Awesome Hyprland

Awesome list for Hyprland, that includes useful tools and libraries that either work or are designed for Hyprland!

Language Bindings

• Hyprland-rs (events, hyprctl, binds)
• Hyprland-py (events, hyprctl, binds)
• Hyprland_nim (events, hyprctl, binds)
• Shell Events (events)
• Hypr Events (events)
• Hyprland IPC Client (events, hyprctl)
• Hyprland_ipc (events, hyprctl)
• hyprpy (events)
• hyprland-go (events, hyprctl, binds)

Hyprlang configuration tools

• tree-sitter-hyprlang (tree-sitter grammar for Hyprland config files, made to be used with neovim)
• hyprls (A LSP server for Hyprland configuration files)
• Hyprparse (Hypr config file parser, with support for the web)

Plugins

• split-monitor-workspaces (A small Hyprland plugin to provide awesome-like workspace behavior)
• hyprgrass (Hyprland plugin for touch gestures)
• hyprNStack (Hyprland plugin for N-stack tiling layout)
• hyprRiver (River layouts for Hyprland)
• hyprfocus (Flashfocus-inspired plugin that adds flashing when changing focus, useful for borderless)
• hyprland-dwindle-autogroup (overrides grouping behavior on dwindle layout)
• hy3 (Adds i3-like manual tiling)
• hyprland-virtual-desktops (manages multiple screen's workspaces as if they were a single virtual desktop)
• Hypr-DarkWindow (Hyprland plugin that adds possibility to invert the color of specific windows)
• grab-workspace (plugin that moves a workspace to the current monitor and shows it)
• hycov (Hyprland plugin that displays all open clients in a grid view)
• hyprscroller (scrolling layout plugin similar to PaperWM or niri)
• hyprspace (Hyprland plugin that adds workspace overview similar to KDE Plasma and macOS)
• hyprland-easymotion (Plugin to enable 'easymotion' navigation. Inspired by Xmonad easymotion)
• hyprslidr (A Hyprland plugin for a sliding window layout. Inspired by PaperWM.)
• dynamic-cursors (a plugin to make your hyprland cursor more realistic, also adds shake to find.)
• hyprchroma (Adds transparent background support to applications that don't normally support it without decreasing opacity or affecting readability)

Official plugins

• border++ (Adds one or two additional borders to windows)
• hyprbars (Adds title bars to windows)
• hyprtrails (Adds trails behind windows)
• cs:go vulkan fix (Fixes custom resolutions on CS:GO with -vulkan)
• hyprwinwrap (Allows you to put any app as a wallpaper)
• hyprexpo (Adds an expo-like workspace overview)

IPC plugins

These technically aren't hyprland plugins, but extend hyprland functionality using only IPC

• pyprland
  • expose (brings every window to the focused workspace, then allows switching to its workspace)
  • layout_center (a layout maximizing one window at a time with a margin around it)
  • lost_windows (attempt to recover windows which are out of reach)
  • magnify (toggles the magnified state)
  • scratchpads (use your favorite applications as dropdowns)
  • system_notifier (adds custom desktop notifications)
  • shortcuts_menu (allows making menus with rofi, dmenu & similar apps)
  • fetch_client_menu select a window to be moved to your active workspace (using rofi, dmenu, etc...)
  • toggle_dpms (toggles the dpms on every monitor)
  • toggle_special (easier usage of special workspaces to "stash" windows)
  • wallpapers (random wallpapers from a list of folders)
  • Multi screen:
    • monitors (simple and flexible monitor placement)
    • shift_monitors (swaps monitors' workspaces)
    • workspaces_follow_focus (allows using any workspace on any monitor in a natural way)

Tools

Official tools

• hyprpaper (wallpaper daemon)
• hyprpicker (colorpicker)
• hyprlock (lock screen)
• hypridle (idle daemon)
• hyprcursor (Utility for creating cursors for hyprland)

Status Bar/Shell

• quickshell (Simple and flexbile QtQuick based desktop shell toolkit)
• ags (A customizable and extensible shell for Hyprland)
• fabric (Fabric is a python widgets framework for wayland and X11 using gtk)
• eww (Widget framework built on gtk, that can be used as a statusbar)
• sysshell (Generic shell for wayland)
• waybar (Like polybar, but for wlroots, very customizable)
• Hybrid (Featureful bar made for wlroots based compositors)
• hyprland-autoname-workspaces (Workspaces auto renamer, tested with waybar)
• ironbar (Very customizable bar with gui components)
• nwg-panel (GTK3-based panel with good support for Hyprland)
• nwg-dock-hyprland (GTK3-based dock for Hyprland)
• gBar (GTK3 based blazingly fast and efficient status bar)
• sysbar (Modular status bar for wayland)
• HyprPanel (A Bar/Panel for Hyprland with extensive customizability and context menus.)
• hyprpanel (An opinionated GTK4 panel/shell)
• ashell (A ready to go Wayland status bar for Hyprland)

Notifications

Notification Daemons

• mako (Very simple and configurable notification daemon)
• dunst (Very customizable notification daemon)
• SwayNotificationCenter (GNOME like notification daemon, with GUI and all)
• fnott (Featureful and configurable notification daemon)
• hyprnotify (Notification daemon with 'hyprctl notify' as backend)

OSD

• SwayOSD (GNOME like OSD written in gtk)
• Avizo (macOS like OSD written in gtk, also comes with nice scripts)
• Wob (dead simple OSD inspired by xob)
• syshud (Simple heads up display written in gtkmm 4)

Misc

• Ianny (Periodically informs user to take breaks by keeping track of usage patterns)
• syspower (Simple power menu/shutdown screen written in gtkmm 4)
• easyeffects (Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications)
• hyprgui (GUI for configuring Hyprland)

