hypr-dotfiles/README.md

Jeena's Hyprland setup

This git repo hosts all the dotfiles I need for my hyprland setup. You can use it to learn and to copy from it, but you probably don't want to just use it as it is because it's very opinionated and hard coded.

Introduction Video

Jeena's Hyprland Demo

Screenshots

Hyprlock lockscreen with custom font and showing keyboard layout

Empty hyprland screen

Firefox and Kitty side by side, no margin on the outside

If only one window is visible, border is removed

Tofi as app menu

nmtui to edit network and tofi to choose I/O audio devices

wlogout menu

Install

You need to clone this git repository to your computer, let's assume you do:

mkdir -p ~/Projects/
cd ~/Projects/
git clone https://git.jeena.net/jeena/hypr-dotfiles.git

The next step is to set up a hostname config where you can overwrite hyprland configs for a specific host:

cd ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/hypr/hosts/
touch $(hostname).conf
ln -s $(hostname).conf host.conf

Then you need to soft link the directories in this git repo to the ~/.config/ directory, make sure that those directories don't exist yet in your ~/.config, you will need to delete or move them before. In our example it would be:

cd ~/.config
ln -s ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/hypr hypr
ln -s ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/waybar waybar
ln -s ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/tofi tofi
ln -s ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/wlogout wlogout
ln -s ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/kitty kitty
ln -s ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/helix helix
ln -s ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/fcitx5 fcitx5

To enable the auto-mute/unmute timers (mutes at 21:00, unmutes at 07:00, only when idle-inhibit is active), link the systemd user units:

systemctl --user link ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/systemd/user/auto-mute.service
systemctl --user link ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/systemd/user/auto-mute.timer
systemctl --user link ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/systemd/user/auto-unmute.service
systemctl --user link ~/Projects/hypr-dotfiles/systemd/user/auto-unmute.timer
systemctl --user enable --now auto-mute.timer auto-unmute.timer

You also need to install all the dependencies:

• hyprland
• hypridle
• hyprlock
• wlogout
• tofi
• waybar
• swaybg
• nmtui
• kitty
• python3
• Curved Square font https://www.1001freefonts.com/curved-square.font
• FontAwesome
• ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd (required for waybar icons)
• xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
• xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
• uwsm (recommended; log in via the "Hyprland (uwsm-managed)" session so systemd starts the portals before the autostart apps — otherwise apps like waybar and chromium intermittently come up in light mode. Without uwsm the portal startup script falls back to launching the portals manually.)
• fcitx5
• fcitx5-hangul
• pipewire-alsa (whisrs captures audio via raw ALSA; without it the default PCM is the headset-jack mic, which is silent when nothing is plugged in)
• vulkan-intel and vulkan-icd-loader (iGPU decode; already standard on systems with Intel graphics set up for Vulkan)
• whisrs-git (AUR; voice dictation daemon, see below)

There are probably more, I will update the list next time I'm installing it on a new computer.

Voice dictation

The Copilot key (on newer laptops this replaced the right Ctrl key; it sends SUPER+SHIFT+F23) toggles voice dictation. Hold it to record and release to transcribe: one whisrs toggle fires on press, another on release. whisrs transcribes locally with a whisper.cpp model and types the text at the cursor in any window, including terminals running the dockerized agent harnesses. Text injection uses the Wayland virtual-keyboard protocol on Hyprland, with a uinput fallback that the package's udev rule grants access to.

The config lives in ~/.config/whisrs/config.toml (set [audio] device = "pipewire" so capture goes through PipeWire) and the model in ~/.local/share/whisrs/models/. The daemon runs as the systemd user service whisrs.service.

The stock AUR build decodes on the CPU with generic -march flags, which makes dictation take around five seconds. On this machine the package is rebuilt locally with -march=native plus the vulkan cargo feature so decoding runs on the Intel iGPU instead; that drops latency to roughly a second. After AUR updates, re-apply via ~/Projects/whisrs-local-build/build.sh.

License

All scripts here are under the GPL-v3 or a later version.