v0.19.1beta

Minor changes including bumping the wlroots ver, fixing a memory leak and some issues with
moving fullscreen windows.

New features:

• add failsafe for dwindle windows
• added nomaxsize rule
• nix: add cachix to nixos module

Fixes:

• fix lost windows clogging up memory
• fix up moving to special workspace
• minor fixes to special workspace behavior
• minor toplevel sharing fixups

Other:

• remove double semicolons
• unset fullscreen in onWindowRemoved

Special thanks

Special thanks as always to these chads for donating to keep the project going:

• Pebor
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Lipt0nas
• speedboat
• Karagra

Full Changelog: v0.19.0beta...v0.19.1beta

v0.19.0beta

Cool stuff.

Info for packagers:

the source- tarball has changed. Everything is now in a subdir called hyprland-source/

New features:

• Add nofullscreen to windowrules (#1107)
• Add option for retrieving first empty workspace (#1085)
• Added handling more special workspaces
• Added screen shaders
• Fix incorrect layout positions in mirror re-add
• Nix: add libdrm and wayland-protocols overlay
• add scroll_button libinput opt
• added blur_xray
• added border gradients
• added hyprctl switchxkblayout
• Implement window sharing with the hl toplevel export proto (#1179)

Fixes:

• Fix a compiler warning (#1124)
• Fix cmake error when using clang (#1009)
• Fix incorrect layout positions in mirror re-add
• Fix minor issues with mirrors
• Fix swiping on the first workspace going to the last (#1067)
• Fix wrong layout recalculate if statement (#1167)
• fix AA on borders
• fix border inner offset in shader
• fix crash in blurls remove
• fix crash in setActiveMonitor null
• fix crash with invalid frag dynamic shaders
• fix decorations missing after no_gaps_when_only toggle floating
• fix events in changeworkspace with bound ws-es
• fix fadeout with animated border
• fix group border oversaturation
• fix invisible windows on moving fullscreen out
• fix master resizes all
• fix minor issues with blur w/o new optim
• fix minor issues with blur_new_optimize
• fix shader destroy id unset
• fix transformed border thickness
• fix up the border shader
• fix warning
• minor fixes for mirrors & log more monitor events
• minor monitor code fixups
• monitor rule fixes
• use highp for pixcoord to fix nvidia border issues

Other:

• Render focused window at last (#1060)
• Reset callbacks on remap
• Setting wayland environment variables at startup (#1045)
• Unify rounding shaders
• Update wiki link in manpage (#1144)
• Use internal device naming for Hyprctl devices (#1174)
• nix: add cmake and wlroots to devshell (#1155)
• nix: add xdph to nixos module
• allow 360 degrees of freedom in gradients
• avoid duplicate device names
• avoid header clashes in make all
• avoid using wayland-0 as a socket name
• better capability handling
• block surface feedback on window sharing
• blur xray for layers (#1158)
• check for special workspace open in attemptDirectScanout
• convert bordercolors to GradientValueData correctly (#1122)
• damage monitor on group switch
• damage windows after switch
• default blur new optimizations to 1
• don't attempt rendering on begin failure
• don't change alpha on special anims
• don't focus back after dnd on follow mouse 1
• don't initial focus on LS keyboard grab
• don't send motion events to lock constraints
• don't set AS in onConnect
• find base surface if no subsurface found in ls
• find floating windows below closed one
• ignore alpha when sharing window
• improve constraint handling
• make focus/swap master layoutmsgs two-way
• minor changes to unsafe state handling
• more memory safety around onDisconnect
• nix: remove merged hwdata override
• nix: update nixpkgs (includes merged hwdata update)
• optimize border shader
• optimize data feeding to gradient renderer
• override force opaque rule on keybind
• recalculate layout only when needed on dynamic keywords
• reload shader on dynamic shader keyword
• remove global var
• remove idiotic guard in processMouseDownNormal
• remove redundant strval_empty checks
• remove resize transitions
• reset m_bEmptyFocusCursorSet on workspace switch
• respect no_gaps_when_only in fullscreen 1
• return full monitor box for fullscreen windows in idealBB
• schedule frames and reloads on session re-activate
• show groupings and swallowing in hyprctl (#1159)
• skip covered windows on fullscreen workspaces in getWindowInDirection
• unify setting of the active monitor
• use gradients in default configs

