Introduction

This is a readme(more of a diary) for the current hyprland setup for my personal computer, how it was made, and what I have learned

Base install

Use Archinstall, with default hyprland profile, it should come with qt5 and qt6, gtk3 and gtk4 is needed for a desktop environment, but not sure it is installed by default

kitty for the terminal emulator, ly for login manager(to avoid wallet problems later on, session manager is preffered to be installed here)

pipewire for audio server

For convenience, since I use Nvidia cards, the archinstall uses dkms drivers when using the proprietary settings, however the setup might be scuffed, so there is a need to check for the following post install

uvsm is currently scuffed in my current setup, so I do not know of a solution yet, but it is preinstalled with the Hyprland profile, just select the default hyprland session in ly instead of uvsm

Post Install

Nvidia

First thing to check after archinstall is if Hyprland can be started, if it does, then check the following for nvidia

-/etc/mkinitcpio.conf -MODULES=() containing: -nvidia -nvidia_modeset -nvidia_uvm -nvidia_drm -HOOKS=() removing: -kms -/home/user_name/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf -env = LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME,nvidia -env = __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME,nvidia

I would also uninstall the dkms driver and replace it with the normal nvidia driver, after that, install the following:

install nvidia-utils and egl-wayland install lib32-nvidia-utils if gaming, after allowing multilib repository

Package manager

install yay, because I use yay

multilib repository should be enabled during archinstall

add a pacman hook by creating a new file /etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook with the following code:

[Trigger]
Operation=Install
Operation=Upgrade
Operation=Remove
Type=Package
# You can remove package(s) that don't apply to your config, e.g. if you only use nvidia-open you can remove nvidia-lts as a Target
Target=nvidia
Target=nvidia-open
Target=nvidia-lts
# If running a different kernel, modify below to match
Target=linux

[Action]
Description=Updating NVIDIA module in initcpio
Depends=mkinitcpio
When=PostTransaction
NeedsTargets
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'while read -r trg; do case $trg in linux*) exit 0; esac; done; /usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P'

run full system update and restart pc while doing this

##Custom Hyprland Config Setup First create a config file in the desired directory, simply copy and paste from the default config file under .config/hypr/hyprland.conf

With ly, it is most likely that it is using a .desktop file to execute hyprland by default, so we go to /usr/share/wayland-sessions/hyprland.desktop and edit the Exec line as such:

Exec=Hyprland -c /yourcustomdirectory/hypr/hyprland.conf

Restart the PC and the new config file will be used

Hyprland Components

notification daemon = mako desktop portal = xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland xwayland screensharing compat = xwaylandvideobridge auth-agent = hyprpolkitagent qt-libraries = qt5-wayland, qt6-wayland gtk-libraries = gtk3, gtk4

status-bars = waybar, need to install otf-font-awesome as well for logos wallpaper daemon = swww wallpaper manager = waypaper app launcher = wofi clipboard manager = clipse network manager = nmtui file manager = dolphin text editor = nvim browser = chromium with vimium screenshot = hyprshot

need to add exec-once=waypaper --restore to allow for the wallpaper to exist after restart

fonts

after downloading otf-font-awesome you might see that your fonts are fucked,you can use this opportunity to download a new font and use it: yay -S ttf-fira-code yay -S fontconfig mkdir ~/.config/fontconfig touch fonts.conf with the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match>
    <edit name="pixelsize"><double>10</double></edit>
  </match>
	<alias>
		<family>monospace</family>
		<prefer><family>firacode</family></prefer>
	</alias>
</fontconfig>

Some apps need manual changes to adjust their fonts such as:

chromium/google-chrome
Dolphin

##Chinese-Japanese-Korean(cjk) fonts yay -S adobe-source-han-sans-otc-fonts

docker

yay -S docker sudo systemctl enable docker.server sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

git

just for automatic credential storing when not using ssh:

git config credential.helper store

git push

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