How to install Hyprland on Void Linux
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Today I walk through a complete install of Void linux with the Hyprland compositor. We will go from Iso to running instance of Void with Hyprland.
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Thanks Jake. By following along with your video and the official docs I was able to get up and running with my first Void install ever with my new favourite WM in one evening. I always thought it would be more complicated but you helped demystifiy a lot of things and made it fun. Really appreciate your video!
You're very welcome, I'm glad it was useful for you.
Jake, we know you have a busy life. I think you apologize too much for not posting at a certain time. I personally look forward to your videos, but whether you choose to make a video once a week, once a month, or whatever duration, that's up you. I look forward to watching your videos when they come out, but if it takes longer for you to do it, so be it.. you just need to do what suits you, the rest of us are just secondary aspects and along for the ride. You are the primary aspect of your life.. that's my perspective anyways, and although sometimes I do try to cater to wishes of others, the end goal is for me, those who don't like it can unsubscribe to my channel..I am not trying to please everyone.
Thank you I appreciate the kind words and the understanding. I try to walk the line between keeping my channel up to date and not burning myself out, but sometimes focus goes too far in one direction or the other and I have to make corrections. Thanks.for the understanding and support.
I agree, we all understand that life happens.
@@YoelaOlson thanks.
Oooh nice! I've been waiting for this. Looking forward for more void content.
one of the best linux helper channel thanks a lot for documention.
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it very much.
Man, another rabbit-hole ;-) Much appreciated Jake. Always wanted to get going with Void, have quite a lot of Hyprland experience, so this was great timing. Been spending some time in the Void handbook (very clear) and already had quite some fun. All installed, added and removed some applications: ready to delve deeper tomorrow. Thanks a lot!
You're very welcome, b
Void is a great distro and I just want it to get the love it deserves
What a beautiful Void system you have set up. I'm emotional 😢
Thank you, I love it, it feels nice to be back on void full time
Thank you so much sir, it was my first time trying void and it was succesfully! 😁
I would love to see a tutorial on how to create a custom Void Linux software repository.
I was trying to use plugins, but I have missing headers, someone had this issue, the installation that Jake shows here works just amazing, by the way
Gad it could help. Thanks for watching
Thank You Jake!
You're very welcome
I'm so glad I've run into your content however long ago!
I was wondering... (perhaps a video idea for sometime)
On Void, how would one go about kernel upgrades and maintenance? It appears straightforward in the documentation but seeing this all visually would be neat!
Grateful for you brother, have a great rest of your week 😎
Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoy the content.
Now that I am back on Void full time, I want to highlight Void and it's capabilities, so I will definitely add kernel maint and topics to my content list.
Awesome video! Void has been a great distro. I've tried Sway and it was very usable. My next ones are going to be Wayfire and Hyperland. I want Wayland compositor that I can use compositing effects.
Thanks dale, i'm going to give swayfx a look, I was never a big i3 fan but sway seems to be the standard for Wayland compositors.
for those struggling with getting kitty installed....try installing xorg-fonts, I think kitty issue in video is directly related to running in VM...
Hello! I just subscribed! I used to run Void when I got tired of Funtoo/Gentoo, and I liked it when I ran it, but I did something when upgrading pkgs etc that completely borked my install/filesystem, so I want back to Windows for a time, but now I'm on vanilla Arch Linux running none other than... Hyprland! I'm running Stephan Raabe/MyLinuxForWork's dot files, and I really like it. If he or someone in the community ever "ports" his install script for his dotfiles to Void I'll go back to Void in a heartbeat. It truely is a unique distro, and I kind of miss it. Arch is too common (and of course well supported), but running Void was fun. I have a spare mini PC here so I might install Void onto it to play with it not on my main system. Question though, can't you passthrough a GPU or part of a GPU into your Virt Manager/QEMU instance to allow for animations etc? Great video!
