Easy Hyprland Install

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I don’t how many people have seen this, but I am very impressed with ML4W’s Hyprland setup.

I have set up Hyprland on my own in the past, but it was rudimentary at best. I didn’t stick with it. ML4W’s setup will have me using it regularly. The scripts and tools on this site really make Hyprland amazing.

If you are interested, there is a great YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/7xfepawIEz8?si=AE_xH8I2FXZ9_UrB

The Github site is here: https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/hyprland-starter

Sorry if this sounds like I am just hyping a site, but I am so impressed with the quality of the scripts and the work put in, I thought I would share it with the EOS family.

Have a great day!

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Thanks for sharing. This is really good work.

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Bookmarking this for the next time I decide to explore in tiling, thanks!

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ML4W is now in the AUR if you want to use them. He offers both git version and standard. With the git version you get testing updates, with the other one you get updated after testing is done through git.

yay -S ml4w-hyprland

or

yay -S ml4w-hyprland-git

after which ever one you choose just type

ml4w-hyprland-setup

follow the prompts and you are up and running. Remember as with anything Linux related YMMV.

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ML4W’s are nice … my second hyprland test was with this… buts its too bloated. To moch bloated stuff → it looks realy well and its preconfigured for almost daily usage … but no → little choice …

But good work → for testing and showing friends how Cool Linux can be :slight_smile: … for daily work no :slight_smile:

But dots that you grab with this testing , can be good start .

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is this not the second name for hyprland? i mean it is not to have a minimal setup it is a blaoting wm

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:+1:

But no people made it bloated … but its not the target it can be “light”

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basic setup has like litle over 700 packages … other stuff are bloated steam , electron apps …

With hyprland for most people is like … hey i can made this efect with 5 lines of code in config … but … everybody use that app with 40 dependecies and its more cool :slight_smile: … and then you have bloated hyprland that is not taken seriusly for daily usage :frowning: and thanks to that everytime you update you broke something because hyprland is in fast develop changing stuff on the fly :slight_smile: … simple way is better … before i have broken waybar after almost every update … now … ROCK solid stable :smiley: (no waybar)

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‘There is no accounting for thee taste.’
I put onto EnOS No desktop + ML4W starter + dotfiles
I’ve learnt how to create Appimage. Fixed in default.conf
bind = $mainMod CTRL, S, exec, ~/.config/ml4w/apps/ML4W_Settings_App-x86_64.AppImage
bind = $mainMod CTRL, L, exec, com.ml4w.welcome

Installed kde-desktop alongside for imaginary users who hate memorizing shortcuts.
I still play with ml4w.
As I imagine a beginner can cope with ml4w flavored hyprland or
she/he chooses plasma session with just crystal-dock.

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I think this is the reason I never went to Hyprland. Most of the builds look like a carnival :rofl:

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Or Xmas trees… :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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yes exactly :smiley: … but its is so “good” wm if you dont go mainstream :smiley:

but ML4 dot files are one of the best (mayby best) start for someone to look at hyprland.

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Definitely easy to install. Reverting back might not be as easy though. :laughing:

I gave this a try on my laptop. Installed perfectly fine, fast and easy. I didn’t like it so I reverted back. Afterwards I couldn’t log back into my Plasma session. The password was not accepted, though I knew with 100% certainty it was correct. Turned out the user shell was still set to hyprland. Found a command to revert back to bash and then everything worked normally again. Just a heads up to anyone trying this out.