Easy Hyprland Install

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I’m using for manager rivercarro.
For bar Waybar
Menu with Rofi also (rofi Bluthood, rofi powermenu , rofi screenshot)
Thunar , Foot , Fish , Xed , nwg-look for GTK config …

result here

EDIT: and regreet running on sway

Best start for instal is SWAY community edition because most of the packages there you will use anyway :slight_smile:

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Disable all decoration and animation features in the config, then you have a slick compositor which is lightweight, yet has more features than other compositors. My laptop has survived 3 updates w/o a major disruption. :wink:

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Yeh I know that in hyprland you can disable the eyecandy stuff… And reduce the power hungry of this WM. But even with enable it runs realy greate even on low HW.

But if there wasent any change in development in Las half of the year. (I dit not test it or runit for that period) The aprouch of the developers is very wrong… And they broke somenthing every release, because they change the syntax in config, how are handler stuff.

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Thank you @CyberDeath . I took your advice. I use a second waybar config for river.
The only strange thing the crash of firewalld but at the end runs. Tried version 2.0 but it cann’t be started according to the journal. The overall impression: sway and river are not over complicated.

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I’m quite interested in River now after learning about it from you.

I’ve read on their wiki that in Hyprpanel you disable blur and animations to conserve power, but I don’t know how many resources it uses I’m curious now how the following would compare on a low end machine from 5+ years ago -

  • a light distro like Antix which uses icewm
  • Arch/EOS with a plain wm like i3/awesome
  • RiverWM
  • Hyprland (with no blur/animation)
  • KDE Plasma
  • Mint Cinnamon
  • Gnome

I’ve listed these above in what I think is the right ascending order.

I’d never use those huge configs like ml4w, looked in their code and they install a ton of stuff. What I like about hyprland is it seems to have a ton of extensions/tools listed here - https://github.com/hyprland-community/awesome-hyprland

And its actively developed. The dev vaxry seems very talented, he basically reimplemented wlroots (there’s a whole saga behind it)

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Hi if you want modern desktop wayland is the way.
Low resources definitely antix and icewm. But it dosent look good.
Then x11 i3/awesome

And wayland final.
River
Hyprland around nwg stuff https://github.com/nwg-piotr
Plasma (it’s heavy on ram but very well optimized)
Hyprland full blown :slight_smile:
Cinamon
Gnome

I have been running hyprland with nwg stuff on Intel n5095 with 8/16gb ram and it was completly ok

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thanks. do you mean this project - https://nwg-piotr.github.io/nwg-shell/ ?
isn’t that still using hyprland so how is it lighter?

so far I’ve used KDE. I don’t like Gnome.

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Yeah its running on hyprland or sway. But its lighter over M4LW and other heavy configs.
It runs on GTK but its lighter ower plasma. And from my experience it has less breakage ower waybar whit stuff.

And its not only nwg-shell — there is lots of other staw nwg-piotr (nwg-piotr) / Repositories · GitHub you can build whole desktop with nwg+hyprland :slight_smile:

The picture on start of this topic from me is hyprland with nwg

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