I like your videos. I use VirtualBox for a Fedora and KDE VM. Whenever I use a terminal (Konsole) I have to use the shift key along with super and whatever (x,c,etc.) because VB is weird with key combination assignments. May be the deal with your VM software, too.
Thanks for the tip.
If I remember correctly, I had same problem with terminals. I solved it by installing fonts or something like that.
That is exactly it, fonts were the issue.
Edit: xorg-fonts fixed it for me
`sudo xbps-install xorg-fonts`
Which fonts? @@JakeLinux running into the same issue running it on hardware, I even tried to force kitty to use wayland in my bashrc.
@@0xac829 any terminal font should do, or pick a font of your choice, install it, and set it in your kitty.conf.
Thank you so much bro @@0xac829
Why would you need to install both seatd and elogind ? Hyprland and its XDG portal use libseat, which if I understood it correctly, turns seatd into a complete elogind replacement.
Also more generally, why would you want elogind when you already took the leap of running a systemd-free system ?
Can you make a tutorial about writing Void package templates? I figured out how to make a Void software repository, but now I cannot figure out how to make package templates.
I will see what I can to, I have read up on it but never attempted so many make for a good learning experience.
@@JakeLinux From what I have seen, it is similar to a PKGBUILD.
Hi. I followed along on my void system with xfce, but im having issues when trying to run Hyprland. It says Unsupported maximum keycode 708, clipping.
And then crashes after that. What am i doing wrong?
Sorry things have been crazy busy lately, I have never seen that error, let me do a little research
@@JakeLinux no worries! Thank you so much for helping!!
If it helps, im running void on a surface laptop 2 with a patched kernel:)
Is it just my computer or audio is actually gltchy(around 6:15 time)??
There are a few audio issues, I attempted to fix but it obviously didn't work.
Hello sir I really liked your waybar so I copied it and applied it and it worked but the dark lines is kind of messed up could you help me I'm on artix Linux
What do you mean by messed up, can you describe what is going on.
Sorry I am not able to explain I am not good with English here is the image link
drive.google.com/file/d/11R1C5NtNntce442SyJNS77v_vekpX3Xd/view?usp=drive_link
Hello sir have you looked into sorry for annoying it's just that I really liked it and I want to use it
I apologize, I didn't get a notification that you had responded, I will check it over and let you know if I can see any issues.
Based on what I am seeing, there is an issue with the spacing, meaning there is too much space around some of the arrows in the file named config. If you adjust the quotes around the arrows that should solve the issue. I recommend start with the first arrow, adjust one of the quotes, save and reload waybar so the change takes effect and see if it fixed the issue, there may be more than 1, if it did, great, if not, put the space back how it was and move to the next quote. I can't put an arrow in the comments here.butnincan give an example, I will use < instead of an arrow.
Example: if line looks like this "< ", change it to look like this "
Hey Jake,
Great video. You look really tired. Please get enough rest. Nothing is worth destroying your health and ending up in a hospital. I know our society preaches go go go. Yet most people are stressed out all of the time. This is not healthy.
Trucking for 14 years locked me into that way of life more than I realized. I retired due to burnout in December of 2019. It has taken me 3 years, with lots of God’s help, to learn how to truly relax. I thought that I was taking sufficient breaks and time off in trucking. I was so very wrong. Beware, brother.
Thanks for the concern Donald, I appreciate it. I try to stay healthy, but sometimes life kicks your butt.
@@JakeLinux Understood. I would suggest that producing UA-cam videos does not take priority over getting adequate rest ESPECIALLY when life kicks you in the rear end.
I really like the bar you have setup with Hyprland, is it just a modified waybar or is it a different bar entirely?
Thanks, it is just waybar with a custom config. I believe my waybar git repo is up to date, I will have to check.
still not working despite "Look in the hyprland-void template/srcpkgs directory that you downloaded, they should be in there, then copy them from there into the void-packages/srcpkgs directory." Pls Help
Are you getting an error, fail to install, black screen at login? What is happening?
@@JakeLinux no logs in xfce but not on hyprland log in,hangs @log in screen
Which display manager are you using?
