hyprwm/Hyprland

hyprwm/Hyprland has 40,374 GitHub stars and 2,169 forks. GitHot measured +60 stars in 24 hours. Last checked 2026-11-06 02:59 UTC. Last push 2026-10-31.

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Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

40,374 stars 2,169 forks +60 in 24h

What you can do

All of the eyecandy: gradient borders, many types of blur, animations, glow, shadows and much more
A lot of customization
100% independent, no wlroots, no libweston, no kwin, no mutter.
Custom bezier and spring curves for the best animations

Measured star growth

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README.md

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Hyprland is a 100% independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

It provides the latest Wayland features, is highly customizable, has all the eyecandy, the most powerful plugins, easy IPC, much more QoL stuff than other compositors and more...

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Features

All of the eyecandy: gradient borders, many types of blur, animations, glow, shadows and much more
A lot of customization
100% independent, no wlroots, no libweston, no kwin, no mutter.
Custom bezier and spring curves for the best animations
Powerful plugin support
Built-in plugin manager
Tearing support for better gaming performance
Easily expandable and readable codebase
Fast and active development
Not afraid to provide bleeding-edge features
Config reloaded instantly upon saving
Global keybinds passed to your apps of choice
Tiling/pseudotiling/floating/fullscreen windows
Special workspaces (scratchpads)
Window groups (tabbed mode)
Powerful window/monitor/layer rules
Socket-based IPC
Native IME and Input Panels Support
Fully dynamic workspaces
Extensive layout support
- Dwindle
- Scrolling
- Master
- Monocle
- Custom layout with Lua
- Custom layouts with plugins
Per Workspace Layouts
and much more...

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Preview B

Preview C

Special Thanks

wlroots - For powering Hyprland in the past

tinywl - For showing how 2 do stuff

Sway - For showing how 2 do stuff the overkill way

Vivarium - For showing how 2 do stuff the simple way

dwl - For showing how 2 do stuff the hacky way

Wayfire - For showing how 2 do some graphics stuff

hyprwm/Hyprland

What you can do

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README.md

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