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)