I see you have WGU student portal tabs, are you currently attending? I’m considering the software engineering degree. Mind if I ask what you’re majoring in and how you like it? Thanks in advance.
I am working on my bachelor's degree in software engineering, so far it is ok, you have to be dedicated and disciplined, the work at your own pace can be easy to let time.get away from you. The coursework is decent but they include a ton of extra resources. The price is better than liberty university, that is where I got my associates degree in information systems. There are pros and cons to it, just like anything else.
@@JakeLinux cool, that's pretty much what I'm expecting. I have a lot of IT experience and I'm in my 50's with a successful business that is pretty autonomous, so I can definitely devote the time to it. I've been working daily on my own learning to program already, so I think I'd be up for it. I also have a BA degree already, so the number of classes I'd have to take will be pretty minimal. Best of luck to you and thanks for the content you produce here.
For some reason I can install hyprland but not hyprland-protocols or xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland. It says package not found in repository pool. Do you know why?
Look in the hyprland-void template/srcpkgs directory that you downloaded, they should be in there, then copy them from there into the void-packages/srcpkgs directory.
This is weird, during the build of hyprland it keeps getting stuck for long periods of time at different stages, like installing host dependencies and target dependencies. I switch to another tty and according to top there isn't a whole lot going on with the cpu or memory.
Yeah, I'm not sure what is going on there, that is the reason I paused the recording so many times, sometimes it just sits and seems to be doing nothing but then after a few minutes continues on.
Could you share your VM script? Are you using Virt-viewer to view the VMs?
I am using virt-viewer. My script is in my git repos, there are actually 2 scripts I am going to combine into one. They are vmach.sh and addvm.sh
@@JakeLinux sure! Will try and get back!
You should've used something in exec_once because that way you'd know when Hyprland has finished loading..
What are you using to... display stem info when you open the terminal (I'm smart just... tired lol). Is it Neofetch? It looks quite nice and clean.
Thanks, it is neofetch with a custom config, I have a custom script I usually run and display, I just have not set it up again yet. I prefer to create rather than use premade programs as much as I possibly can. Nothing against using premade programs, just prefer to try to do things myself.
@@JakeLinux neofetch can take a few seconds to output stuff, so I don't use it. But yours looks good, so maybe I'll take another look at building it.
@@JakeLinuxdid you make the ascii art yourself, and would you mind sharing it?
Hi Jake, have you tried to install Wayland to run Hyprland on it (instead of on Xorg)?
No I have not tried that yet, maybe if I ever settle down on a single WM and it is hyprland or sway, but I don't know when or if I will ever be able to do that.
Hello jake there's a project called swayfx it's based on sway and adds various eye candy features like rounded corners and blur. I would like to hear your opinions about it.
I have heard of swayfx, I am planning on checking it out in the near future.
Hey Mr. Jake I am severely confused as to how to use dot-files. Do you mind explaining how to use them? Specifically your dot-files for HLWM for Void...
Are you curious about my specific current HLWM setup or just how to set it up in general. I am going to do a refresh on setting up HLWM in the near future and completely redo my.configuration.
@@JakeLinux Sorry for the late reply I'm just curious about your current setup...it isn't the same one on github/gitlab...
Hey Jake, I'm running into a problem when running void-installer in a qemu virtual machine. I followed the exact same steps in the installer as yours and partitioned it the same exact way but at the very end of the installation I received an error stating that I failed to install grub on /dev/vda. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
After re-doing it for a 3rd time I found the issue. It seems QEMU automatically chooses the BIOS Firmware if you didn't explicitly select the UEFI one in the gui.
Nice, glad you got it figured out.
What gpu are you using? I'm tempted to try both Void and Hyprland for the first time. But hyprland wayland support seems like it might be sketchier on nVidia.
