Tools

These tools can enhance your workflow and help you make the most of your Hyprland experience! They have been tested and works well with HyDe too

Wallpaper

• Hyprpaper ![c++][cpp] (blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls)
• swww ![rust][rs] (Wallpaper daemon with live switching, awesome animations, and GIF support)
• mpvpaper ![c][c] (Wallpaper daemon that wraps MPV, useful for videos, and more advanced usage)
• swaybg ![c][c] (Very simple wallpaper daemon used by default on sway)
• waypaper ![python][py] (GUI wallpaper setter)
• waypaper engine ![typescript][ts] (GUI wallpaper setter with playlist capabilities)
• wpaperd ![rust][rs] (Minimal wallpaper daemon for Wayland)

Idle Daemons

• hypridle ![c++][cpp] (Hyprland’s idle daemon)
• swayidle ![c][c] (Idle daemon used by default in sway, also only one I could find for wlroots)

Lockers

• swaylock ![c][c] (Sway’s default locker, very configurable, and popular)
• swaylock-effects ![c][c] (Fork of swaylock, but with effects ^)
• waylock ![zig][z] (A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors)
• hyprlock ![c++][cpp] (Hyprland’s GPU-accelerated screen locking utility)
• syslock ![c++][cpp] (Simple screen locker for wayland written in gtkmm 4)

Clipboard Managers

• clipman ![go][go] (A simple clipboard manager for Wayland)
• cliphist ![go][go] (Wayland clipboard manager)

Raw Tools

• Grim ![c][c] (basic screenshot tool)
• grim-hyprland ![c][c] (drop-in replacement Grim fork with support for Hyprland’s window capture protocol)
• Wayshot ![rust][rs] (basic screenshot tool made for speed and in rust)
• slurp ![c][c] (basic area selection tool)
• Hyprpicker ![c++][cpp] (wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker that does not suck)
• Wayfreeze ![rust][rs] (Tool to freeze the screen of a Wayland compositor)

Recording

• wf-recorder ![c++][cpp] (Simple screenrecorder, like grim but records video)
• wl-screenrec ![rust][rs] (Simple and efficient screenrecorder for AMD and Intel GPUs)