Runners, Menus, and Application Launchers

• rofi-wayland (Rofi fork with support for wlroots)
• tofi (very tiny rofi inspired menu)
• bemenu (looks like dmenu, but crossplatform)
• wofi (simple menu made in gtk)
• fuzzel (simple application launcher similar to rofi's drun mode)
• yofi (yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland)
• anyrun (A wayland native, highly customizable runner, similar to krunner)
• walker (A wayland native, highly customizable and extensible runner)
• hypr-empty (Open a runner on empty workspaces)
• nwg-drawer (Gnome-ish application drawer)
• sysmenu (Simple program launcher written in gtkmm 4)

Wallpaper

• Hyprpaper (blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls)
• swww (Wallpaper daemon with live switching, awesome animations, and GIF support)
• mpvpaper (Wallpaper daemon that wraps MPV, useful for videos, and more advanced usage)
• swaybg (Very simple wallpaper daemon used by default on sway)
• waypaper (GUI wallpaper setter)
• waypaper engine (GUI wallpaper setter with playlist capabilities)
• wpaperd (Minimal wallpaper daemon for Wayland)
• hyprwall (GUI for setting wallpapers with hyprpaper, swww, swaybg, wallutils, and feh)

Display

• iio-hyprland (Listen iio-sensor-proxy and auto change Hyprland output orientation)
• wlr-rander (An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors)
• kanshi (Dynamic display configuration)
• Wayout (For turning off display, useful for idle) (can be replicated using hyprctl)
• monitor-attached (Run the user's script when you connect or disconnect monitors)
• wl-mirror (A simple Wayland output mirror client)
• hyprshade (Frontend to Hyprland's screen shader feature)
• hyproled (A shader utility to prevent OLED burn in)
• wlsunset (Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland)
• Hyprlux (Automatically adjust gamma based on time of day and toggle vibrance when certain windows are in focus)
• wluma (Automatically adjust screen brightness based on the screen contents and amount of ambient light)

NOTICE: Wluma needs to be updated to support newer Hyprland versions, as it currently relies on the unstable DMA-buf protocol.

Workspace

• hyprdim (Automatically dim windows when switching between them)
• hyprnome (GNOME-like workspace switching in Hyprland)
• Hyprfreeze (Utility to suspend a game process and other programs)
• hyprkool (plugin that adds kde activities and grid layouts. also allows to switch workspaces when cursor touches edges)
• hyprswitch (A CLI/GUI that allows switching between windows in Hyprland)
• hypr-ws-switcher (A script to switch workspaces based on the active screen, like awesomewm)
• hypract (Adds KDE plasma like activities to Hyprland ) (Deprecated, use hyprkool instead)
• hyprnavi (Simple horizontal navigation feature for hyprland)

Screenshotting

All in one Tools

• Watershot (A simple wayland native screenshot tool)
• Grimblast (Port of grimshot, which is an abstraction over grim and slurp)
• Flameshot (All in one screenshotting tool with gui, annotation, + more) (To use make sure you have grim flag enabled)
• Hyprshot (Another grimshot-like tool to make things easier)
• satty (A screenshot annotation tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot)
• swappy (A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS)

Raw Tools

• Grim (basic screenshot tool)
• grim-hyprland (drop-in replacement Grim fork with support for Hyprland's window capture protocol)
• Wayshot (basic screenshot tool made for speed and in rust)
• slurp (basic area selection tool)
• Hyprpicker (wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker that does not suck)
• Wayfreeze (Tool to freeze the screen of a Wayland compositor)

Recording

• wf-recorder (Simple screenrecorder, like grim but records video)
• wl-screenrec (Simple and efficient screenrecorder for AMD and Intel GPUs)

Annotation

• swappy (Annotation gui made in gtk)

Zooming utilities

• woomer (Zooming utility for Wayland inspired by tsoding's boomer)

Input

• Hyprkeys (Utility for dealing with keybinds in Hyprland)
• hyprland-per-window-layout (Per window keyboard layout, zero-configuration, just works out of the box)
• hyprland-per-window-layout (Script to maintain per window keyboard layout) (language)

On-screen Keyboards

• sysboard (Simple virtual keyboard for wayland)
• wvkbd (On-screen keyboard for wlroots)

Locking, Idle, Clipboard and Login

Misc

• Wlogout (Logout menu)
• wayprompt (pinentry prompter)
• nwg-bar (GTK3-based logout bar)
• wleave (A Wayland-native logout script written in Gtk3)
• vigiland (A CLI tool to inhibit the idle behaviour of a Wayland compositor, e.g. prevent locking, screen turning off, etc.)

Idle Daemons

• hypridle (Hyprland's idle daemon)
• swayidle (Idle daemon used by default in sway, also only one I could find for wlroots)

Lockers

• swaylock (Sway's default locker, very configurable, and popular)
• swaylock-effects (Fork of swaylock, but with effects ^)
• waylock (A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors)
• hyprlock (Hyprland's GPU-accelerated screen locking utility)
• syslock (Simple screen locker for wayland written in gtkmm 4)

Clipboard Managers

• clipman (A simple clipboard manager for Wayland)
• cliphist (Wayland clipboard manager)

Display Managers

• GDM
• SDDM
• lightdm (Display manager with a bunch of greeters, more info on gh repo)
• Greetd (Login daemon with a couple greeters, bellow are some good ones)
  • gtkgreet (Very simple gtk greeter)
  • qtgreet (Configurable and overall more complicated greeter in QT)
  • wlgreet (Very basic greeter in raw wayland and SCTK)
  • tuigreet (Graphical console greeter for greetd)