I'm on a laptop with integrated Intel graphics. Look at Wayland in the void handbook it talks about Nvidia
@@JakeLinux Thanks, I'll give it a look!
i left void because i could not get the audio to work but besides the audio everything works fine
That seems to be peoples biggest issue, not trying to sound condescending but I have never had audio issues on void! Are you trying pipewire or pulse?
Hey, I've almost finished setting up my hyprland + void linux setup but I've been having a persistent issue with my display manager (SDDM). It works fine on boot and initial login, but when I log out of Hyprland (be it through wlogout, the hyprland bind, or killing the service) I get put on an infinite black screen.
I've tested this with lightDM as well, with the same issue.
I can get out of it by opening up a virtual terminal, but I'd rather fix the issue. Did you run into anything similar? Or any ideas to fix it? Thank you!
Weird, I used to get that on login every time, even at initial login. if i used a display manager, I would get a black screen and nothing else but from a terminal I could launch Hyprland just fine.
What does your hyprland.desktop look like?
@@JakeLinux It's nothing special:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Hyprland
Comment=An intelligent dynamic tiling Wayland Compositor
Exec=Hyprland
Type=Application
Also, thank you for the quick response!
@@Hennns try changing the Exec line in your .desktop file to the following, this is what solved it for me:
Exec=dbus-launch Hyprland
@@JakeLinux It didnt work, unfortunately :( should I set sddm to open an x11 session instead of a wayland one?
Why do you need elogind if you are using seatd? You didn’t symlink elogind either way.
I had issues multiple times with sddm for some reason unless elogind was installed. I did not use sddm in the video but it is just habit to install it now.
Won't they interfere? @@JakeLinux
@@jyothishkumar3098 not if elogind is not symlinked, again it was just force of habit and the fact that I was half asleep when making this video.
Hi, have you tried using river on voidlinux?
whats the theme you have on the top bar?
It is my personal config, it is available in my git repos
If only Autodesk Maya and daVinci Resolve works on Void :(, I can use Distrobox, but I'm rather using native package manager.
Is there a deb package of them,.or are they available in the nix package manager?
@@JakeLinux DaVinci is a normal .run package, Maya is "only" compatible with Fedora and Red Hat but is not true because I'm using it with Arch Linux.
@@JakeLinux I'm sorry if I bother you, but gvfs and udiskie doesn't work properly on my Void + Hyprland Setup, I still don't know why, because I'm using the same script on My Gentoo + Runit and it works just fine, my same config files works on almost every distro I tried
@@MeraMadness no bother at all, let me look into it when I get a minute and I will get back to you.
@@JakeLinux for some reason the Dbus service doesn't work properly, it starts without any problem because Hyprland works, but for some apps it doesn't, I fix it by changing some executable line and now is working fine, I still need to fix the Sys tray problem
How to install plugins?
Maybe I missed it but what is your host OS?
Void Linux
You are correct sir.
What @10leej said
How to connect wifi to install voidlinux
Wpa_supplicant I believe is what is on the iso. I think I have always used my phone as a tether and Installed network manager right off the bat.
Great job Man ! I love you
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Super+Q wont work unless you passthrough your super key to the virtual machine. You can add the following lines to your hyprland.conf
# Passthrough SUPER KEY to Virtual Machine
bind = $mainMod, P, submap, passthru
submap = passthru
bind = SUPER, Escape, submap, reset
submap = reset
With this, you passthrough your super key by SUPER+P. After that, all of your key bindings will only work on virtual until you reset your submap with SUPER+ESC
Thanks for the tip but passthrough isn't needed, my original test run had no issues because I installed xorg. if xorg is installed kitty launches perfectly fine.
@JakeLinux, I encountered a similar problem with Alacritty and Dmenu on Debian. Installing Xwayland resolved the issue for me.
I think the terminal doesn't launch because a font isn't installed for it to use, and since Xorg comes with fonts, this rectifies the issue. It's not an input capture problem because Super+M still works for exiting Hyprland. I installed the Liberation fonts and it worked without xorg.
Bru unable to install xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, Any way to fix😢😢😢😢pls
What error are you getting when trying to install?