r/hyprland

Orbit Wallpaper Engine v0.1.0 is here!

TL;DR: GLSL Shader Wallpapers for your desktop environment.

- Animated Intro and Exit commands
- GUI Settings Panel with control over animation speed and intro/exit curves
- Colour Remapping (with palette strength control)
- In app access to the repository of KDE Shader Wallpapers (https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper)

Hey all! A few days ago I posted my WIP rice in Hyprland using Noctalia and a custom GLSL shader wallpaper that I vibecoded. A lot of people asked for my dots, but more specifically people wanted the wallpaper and wanted to know how to achieve login and logout animations.

As a result things kinda ran away from me, I got really excited, and I basically scope creeped myself into a corner. I wasn't really prepared to share my dots at that point, and unfortunately I'm still not - but I've been building something a bit bigger than my initial plan just because I've been having so much fun.

So, whilst I'm still working on the more ambitious project, I got the shader wallpaper to a place where poeple can start to have some fun with it.

https://github.com/CleanShirtUK/orbit-wallpaper-engine

Note: this is eeeearly. I've run clean install tests on my machine but I don't have another machine available to test on. Proceed at your own risk!

Also... snuck in a little sneak peak of something else I've been working on as part of the bigger shell project at the end.

NOTE: Substantial AI usage made this happen. More details in the github.

Just a demo clip of where I’m at combining Mouseless (app) with wl-kbptr after 2 weeks. Since starting I’ve seen some good suggestions on more ergonomic keybinds such as moving as much as I can to homerow using keyd

Oh gosh I was confident I hit mute on the editor when exporting sorry about the asmr whispering 😂

it’s not great but I only realized today while scrolling through this subreddit that you can use other peoples dotfiles also the wallpaper is made by someone else with a green background but I did some computer magic to make the background blue bc I couldn’t see my terminal text

Tabularium
FEATURES
- C99
- 100% Statically linked (+musl)
- Software Rendered
- Grid/Free placement
- Wallpaper support
- Multi-monitor support
- Extremely customizable (~/.config/tabularium)
- - alignments and placements, sizing/positioning based on percentages of screen size
- - icon size, font size, font outline, icon spacing, margins, icon direction, monitor placement order, etc
- Image/Audio/Video thumbnails (~/.cache/tabularium)
- - C port of libjxl forked from j40
- - uses pixman, stb_image, libwebp, libavformat/libavcodec
- Follows freedesktop specifications for themes and directories
- No connection to network
TODO/BUGS
- Multi-monitor wallpaper finicky on cycling
- Grid isn't aligned properly
- Font shaping for low res is bad, fixing now (adding C port of harfbuzz)
- Cleanup source directory to place on github/gitlab
- GUI needs to start over, I have created vector image of what GUI should look like

This is no where near a finished application. I'd like some input and bug testers. It does kind of work as it is but I don't remember if this version can open .desktop applications but it is currently in the source. Primary goals are no dependencies or runtimes, maximum compatibility (haven't implemented mutter workaround yet), and maximum configurability (within reason).

DOWNLOAD
x86_64: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oilq7yvg0wxqze8ct8i6o/tabularium?rlkey=jx5rx4b4qbl6dti63ycjqio4n&st=k0kwko4j&dl=0
aarch64: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h639biqnxywjm84axib2m/tabularium_aarch64?rlkey=py5vh0mqjzuibmf3gk3ni47k9&st=1ony1ae1&dl=0

I just shifted to .lua from .conf today so while setting keybind, why is there 1-2 sec lag while opening firefox ?

When initially opening steam on a system sometimes the updater runs briefly; I was originally planning to just center it on monitor 1 workspace 1. Oddly this is the only window I've seen to not spawn a window class in hyprctl clients.

I was originally thinking that I could maybe set a default center rule for all windows which might cover it, then I could just override it on a per-application basis. I just think that solution is a pretty nuclear one, if it even works. If anyone has a suggestion please let me know.

So i riced my hyprland . Rn i am loving it , i made the quickshell bar similar to caelestia and and the tide-bar i installed using yay . ( so dont hate me for that)

Github Repo : https://github.com/MessiXgod/PrismDots

I am new to arch and hyprland. I need a bind that will resize a tiled window to a smaller float window say 1000:750 at the center of the screen and also clicked again will make the float window to tiled. Here a picture of rice btw...

Hey folks,

I've been building Glimpse, a desktop shell for Niri, and wanted to share it here.

