Omarchy Hyprland

I can imagine it’s good ‘politicing’.

I want to install and set up Hyprland the way I would like it but it’s difficult because I don’t know everything needed and how to always do it. I get frustrated trying to do it so i usually just give up. Omarchy is setup to my liking but is overkill with some things plus I’d like to have it more endeavouroish! :rofl:

Well, Rick, in my opinion, the best/easiest way is to start with something you like and make it your own.
If I were going that route, I’d have started with ML4W instead of Omarchy, but that’s just me. I mean I’m really liking the Cachy configuration and finding the eyecandy better, but ML4W is solid. But it comes down to different strokes for different folks.
Omarchy is kinda MAC keybinds, which are not at all what I like/expect.

Yes i have tried it before. But I mean starting with endeavouros and no desktop and installing everything needed and setting it up from scratch to have the bar the way i want it, the backgrounds the right theming etc. I like Omarchy the way it works just not everything. This is how I would want it to work on EOS but just more the look and feel of endeavouros.

Edit: I think I’m going to try Archcraft Hyprland.

I think you should make it your project then…bring it to EndeavourOS :slight_smile: It’d be a learning process.

@ricklinux - in taking the plunge for Hyprland, I basically started with a No-Desktop EOS install, then installed a few Hyprland-specific packages (hyprland, hyprlauncher, hyprshutdown, and hyprshot). From there, you can copy the default Hyprland configs from /usr/share/hypr to ~/.config/hypr, then tweak away. Huprland’s Wiki is very comprehension - https://wiki.hypr.land. Once you get the syntax down from its Lua-based configs, it’s actually fairly straightforward to build your own rice.

On that note, using a prebuilt shell like Noctalia (not Quickshell-based anymore) or DankLinux (Quickshell-based) will make ricing a breeze, especially when it comes to theming your system along with your other apps. There are other hurdles, of course, if you’re not used to a tiling window manager, or how its workspaces are handled.

Ok, jumped over to Noctelia from ML4W . . . I like it a lot. Kind of weird path that got me here . . . saw a full walk through video of Omarchy, found my old thread comment about why is it a distro and not an install to finding this thread.

Had several hiccups on install but finally RTFM’d and figured out what I missed.

If installing no desktop though don’t you need to install wayland and stuff related to wayland and also sddm etc?

I use ly, but since Wayland is such a major dependency of so many Linux apps, it must have been installed either during the initial setup, or after I added some apps.

For example, my first (2) install commands after the EOS install are:

yay -S btrfsmaintenance firewall-{applet,config} gnome-disk-utility gparted ly pacseek polkit squashfs-tools squashfuse sshfs
sudo systemctl enable ly@tty2.service

Then:

yay -S archlinux-xdg-menu dolphin noctalia fuzzel hypr{land,launcher,shot} okular qt6ct-kde xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

So Wayland has to be added by this point.

Wayland isn’t a program, it’s a protocol. If you install a wayland compositor (Kwin,HyprLand), you can run it.
It doesn’t require all the 1001 pieces of kruft that X did. There really are reasons to have moved forward :wink: Note that you will need display elements like cursors and fonts,etc though…to display them :0

Okay but i have read is best to use uwsm as Hyprland works best on Wayland so with sddm. I just don’t know all the packages that are needed to make everything work. Hyprland, polkit and other stuff like Wayland sddm xdg-desktop-portal-gtk?

Normally i never have anything installed on eos other than what it comes with and then i put about 13 other apps which have nothing to do with it working.

Its a bit other way around.
You can run x app without any compositor or de, or even gpu.

I’m not a fan of SDDM or its derivitives, hence my switch to ly (which I use on about 30 difference systems, both Wayland and X11). I’ve also never used uwsm; it’s not required, my setup works flawlessly.

Here’s the main Hyprland Tutorial from the author. I mainly used the ArchWiki to get started with which programs to install first. Then it’s just a matter of taste, adding some KDE apps, sprinkling in some GTK apps as well.

X required a client, a server, and 5 bazillion support pieces for it’s life support.

Incidentally, my understanding of uwsm is kinda like a purity belt, it isolates stuff running under it in some fashion, like memory integrity or something. I have only vaguely read about it nearly a year ago. It is recommended but totally not required.

Follow the money. Incentives will out themselves over time.

Just saw this announcement from Omarchy:

Omarchy to sponsor Hyprland

This is fabulous news, great way to spend their newly acquired wealth.

Will be interesting to see where the rest goes, there must be a game plan cos no one donates that much without one

This is great. I like to see Hyprland advance further.

Indeed, and those are some big names, the story of how he got them involved could be quite interesting.

Now all we need to do is get some support over here for EndeavourOS as I’m looking to get some Hyprland! Not looking for Rice … just need a Hypr Endeavour. No bloat…just slick, simple, fast purple speed! With the same tiling setup. :wink: