Hyprland
Compositing window manager
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Hyprland is a dynamic tiling window manager and compositing manager for Wayland written in C++. Hyprland officially supports Arch Linux and NixOS, with unofficial support for other Linux distributions like Fedora and Gentoo.[4][5]
| Hyprland | |
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| Original author | Vaxry[1] |
| Stable release | 0.55
/ May 9, 2026[2] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | |
| License | BSD 3-Clause[3] |
| Website | hypr |
| Repository | |
Features
Hyprland includes support for dynamic tiling[6][7], tabbed windows and a custom renderer providing window animations, support for rounded corners, uses the Dual-Kawase blur technique when rendering transparent windows, among other rendering capabilities. It additionally features extensive configurability and extensibility through a Lua-based configuration system that was added in the 0.55 release.[8] Before 0.55, Hyprland used a configuration language called hyprlang with the primary configuration being stored in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf.[7][9]
Hyprland is keyboard centric, making heavy use of keyboard shortcuts to perform actions.[10] The default installation of Hyprland comes with no panels or docks and consists primarily of a black screen with a prompt to a few shortcuts to get a user started.[5] The user can then modify the existing auto-generated config to customize the window manager to their workflow.[5][9] Roine Bertelson from MakeUseOf noted that Hyprland was not for everyone especially if they wanted everything configured out of the box, but rather the customizability allowed for each user to define their own settings and shortcuts allowing users to configure their desktops to suit their workflows.[5]
Reception
Hyprland has been praised for its customizability.[11][5] In 2025, Framework Computer sponsored the Hyprland and Omarchy project, although it received criticism due to claims that the Omarchy community may be toxic.[12]
Hyprland is the default window manager of Omarchy, a Linux distribution built on top of Arch Linux.[10]