Backstory: I was a KDE user since the 3.5 days and contributed a bit during the KDE 4 era. I left KDE because I stopped liking how it looked on my machines, spent about two years on GNOME, then went through Hyprland and landed on Niri. Niri's workflow finally felt right, but I still needed everything that normally surrounds a compositor: a panel, wallpaper, lock screen, idle handling, night light. I tried Ironbar first and liked the direction but couldn't get it themed the way I wanted, so I ended up building my own.

Glimpse is what came out of that. It's three separate pieces (glimpse-shell, glimpse-wallpaper, glimpse-lock) that share one config file, so you can run just the wallpaper daemon if that's all you want, or the whole thing together.

What's in it:

- GTK4 layer-shell panel with a bunch of built-in applets: audio, battery, bluetooth, brightness, clipboard, clock with calendar, keyboard layout, mpris, network, next-event, notifications, workspace pager, privacy indicators, printing, removable drives, session controls, tray, weather. Plus custom command/exec applets if you want to write your own.
- Wallpaper and blurred backdrop daemon
- Lock screen with PAM auth and its own theming
- Night light, automatic (location-based) or on a fixed schedule
- Idle policy: a three-step ladder (monitors off, then lock, then suspend) with separate AC/battery profiles
- Everything configured in one readable TOML file, with CSS theming layered on top of a base pack

I'm not a professional designer. The current look is intentionally GNOME-ish, since that's what I'm used to and it matches the rest of my GTK apps. It's not the end goal, just where I started.

Worth being upfront about: I own the architecture, the config surface, and every integration and direction decision, but a lot of the routine implementation and fixes were done with AI assistance under my review. Take that for what it's worth to you.

It's packaged for Arch on the AUR: `yay -S glimpse-desktop-bin`.

GitHub: https://github.com/alex-oleshkevich/glimpse

Screenshots and full docs are in the README. Happy to answer questions, and if anyone with real UI/UX chops wants to help push the visual design further, I'd love the help.

Wayscriber now shows an Input HUD, plus a big pile of 0.9.23/0.9.24 features and improvements.

Code is open source: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber

Wayscriber is live annotation/demo/presentation tool, my goal is for it to become the best and most complete live annotation and presentation tool.

It runs on Linux/Wayland: draw on your screen, drop notes, use any drawing tool you can think of, spotlight things, use zoom, and present without any browser extension or companion overlay app.
Has additional boards (default transparent, whiteboard, blackboard, etc) and multiple pages per board.

One of my goals is for it to have simple defaults (still polishing this one) but have tons of useful features, and fully customizable.

Btw, Wayscriber has a passthrough mode: draw around happily, then press F6 (or any key you like) and you get mouse and keyboard control back while the annotations stay on screen.
Then you can continue presenting, and when you want go back to annotating just press F6 again. This is super useful during demos or presentations.

It's also fully customizable: keybindings/shortcuts for everything, UI parts, and plenty of other things. You can decide what you want and how you want.

New: Input HUD
Turn it on and everyone can see the keys you press and the clicks you make, live. Place it wherever you like (top or bottom, left, center, or right), and it's built right into Wayscriber. Great for tutorials, screen recordings, and pair sessions where "wait, what did you just press?" is a constant.

Other highlights from 0.9.23
- Blur & spotlight tools: redact sensitive stuff or draw the eye to one spot.
- Real text editing: caret editing, selection, and copy/paste in notes.
- Wayland IME + key repeat: type properly in any language.
- Focus Mode: hide all the UI while you annotate, recover it when you need it.
- Tapered arrows: arrows look better now.
- Configurable status bar: show only what you care about.
- Color picker with eyedropper, RGBA + recents: pick any color from anywhere on the screen, and your recent colors are saved.
- Tons of perf improvements: snappier toolbar, clipboard, and capture, with fewer stalls.

Other highlights from 0.9.24
- Copy text from screen (OCR): drag over any region and grab the text to your clipboard.
- Native GTK4 / libadwaita configurator: the settings app now feels like a real GTK app.
- One unified top toolbar: the old side palette is gone; everything lives up top.
- More portable screen freeze: uses compositor-native capture with a portal fallback.
- Less Wayland flicker: overlay buffer handling fixed for smoother drawing.
- Better tablet sizing: pressure only changes Pen thickness; marker/step sizes stay put.
- Report a problem from About: copies diagnostics and opens the report form (nothing sent automatically).
- Onboarding tips that stay dismissed: say "Got it" once and they don't come back.

GitHub: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber

Stars help more people discover the project, so if you like it, I'd appreciate one. And if you know someone who presents, teaches, or records their screen, please spread the word. Thank you!

Full release notes:
- 0.9.23: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber/releases/tag/v0.9.23
- 0.9.24: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber/releases/tag/v0.9.24

coming soon.

Motivate me, so i can complete this as soon

👍