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I've been on the fence since I've been trying Hyprland. What I want out of a window manager / DE is lots of window customization settings (borders, animations, etc.), & having configuration inside one file or one directory with hot-reloading (I'm switching from KDE since its config files all over the place). Hyprland is very popular among WM users with a large ecosystem, though I prefer stacking rather than tiling. I can make it work with some window rules, and shell scripts using hyprctl & jq.

I'm wondering how many little things I will need to fix / figure out. For instance, when I open the firefox bookmarks library with CTRL SHIFT O. When that window is open but not focused, and not on top, if I press CTRL SHIFT O again on a DE it comes back to the top, but not on Hyprland. I could probably find a fix for that?

I might be answering my own question but I really want to hear thoughts.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

If your looking to switch between things like stack/float/tile then I'd recommend sway or awesome, sway has the ability out of the box (iirc super+space) to toggle floating whereas in hypr you need to add or uncomment a line granted both are live update configs so you don't have to do the dwm rebuild type kerfuffle but still it's one more thing to get up and running where like I said sway has it natively and awesome has rules for auto-tiling. I've used all three pretty extensively and while I love hyprland for its animations I feel it's config needs a lot of tweaking, honestly so does sway and awesome but I still like them > hyprland.

this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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