hyprland-wiki/pages/Nix/Hyprland on Home Manager.md

For a list of available options, check the Home Manager options.

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• (Required) NixOS Module: enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly
• (Optional) Home-manager module: lets you declaratively configure Hyprland {{< /hint >}}

Installation

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Home Manager has options for Hyprland without needing to import the Flake module.

{
  wayland.windowManager.hyprland.enable = true;
}

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The following snippet of code tries to show how to bring the Hyprland flake from the flake input and import it into the module system. Feel free to make any adjustment for your setup.

Don't forget to replace user@hostname with your username and hostname!

# flake.nix

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

    home-manager = {
      url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

    hyprland.url = "github:hyprwm/Hyprland";
  };

  outputs = {nixpkgs, home-manager, hyprland, ...}: {
    homeConfigurations."user@hostname" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;

      modules = [
        hyprland.homeManagerModules.default
        {wayland.windowManager.hyprland.enable = true;}
        # ...
      ];
    };
  };
}

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The following snippet of code tries to show how to bring the Hyprland flake from the flake input and import it into the module system. Feel free to make any adjustment for your setup.

# home config

{pkgs, ...}: let
  flake-compat = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat/archive/master.tar.gz";

  hyprland = (import flake-compat {
    src = builtins.fetchTarball "https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/archive/master.tar.gz";
  }).defaultNix;
in {
  imports = [
    hyprland.homeManagerModules.default
  ];

  wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
    enable = true;

    extraConfig = ''
      bind = SUPER, Return, exec, kitty
      # ...
    '';
  };
}

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Usage

Once the module is enabled, you can use it to declaratively configure Hyprland. Here is an example config, made to work with either the upstream Home Manager module, or the Flake-based Home Manager module.

# home.nix
{config, pkgs, ...}: {
  # hyprland module from HM
  wayland.windowManager.hyprland.settings = {
    "$mod" = "SUPER";
    bind =
      [
        "$mod, F, exec, firefox"
        ", Print, exec, grimblast copy area"
      ]
      ++ (
        # workspaces
        # binds $mod + [shift +] {1..10} to [move to] workspace {1..10}
        builtins.concatLists (builtins.genList (
            x: let
              ws = let
                c = (x + 1) / 10;
              in
                builtins.toString (x + 1 - (c * 10));
            in [
              "$mod, ${ws}, workspace, ${toString (x + 1)}"
              "$mod SHIFT, ${ws}, movetoworkspace, ${toString (x + 1)}"
            ]
          )
          10)
      );
  };

  # hyprland module from the flake
  wayland.windowManager.hyprland.extraConfig = ''
    $mod = SUPER

    bind = $mod, F, exec, firefox
    bind = , Print, exec, grimblast copy area

    # workspaces
    # binds $mod + [shift +] {1..10} to [move to] workspace {1..10}
    ${builtins.concatStringsSep "\n" (builtins.genList (
        x: let
          ws = let
            c = (x + 1) / 10;
          in
            builtins.toString (x + 1 - (c * 10));
        in ''
          bind = $mod, ${ws}, workspace, ${toString (x + 1)}
          bind = $mod SHIFT, ${ws}, movetoworkspace, ${toString (x + 1)}
        ''
      )
      10)}

    # ...
  '';
}

Plugins

Hyprland plugins can be added through an option:

wayland.windowManager.hyprland.plugins = [
  inputs.hyprland-plugins.packages.${pkgs.system}.hyprbars
  "/absolute/path/to/plugin.so"
];

For examples on how to build hyprland plugins using nix see the official plugins.

Fixing problems with themes

If your themes for mouse cursor, icons or windows don't load correctly, try setting them with home.pointerCursor and gtk.theme, which enable a bunch of compatibility options that should make the themes load in all situations.

Example configuration:

  home-manager = {
    useGlobalPkgs = true;
    useUserPackages = true;
    users.username = {
      home = {
        stateVersion = "23.05";
        pointerCursor = {
          gtk.enable = true;
          # x11.enable = true;
          package = pkgs.bibata-cursors;
          name = "Bibata-Modern-Amber";
          size = 32;
        };
      };
      gtk = {
        enable = true;
        theme = {
          package = pkgs.flat-remix-gtk;
          name = "Flat-Remix-GTK-Grey-Darkest";
        };
        iconTheme = {
          package = pkgs.libsForQt5.breeze-icons;
          name = "breeze-dark";
        };
        font = {
          name = "Sans";
          size = 11;
        };
      };
    };
  };