow inscription at the top of the screen does not disappear. HELP ME PLEASE !!!

[@mylinuxforwork]

You can remove it in .config/hypr/hyprland.conf There is a settings at the top of the file.

[@braexlo3425]

@@mylinuxforwork Uh, I'll try it, thanks

[@inchrys]

@@braexlo3425 lmao where did the enthusiasm go, went from PLEASEE I NEED IT to "uh sure i guess"

[@RusakGamenya]

I got this pacman' failed to install missing dependencies,when doing makepkg -si

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. Coud be that base-devel is not installed: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Foo_in_AUR_does_not_compile_when_I_run_makepkg.3B_what_should_I_do.3F

[@michaeloshoma2576]

Very cool bro...nice work keep it up.... But please. , between hyprland vs Qtile, which do you recommend to be use on my main machine?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Currently I would recommend Qtile for a main machine…. Today, for business related tasks. Based on the longer history between both systems. And not every application comes with wayland support today. But let’s see. Hyprland is definitely interesting and I will continue testing new updates. Next video is about my personal Qtile workflow. And you will see… it looks very similar to Hyprland. 😀

[@michaeloshoma2576]

​@@mylinuxforwork wow, thanks a lot, i really appreciate.....waiting for the qtile video

[@c0o0lin_firth]

So installing hyperland cannot happend only if im in minimalistic not desktop

[@mylinuxforwork]

Don’t understand your issue. Can you write in different words?

[@c0o0lin_firth]

@@mylinuxforwork if i want to install hyperland on arch , can i do it on a desktop environment or is it just for the minimalistic ,(i should freshly install arch and choose minimalistic instead of desktop )

[@mylinuxforwork]

@@c0o0lin_firth both is possible. If you want to have a traditional desktop as a backup just install it in parallel.

[@c0o0lin_firth]

@@mylinuxforwork like i can install hyprland and still have my files ? , bc all of them on unixporn and youtube are installing hyperland in the minimalistic arch

[@0____________0_____________0]

Hi it says whenever i try to use the cp to make the config file it cannot stat and theres no such file or directory

[@0____________0_____________0]

Whenever i go through the directory for /etc/xdg/waybar, i see the config file in waybar theres just config.jsonc and style.css

[@mylinuxforwork]

Both needs to be copied into .config/waybar. Maybe you want to try out github.com/mylinuxforwork/hyprland-starter

[@stefanmrvic4652]

Thanks for the tutorial! I'm wondering how can I add notifications on hyprland?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you. github.com/ErikReider/SwayNotificationCenter could work but I have not tested it.

[@stefanmrvic4652]

@@mylinuxforwork That actually works, thanks! Do you know if it's possible to make a bind that will make tiled window in front of the floated window? So basically bind that will put floated window behind the tiled window

[@mylinuxforwork]

@@stefanmrvic4652 the Hyprland window rules are extremely powerful. Have you checked the related wiki page? wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Window-Rules/

[@stefanmrvic4652]

I have checked it, but could not find it there

[@mylinuxforwork]

@@stefanmrvic4652 Then I would suggest to ask your question directly to the Hyprland community. They is a very active group on discord: wiki.hyprland.org

[@sushilmaharjan5439]

i tried to install hyprland with the xorg as your previous video and added hyprland and now when i tried to run it it is giving me error any help

[@mylinuxforwork]

What is it for an error?

[@nader_chalhoub]

U’re using xorg or wayland?

[@mylinuxforwork]

I'm using Wayland.

[@amdkits]

can i do this in terminal not in tty mode? i use plasma, my laptop cant support a vm so i have to install hyprland... it looks cool... i want to install hyprland in my kde + arch system... i am new to arch and have been on ubuntu previously so is there any way i dont have to go archinstall route and can have hyprland

[@mylinuxforwork]

Sure. Just follow the instructions and install it from a terminal.

[@VLADKO164]

can i install on 32bit asus laptop with intel atom? 2gb ram 2c4t

[@mylinuxforwork]

If the Arch Linux installation was successful then it could work. As aleays with Linux, you have to try it out.

