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Wayland

Login Manager
Fonts
Status Bar and Tray
Sway
- Wallpaper
Hyprland
Utilities
- Configuration
Troubleshooting
- Black screen with underscore

Install wayland: wayland, xorg-xwayland

Login Manager

The login manager is not managed by this configuration but mentioned here since it interacts with the desktop environment. For hyprland, sddm is recommended.

sddm: Enable sddm.service A note about themes: The themes must be placed in /usr/share/sddm/themes. Then in /etc/sddm.conf, enable the relevant theme. By default the breeze theme comes with plasma-workspace which is very bloated to install, so consider some of the alternative themes.

Fonts

otf-font-awesome: Needed for waybar to render icons
Noto Sans/Serif: System font

Status Bar and Tray

eww-wayland: Requires socat to listen for hyprland events.

Sway

This is one choice of a compositor.

swayfx: Window manager
python-i3ipc: Enables inactive window opacity scripts

Wallpaper

Use multibg-sway, which assigns a different wallpaper to each workspace and does not crash. The wallpapers directory ~/.config/sway/wallpapers needs to be setup in this way:

wallpapers
    ├─ eDP-1
    │    ├─ _default.jpg
    │    ├─ 1.jpg
    │    ├─ 2.png
    │    └─ browser.jpg
    └─ HDMI-A-1
         ├─ 1.jpg
         └─ 3.png

where the output information can be obtained from swaymsg -t get_outputs.

Supposedly does not work with hypr.

Hyprland

This is another choice of a compositor.

Note: Setup does not work with NVIDIA GPU without some tweaks.

hyprland: window manager
hyprpaper: Wallpaper engine The command to set a wallpaper: hyprctl hyprpaper wallpaper "$DISPLAY,$FILE"

The command for changing keyboard layouts is handled by fcitx5.

Utilities

swww: Alternate wallpaper engine

Note that ~/.config/hypr/wallpapers must have jpeg files {1..8}.jpg. A handy command can be used crop and resize images:
```
convert $IN \
-resize 3840x2160^ \
-gravity center \
-extent 3840x2160 \
$OUT
```
swaync: Notification server
wofi: finding programs, drop in replacement for rofi
dolphin: File explorer
swaylock-effects: A simple lockscreen
wl-clipboard: Provides copying
blueman: Bluetooth connector
grim: Screenshot engine
flameshot: Screenshot utility; On Arch Linux, install flameshot-git.

Configuration

lxappearance: Used to configure GTK3 themes
nwg-look: Configures cursor
wev: Wayland event interceptor useful for determining keybinds

Troubleshooting

Black screen with underscore

Symptom: The system shows a black screen with an underscore at the top left corner. Cannot access any TTY via C-S-F[1-9]. Logs look otherwise normal.

Solution:

Boot into live USB. Read `journalctl –since=today` to find out about erroring packages and reinstall them.
Enable wayland for sddm. This requires weston

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