hyprwm/Hyprland
Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 5 days ago, with 428 contributors on GitHub.
The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +554 stars on Nov 3, coincided with release v0.57.1.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with extensive customization and modern visual effects.
- Offers a fully independent compositor without relying on external libraries like wlroots, enabling unique features and fast development.
- Use for creating a visually appealing and highly customizable Linux desktop environment with advanced window management.
- Use for gaming setups requiring tearing support and smooth animations on Wayland.
- Use for developers wanting to extend compositor functionality via powerful plugins and easy IPC integration.
Should you depend on it?
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License
BSD 3-Clause
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Hyprland is a 100% independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
It provides the latest Wayland features, is highly customizable, has all the eyecandy, the most powerful plugins, easy IPC, much more QoL stuff than other compositors and more...
[ Install ]Install [ Quick Start ]Quick Start [ Configure ]Configure [ Contribute ]Contribute
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+2,326 stars over 73 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +554 on Nov 3.
Forks
2.2K+214
Open issues
196-3
Compared with peers in Developer Tools
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| DietrichGebert/ponytail | 188.4K | +4.4K | 75 | 12 days ago |
| affaan-m/ECC | 300.8K | +4.3K | 75 | 40 days ago |
| herdrdev/herdr | 50.0K | +2.1K | 75 | 27 days ago |
| max-sixty/worktrunk | 12.4K | +1.9K | 75 | 21 days ago |
| hyprwm/Hyprland | 40.6K | — | 60 | 5 days ago |
| Category median | 121.4K | +4.3K | 75 | — |
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