Special Thanks

Special thanks as usual to those alpha male gigachads for dropping me some euros:

• umop3plsdn
• Karagra
• Teddy-Kun
• Martin E
• Vibrose
• AmadeusWM
• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Leftas
• Pebor

New Contributors

• @julianschuler made their first contribution in #1060
• @Maks-s made their first contribution in #1009
• @CactiChameleon9 made their first contribution in #1067
• @hnboy made their first contribution in #1124
• @heymisphere made their first contribution in #1144
• @eriedaberrie made their first contribution in #1159

Full Changelog: v0.18.0beta...v0.19.0beta

v0.18.0beta

New features:

• Add an idleinhibit windowrule
• Add bordercolor windowrule (#992)
• Add focusmaster dispatcher (#942)
• Add keyboard led update after keys/mod update
• Added creating / destroying outputs on a multi-backend + headless backend
• Added decoration:shadow_scale
• Added direct scanout
• Added exec rules
• Added multiple master layoutmsgs
• Added resize transitions
• Added resizing individual master windows
• add more wlroots flags for faster compile
• add move cursor windowrule
• added monitor cycling
• added toggle for drm scanout flags
• added unset rules
• added workspace_swipe_forever

Fixes:

• Fix crashes with DS and mirrors
• Fix missing focusedmon event on focusmonitor dispatcher
• Fix resize transitions on multimon + transformed
• Minor fixes for virtual input devices
• Multiple animation optimization and xwayland wine fixes
• Nix HM: Fix invalid escapes
• fix extents in shadow deco
• fix fullscreen maximize size
• fix invalid master slave pos calc on y != 0
• fix issues with direct scanout's lack of surface frame feedback
• fix master window finding on closed
• fix missing stub for xwayland
• fix ordering in mouse connect
• fix passing input to constrained windows without relative
• fix raw exec in configmanager
• fix relative protocol paths
• fix safety over ls outputs
• fix shadow extent & offset calculations
• fix slide calcs for windows outside the viewport
• fix swipe on 2 detached workspaces
• fix the damageBox in damageMonitor
• fix trailing comma in hyprctl activewindow
• fix unregistering avars on sethidden
• minor fixes for follow_mouse 3
• minor loose focus fixes
• resize transition fixes + default transitions to false

Other:

• Allow arguments to hyprctl dispatch exec commands. (#990)
• Dispatcher to center floating window (#961)
• Nix HM: prevent race condition between dbus and systemd
• Revert "Set child stdout and stderr to /dev/null (#1000)"
• Set child stdout and stderr to /dev/null (#1000)
• apply some rules dynamically when state of window changes (#1020)
• automatically update dbus environment on start
• constraint focus simplifications
• deprecate general:damage_tracking
• don't update the env in session-less hl
• guard empty str in isNumber
• guard empty str in removeBeginEndSpacesTabs
• guard header windows in layout messages
• guard lastwindow in circlenext
• handle transforming displays in outputMgr
• helpers: implement getPPIDof on BSDs (#972)
• ignore constraints on exclusiveClient create
• include utility in defines
• meson: explicitly specify path for find(1) (#971)
• meson: use gl instead of GL
• move no_direct_scanout to misc
• notify idle on touch down
• possible crash when current workspace does not exist (#1023)
• prevent double-registering of avars
• remove ensureFDsValid, legacy
• remove old comments
• remove redundant check in CShader
• remove redundant includes
• remove spammy ime logs
• remove spammy logs for DS
• render the debug overlay only on visible monitors
• set cursor to hand1 when moving a window
• streamline hypctl output of windows (#983)
• update window values after map finish
• use goal values in changeWindowFloatingMode
• use lld instead of i in hyprctl getopt for accurate int reads

Special Thanks

As tradition, special thanks to those gigachads for donating in support of the project:

• re-ynd
• Pebor
• speedboat
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Karagra
• Lipt0nas

New Contributors

• @abbadanor made their first contribution in #942
• @jbeich made their first contribution in #972
• @philj56 made their first contribution in #990
• @sioodmy made their first contribution in #991
• @leftas made their first contribution in #997
• @ElJeffe made their first contribution in #983
• @Mango0x45 made their first contribution in #1000

Full Changelog: v0.17.0beta...v0.18.0beta

v0.17.0beta

New features:

• Add windowrules for noblur and noshadow (#884)
• Added hyprctl cursorpos
• add 10bit support to displays
• add disabling pointer devices
• added swipe create new
• allow glob wildcard in addreserved
• Allow 100%- for move rule
• allow # escaping in config

Fixes:

• Fix self-noding in changeWindowFloatingMode
• fix animate_manual_resizes with moves
• fix crash in event manager on hangup
• fix debug nest black screen
• fix default 0 in box passing test
• fix maximized windows not hiding tiled
• fix minor anim issue with swipe new
• fix minor focus oopsie
• fix refocus on last window
• fix silent + size windowrules
• fix swipe with fullscreen maximized
• minor fix for swipes from empty workspaces
• minor fix to silent ws rules
• minor fixes for xwayland refocus
• minor swipe on new fixes
• minor workspace rule parsing fixes

Other:

• CMakeLists.txt: use sh instead of bash
• Improve hyprctl
• No xwayland overhaul (#920)
• Rework candidate finding on close window
• Rework workspace rules
• T1C: window dance compat
• Transpose matrices on LEGACY_RENDERER
• allow cyclenext on null focus
• allow nofocus + workspace silent
• always report sizes after a window unmap
• avoid applying offset twice in onConnect
• avoid creating bound WS-es in moveWorkspaceToMonitor
• avoid layout changes when unnecessary in applyMonitorRule
• bump xdg ver to 5
• constrain mouse on focus change
• default focus_on_activate to false
• disable adaptive sync with no_vfr off
• don't set custom mode in change
• ensure VRR for current display only in onConnect
• handle activate requests
• ignore pointer constraints in touch
• lower IME errors to WARNs
• meson.build,CMakeLists.txt: use sh instead of bash
• meson.build: use sh instead of bash
• meson: Fallback to 'opengl' when 'GL' is not found.
• more safety around shutting down and mouse movements
• more safety for focus requests
• properly find the constraint window
• properly scan for subsurfaces in fullscreen input refocus
• remove redundant check
• render layer snapshot without blur
• respect nofocus in candidate searching
• respect wsbind in workspace silent rules
• revert output smart layout reporting
• set lastmonitor in onDisconnect
• unify LS unmap focus
• unrestrict hyprctl message size

Special Thanks

As usual, special thanks to those people for dropping some euros to me:

• JNC
• Zephan
• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Karagra

New Contributors

• @wael444 made their first contribution in #893
• @riley-martin made their first contribution in #912
• @rakino made their first contribution in #924

Full Changelog: v0.16.0beta...v0.17.0beta

v0.16.0beta

Thanks Brodie Robertson for the coverage!

New features:

• Add additionnal matrices and rename config var
• Add debug coredump instructions (#812)
• Add input:touchdevice:td_rotation config
• Add input:touchdevice:transform config
• Add support for rgba() and rgb() colors in the config
• a bit more default config nice addons
• add PKGBUILD to ignored files
• add loose focus behavior
• add maxsize window rule
• add touch binding to output
• added bringactivetotop dispatcher
• fix invalid json output by adding a missing comma

Fixes:

• Nix modules: fix environment variables
• fix crash in renderWorkspaceWithFullscreenWindow
• fix invalid json output by adding a missing comma
• fix windowsOut disabled with fadeOut enabled
• simplify shouldRenderWindow and fix one cond

Other:

• check for same workspace in workspace rule
• default & example config overhaul
• don't recalc offset on monitor reload offset auto
• ignore OR windows' size hints
• remove old log
• rename transform in DC to touch_transform
• rework focus system to be more safe and faster
• set XCURSOR_SIZE if not set in init
• set workspace name in previous
• unsetenv on no XWayland
• use size hints when available in xwayland default geom
• use static for transformation matrices

Special thanks

Special thanks to these massive epic alpha male gigachads for donating:

• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Karagra
• mdaydevelopment
• yavko
• Heisfer

New Contributors

• @KyleUltimate made their first contribution in #812
• @brodi1 made their first contribution in #844
• @histausse made their first contribution in #813
• @K1llf0rce made their first contribution in #857

Full Changelog: v0.15.3beta...v0.16.0beta

v0.15.3beta

Very small update to fix black screens on some hardware.

