[New hyprland version] v0.40.0

[flake-prow]

Happy Hyprland 0.40.0!

This is a massive update, with mostly changes under-the-hood, but also many QoL additions and fixes!

A lot of wlroots implementations have been rewritten to use Hyprland-made ones. More will come, but this release also serves as a real test to their stability.

Notes for packagers

• New dependencies: hyprwayland-scanner (build only), uuid

Breaking changes

• The hyprland logs, sockets, etc. have moved from /tmp/hypr to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr.

New features:

• alpha-modifier: add support for protocol
• config: Add More Monitor 'Auto' Positions. (#5670)
• config: add absolute monitor workspace selectors (#5848)
• config: added option to choose the default monitor for the cursor (#5847)
• core: add libinput backend support for headless session ([#5699](https…

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Would you like to know more?

Read the full article on the following website:

https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/releases/tag/v0.40.0

[piyoki]

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