[@gangov]

is it possible to use Arch with Hyprland from a Proxmox virtual machine? I guess I need something to connect to it from my macOSX, like VNC client 🤔

[@mylinuxforwork]

Saw a comment from a user with this setup and it seams to work. But never tried it by myself. But proxmox is one my list.

[@gangov]

thank you! @@mylinuxforwork

[@panos21sonic]

Im using virtualbox with an nvidia 1660 super. Im getting the error: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): wlr_backend_autocreate() failed! What can i do?

[@panos21sonic]

edit for self: WLR_RENDERER_ALLOW_SOFTWARE=1 Hyprland

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. Do you solve this issue with this command. If yes, into which file have you added it?

[@panos21sonic]

@@mylinuxforwork i followed your guide 1:1 up until after ./starthypr.sh, where i had to use WLR_RENDERER_ALLOW_SOFTWARE= 1 Hyprland instead of WLR_RENDERER_ALLOW_SOFTWARE= 1 on the ./starthypr.sh file. That fixed my issue, hyprland launched after that

[@averellberlin1880]

I am afraid I would have the same problem as with other tiling manager, Zoom share screen session showing a lot of black box because the windows do not render properly. But I want to try it. Would it be possible to have a script to run parallel KDE and hyprland and chose at start?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your comment. I‘m using Qtile with Xorg and Hyprland with wayland. You could do the same by running KDE with xorg and start it with startx and Hyprland with the Hyprland command. Or you could install a display manager.

[@averellberlin1880]

@@mylinuxforwork thanks a lot! I might try to have them both!

[@4Base]

hi i love your tutorial but when i add wlr into the waybar config instead of "sway" then nothing appears.. can u help? so i can see workspaces? maybe i have a error with fonts because i have installed a terminal font in arch? plz help

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you. There was a change in the waybar hyprland support. Please use hyprland/workspaces instead. I had the same effect on my configuration few weeks ago. github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Hyprland#workspaces Can you give me a feedback if it works? Then I will add a comment in the video description.

[@4Base]

ah ok thanks very much

[@JanB-z6e]

do u have a guid with nvidia installation for hyprland?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. I’m using an AMD card for Hyprland. For Nvidia please check chapter 5 here: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hyprland

[@TLOZ1986]

İ Love it ☝️

[@mylinuxforwork]

👍

[@뒈]

cp: invalid option -- "/", did i miss something?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Can you help me when you saw this in the video? It’s a while ago.

[@뒈]

@@mylinuxforwork oh im sorry, its in 16:09

[@alfredrodriguezgarcia2383]

config for multiple monitors? i have 1920 and 2560

[@mylinuxforwork]

Hi. Can you check out the following page wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Monitors/ I will create a video about multi monitor setup later this year.

[@McVerdict]

Hi does it auto detect nvidia and install drivers?

[@mylinuxforwork]

No. You have to install it separately. Please check wiki.hyprland.org/Nvidia/

[@ha17h3m9]

Just like you I am using Qemu. the screen inside the vm is flickering and unusable

[@mylinuxforwork]

Do you have enabled 3D acceleration correctly?

[@ha17h3m9]

@@mylinuxforwork yes, everything exactly like in your video, is the issue because I have only one gpu? I have cpu amd ryzen 5 3600 with gpu 1660 super

[@mylinuxforwork]

@@ha17h3m9 No. This should work. Is it flickering also on other desktop environment with enabled 3D acceleration?

[@ha17h3m9]

@@mylinuxforwork when I enable 3d acceleration, I cant even start the VM

[@ha17h3m9]

Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2024-05-13T15:45:33.663492Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: eglInitialize failed: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED 2024-05-13T15:45:33.663583Z qemu-system-x86_64: egl: render node init failed

[@dr.ivanabrajan8404]

How can a set up a VPN in Huprland ?

[@mylinuxforwork]

You can try wiki.archlinux.org/title/OpenVPN

[@suryaprakash_5]

How much ram it consumes..