Other:

• Change matrixProjection function stop use matrixFlip180 everywhere.
• Let openGL transpose the matrixes for us.
• Replace $(nproc) with $(shell nproc).
• Simplify matrix calculations
• Update wlroots

Special thanks

Special thanks as usual to these chads for donating:

• Neutronic
• Karagra
• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot

Full Changelog: v0.15.2beta...v0.15.3beta

v0.15.2beta

Rather minor update, some bugfixes and minor features.

New features:

• Added clipping support, clip windows on slide anim
• add open/close layer events

Fixes:

• fix a VRAM leak in destroyMonitorResources
• Transform the box data send to texture shaders.

Other:

• Check earlier if pixman regions are empty.
• Check earlier if pixman_region is empty in some places.
• better subsurface handling on unmaps
• ensure texture safety in clearWithTex()
• inverse_transform the box in renderRectWithDamage.
• make swipe respect slidevert
• offset floating windows out of bounds on ws anims
• release all fbs in destroyMonitorResources
• swallow improvements

Special thanks

Special thanks as usual to these chads for donating:

• Neutronic
• Karagra
• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot

Full Changelog: v0.15.1beta...v0.15.2beta

v0.15.1beta

Critical update: 0.15.0beta has a defect due to an issue with wlroots making the GPU suffer a lot!

New features:

• Add accel profile and scroll method
• Add input:touchpad:scroll_factor
• Add switch device handling and binds
• add desc: to monitor rules
• add dpms per output
• add dpms status info in hyprctl
• add left_handed config for input
• add minsize rule
• added a noanim rule
• additional logic for identical pid swallowing

Fixes:

• Fix compiler warnig comparing signed and unsigned integers.
• Fix compiler warnings.
• Fix getDeviceInt string arg "input:left_handed"
• Merge branch 'fix_rounding_in_size_changing_windows' into rework_rounding_shader
• Merge branch 'main' into fix_rounding_in_size_changing_windows
• Merge branch 'make_TTY_unsigned' into fix_left_handed
• fix naming when workspace back and forth
• fix string corruption in hyprctl monitors -j
• fix tty switch freeze
• fix workspace previous with multi-mon ws moves
• fixes to window swallowing with same pid
• fixing your shit.
• revert wlroots ver to fix critical gpu issue

Other:

• Avoid 38 files to compile every time a shader is modified.
• Compare PLASTWINDOW & PWINDOWTOCHANGETO m_iMonitorID's instead of PWINDOWTOCHANGETO->m_iMonitorID & g_pCompositor->m_pLastMonitor->ID
• Cut the number of pixels that call length() in half.
• Don't pass bottomRight to textureShaders compute it within.
• Even less branching (taken more or less from the border shader).
• Make the rounding texture shaders smaller and more efficient.
• Merge branch 'main' into rework_rounding_shader
• Remove texcoord from QUADFRAGSRC.
• Remove unused ignoreCorners variable from texture shaders.
• Rework rounding shader
• Send absolute screen coordinates to texture shaders.
• focusedmon event check change
• ignore VT switches to current vt
• log GPU info for debugging
• map touch to the correct output
• monitor desc improvements
• more checks in pid gathering
• more monitor checks for shutdown:
• reset sigmask on fork
• return true on vt switch keysyms to avoid printing stuff
• texcoord is unused in the rounding part of the textureshaders.
• update wlroots dep
• use goalv in clientsRequest
• use vectorToWindowIdeal in mouse binds

Special thanks

Special thanks to these chads for donating:

• primalmotion - massively
• Karagra
• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Neutronic
• Vagahbond
• k1f0
• umop3plsdn

New Contributors

• @lylac-1 made their first contribution in #773

Full Changelog: v0.15.0beta...v0.15.1beta

v0.15.0beta

Enjoy your CPU usage when idle going down by as much as 95% in some cases and much more!

