hy3

i3 / sway like layout for hyprland.

Features

• i3 like tiling
• Window splits
• Window movement
• Window resizing
• Selecting a group of windows at once (and related movement)
• Tabbed groups
• Some convenience dispatchers not found in i3 or sway

Stability

As of now hy3 is stable enough to use normally. If you encounter any crashes or bugs please report them in the issue tracker.

When reporting bugs, please include:

• Commit hash of the version you are running.
• Steps to reproduce (if you can figure them out)
• backtrace of the crash

If you don't know how to reproduce it or can't, or you can't take a backtrace please still report the issue.

Configuration

Set your general:layout to hy3 in hyprland.conf.

hy3 requires using a few custom dispatchers for normal operation. In your hyprland config replace the following dispatchers:

• movefocus -> hy3:movefocus
• movewindow -> hy3:movewindow

You can use hy3:makegroup to create a new split.

Dispatcher list

• hy3:makegroup, <h | v> - make a vertical or horizontal split
• hy3:movefocus, <l | u | d | r> - move the focus left, up, down, or right
• hy3:movewindow, <l | u | d | r> - move a window left, up, down, or right
• hy3:raisefocus - raise the active focus one level
• hy3:debugnodes - print the node tree into the hyprland log

Installing

Nix

Using the home-manager module

Assuming you use hyprland's home manager module, you can easily integrate hy3, as hy3 provides a home manager module that exposes the wayland.windowManager.hyprland.plugins.hy3.enable option.

# flake.nix

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

    home-manager = {
      url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

    hyprland.url = "github:hyprwm/Hyprland";

    hy3 = {
      url = "github:outfoxxed/hy3";
      inputs.hyprland.follows = "hyprland";
    };
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, hyprland, hy3, ... }: {
    homeConfigurations."user@hostname" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;

      modules = [
        hyprland.homeManagerModules.default
        hy3.homeManagerModules.default

        {
          wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
            enable = true;
            plugins.hy3.enable = true;
          };
        }
      ];
    };
  };
}

Manually (Nix)

hy3's binary is availible as ${hy3.packages.<system>.hy3}/lib/libhy3.so, so you can also directly use it in your hyprland config like so:

# ...
wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
  # ...
  extraConfig = ''
    exec-once = hyprctl plugin load ${hy3.packages.x86_64-linux.hy3}/lib/libhy3.so
  '';
};

Hyprload

Add an entry to your hyprload.toml like so:

plugins = [
  # ...
  "outfoxxed/hy3",
  # ...
]

Manual

Install hyprland, then run the following commands:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -B build
cmake --build build

The plugin will be located at build/libhy3.so, and you can load it normally (See the hyprland wiki for details.)