[@mylinuxforwork]

Good question. Need to check.

[@samuelrau9618]

11:06 you misspelled with

[@mylinuxforwork]

👍

[@zeustiger2004]

🎉🎉🎉 i successful

[@mylinuxforwork]

Great.

[@psi4j]

You're running Hyprland on Arch for work? Lol

[@mylinuxforwork]

Currently I’m running Qtile for my daily work. Hyprland could come next. I really like it.

[@Powerincarnate.]

Thanks for the video, but I must ask. Why does so many Linux videos always, whether review of a distro or discussion of something like Hyprland, always show us how to install it. There are so many videos on how to install Hyprland, it becomes the same thing over again. Better for a noob like me, would be to show me what it is, what it actually does, how does it make my workflow better. How would it help me in my work environment; is it even compatible with software my work uses.. you know, actually getting stuff done, as oppose to...here is how to install it. Just my two cents.

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thank you so much for your valuable feedback. The Hyprland development is very dynamic at the moment. That's why I think publishing an installation video makes sense from time to time. But I agree. My focus is again more on sharing learnings and configuration ideas for Hyprland and Qtile + maybe more in the future.

[@Necessarius]

Ok.. You got me... It has a Waifu!

[@mylinuxforwork]

😀

[@good4455]

Why the fuck we need yay

[@mylinuxforwork]

Some packages are only available in the AUR. And yay makes it easy to install them. You can also install all packages with paru or directly from the repositories if you like.

[@installgentoo8561]

One of the dumbest logo design I've seen. It looks like a friggin noose.

[@mylinuxforwork]

😞

[@panos21sonic]

Tried installing on my actual machine, im getting: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb.render.utils.so.0: file too short Any tips?

[@mylinuxforwork]

Are you on Arch? If yes please make sure that all packages are updated. When does this message appears?

[@panos21sonic]

@@mylinuxforwork Yes, im on arch. This message appears when i run Hyprland. I have an nvidia gtx 1660super with nouveau drivers. I have tried updating libxcb both with pacman -S and -U, but -U doesnt work at all and -S says file is empty, not checked

[@fayking]

super + RETURN doesn't boot up alacritty, but super + M does exits Hyprland.. why's that?

[@fayking]

i've set the keybind to super + RETURN just like in the video

[@mylinuxforwork]

Great.

[@fayking]

@@mylinuxforwork ?..

[@damienbutt6320]

How did you get Alacritty to work? Did you have to configure something? I cannot get Alacritty to launch in Hyprland

[@mylinuxforwork]

I had never any problems to get Alacritty running. Not in Qtile or in Hyprland. Do you have a special GPU setup?

[@damienbutt6320]

@@mylinuxforwork No special GPU setup. Running in a VM like you but using VMware on a Mac. It's an existing Arch installation I've been using for ages with Gnome on Wayland. I tried Hyprland a while back but couldn't get it to start at all back then. I think at that point it wasn't supported in a VM? After seeing your video I thought I would give it another try with those two env variables set. Hyprland launches fine and looks brilliant. But I am struggling to launch various applications. My default terminal when I use Gnome is Alacritty and it work flawlessly there. I can launch Gnome Terminal and if I try to launch Alacritty from there it chucks out a bunch of errors relating to "wayland". I also can't launch Nautilus. Attempting to lauch VSCode crashes Hyprland completely and takes me back to GDM. Firefox launches but runs really slow and slows down Hyprland too, the mouse start lagging on and off.

[@damienbutt6320]

@@mylinuxforwork Great video though by the way. 😃

[@mylinuxforwork]

@@damienbutt6320 That’s really a special setup that I have never used so far. Difficult to help here. The reason could be already in MacOS or VMWare.

[@mylinuxforwork]

@@damienbutt6320 Thank you.

[@survivalviability4901]

What is super key M?

[@mylinuxforwork]

It is the WINDOWS key + m

[@survivalviability4901]

@@mylinuxforwork Ah- Thanks.