New features:

• Add "highest" mode to Monitor for autoconfiguration.
• Added window swallowing
• add case for empty strings in isNumber
• add fullscreen info to clients request
• add refreshrate or resolution preference
• added high to monitor resolution

Fixes:

• Fix #711
• It wasn't a problem with the bug i tried to fix.
• Merge branch 'main' into fix_bordersize_again
• Splash position fix
• fix Hz Log
• fix commas in free binds
• fix crash
• fix crash on dwindle splitratio alter on single group
• fix custom rules on null modelist
• fix ipc event missing on silent movetoworkspace
• fix oopsies in rule code
• fix silly mistakes
• minor OR XWayland fixes

Other:

• Change scaledBorderSize to int.
• Replace clamp with max if there is no upper bound.
• Scale border size in calculations of windows
• Scale border size in window size pos calculation
• Scale the border size, revert the window scaling according to border
• Scale the cairo matrix to fit the monitor dimensions.
• Shift splash up if monitor has wider ratio than bgTexture.
• Unify arg lists, allow for trailing spaces in args
• Use double literals, don't cast a integer literal to double.
• Use double literals, don't cast integer or float literals to double.
• allow for pure workspace names in dispatchers
• allow one less arg in bind
• anchor to proper quad in floating resize
• apply new node data to all group windows on close
• change Preferred mode to use highest refreshrate
• default pass_mouse_when_bound to 0
• disallow pinning fullscreen
• don't decorate on only no gaps
• don't recalc pseudo on fullscreen
• enter outputs for non-interactive ls-es too
• focusable checks in nextWindow calls
• guard event in maximize request
• guard kb settings in xkb translation state
• handle maximize toplevel request
• include shaders only in opengl.cpp
• optimize removing trailing spaces
• optimize vector config value setting
• overwrite wsbind rules on existing
• remove empty line
• remove more silly mistakes
• remove polling from socket2, fully event based
• remove redundant attrib setting
• rewrite isNumber
• scale border size in dwindle layout window sizes.
• send a focusedmon event on focus change mon
• support max in size rules
• support more wlr_cursor events
• update wlroots dep
• use goalv in movetoworkspace
• use the event data for determining maximize status in requests

Special Thanks

Special thanks as usual to these people for donating their hard-earned money to some kid on the internet (me) to keep this project alive!

• Neutronic
• Karagra
• Lipt0nas
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Wyfe

New Contributors

• @DashieTM made their first contribution in #706
• @Dickby made their first contribution in #715

Full Changelog: v0.14.0beta...v0.15.0beta

v0.14.0beta

Breaking changes

main_mod has been deprecated.

new syntax for mouse binds: (example)

bindm=SUPER,mouse:272,movewindow
bindm=SUPER,mouse:273,resizewindow

New features:

• Added monitor mirroring
• Nix modules: add recommendedEnvironment option
• add default speed to hyprctl devices mice
• added misc:disable_autoreload
• added window pinning
• added wsbind

Fixes:

• Various subsurface handling fixes
• fix LS fading out on ws change
• fix an unholy memory safety issue
• fix animation issues with workspace silent
• fix decos on pinned
• fix fadeout on unmap fullscreen
• fix focus follows mouse 0 event sending on wrong window
• fix groupbar being wonk on scaled
• fix groups with fullscreen
• fix hyprland freeze when undocking from docking station
• fix misc fullscreen issues
• fix mouse binds being stuck
• fix moving between fullscreen workspaces
• fix pinned fade on fs
• fix refocus on same workspace
• fix special fullscreen
• fix special workspace dispatcher logic
• fix wonky focus on movetoworkspace
• fix ws switching with LS opacity
• minor code styling fixes
• minor mouse bind handling fixes
• minor swipe fixes

Other

• accept any case in binds
• allow current in monitorfromstring
• better cycling in fullscreen with pinned
• better dwindle swapping with groups
• disable enabling groups on fullscreen windows
• disallow fullscreen pinned
• disallow move/resize dispatchers on fullscreen windows
• don't apply alpha to fadingOut on setWindowFullscreen
• don't iterate over subsurfaces in unmap
• export HYPRLAND_CMD for scripts
• fade control for fullscreen action on windows
• fullscreen animation en-nice-ment
• guard invalid FB allocs
• handle multi-ws swaps in layouts
• handle touch devices internally as objects
• hyprctl-nopoll
• introduce new mouse binds in default and example cfgs
• more forceRendering checks in shouldRenderWindow
• mouse binds overhaul
• only check for visible on xdg
• prevent assert killing Hyprland after reenabling monitor
• tick config after reload request
• verify visibility of new geom in floating creation

Special Thanks

Special thanks to these chads for donating:

• Neutronic
• Karagra
• HauntedCoffeePot
• Lipt0nas
• Goggi
• Fabian
• The_Branch_Manager

New Contributors

• @tomahk made their first contribution in #684

Full Changelog: v0.13.1beta...v0.14.0beta