hycov

A Hyprland overview mode plugin, a new tiling WM workflow.

Note

Sorry guys, because I've been using my own Hyprland branch and the features have been sufficient for me. If hyprland comes up with features that surprise me, maybe I'll come back, but I don't have time to keep track of his every commit right now, so I decided to stop it temporarily.

What can it do?

• Hycov can tile all of your windows in a single workspace via grid layout.

• After quitting the overview mode, hycov can perfectly recover a window's previous state (fullscreen, floating, size, positon, etc.)

• Hycov supports a variety of trigger methods, such as touch pad gestures, hot corners, and keyboard shortcuts.

• Supports multiple monitors.

• You can change the way that Hycov focuses a window, whether directional or cyclical. (single-shortcut)

2023-10-30.16-58-51.mp4

Anyone is welcome to fork. If you end up improving the plugin, please let me know, and I'll be happy to use your fork.

Manual Installation

Note

1. After Hycov is installed, you will need to logout, then log back in. This may happen automatically, but do not worry. This behaviour is normal.
2. Only supports hyprland source code after 2023-10-22, because the plugin requires this commit in hyprland.
3. Each release of hycov corresponds to each release of hyprland. If you are using a release version of hyprland, but you are using the latest hycov-git, this may not be available. Therefore, hyprland-git is recommended to use hycov-git and hyprland-release is recommended to use the corresponding hycov-release.

Using meson and ninja:

git clone https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/hycov.git
cd hycov
sudo meson setup build --prefix=/usr
sudo ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install # `libhycov.so` path: /usr/lib/libhycov.so

Using CMake:

git clone https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/hycov.git
cd hycov
bash install.sh # `libhycov.so` path: /usr/lib/libhycov.so

Using hyprpm:

hyprpm update
hyprpm add https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/hycov
hyprpm enable hycov

Usage (hyprland.conf)

# When entering overview mode, you can use left-button to jump, right-button to kill or use keybind

#  If you are installing hycov with hyprpm, you should comment out this 
plugin = /usr/lib/libhycov.so

# If you are installing hycov by manually compile , you should comment out this 
exec-once = hyprpm reload

# bind key to toggle overview (normal)
bind = ALT,tab,hycov:toggleoverview

# bind key to toggle overview (force mode, not affected by `only_active_workspace` or `only_active_monitor`)
bind = ALT,grave,hycov:toggleoverview,forceall #grave key is the '~' key

# bind key to toggle overview (shows all windows in one monitor, not affected by `only_active_workspace` or `only_active_monitor`)
bind = ALT,g,hycov:toggleoverview,forceallinone 

# The key binding for directional switch mode.
# Calculate the window closest to the direction to switch focus.
# This keybind is applicable not only to the overview, but also to the general layout.
bind=ALT,left,hycov:movefocus,l
bind=ALT,right,hycov:movefocus,r
bind=ALT,up,hycov:movefocus,u
bind=ALT,down,hycov:movefocus,d

# if you want that focusmove can cross monitor, use this
bind=ALT,left,hycov:movefocus,leftcross
bind=ALT,right,hycov:movefocus,rightcross
bind=ALT,up,hycov:movefocus,upcross
bind=ALT,down,hycov:movefocus,downcross

plugin {
    hycov {
        overview_gappo = 60 # gaps width from screen edge
        overview_gappi = 24 # gaps width from clients
        enable_hotarea = 1 # enable mouse cursor hotarea, when cursor enter hotarea, it will toggle overview    
        hotarea_monitor = all # monitor name which hotarea is in, default is all
        hotarea_pos = 1 # position of hotarea (1: bottom left, 2: bottom right, 3: top left, 4: top right)
        hotarea_size = 10 # hotarea size, 10x10
        swipe_fingers = 4 # finger number of gesture,move any directory
        move_focus_distance = 100 # distance for movefocus,only can use 3 finger to move 
        enable_gesture = 0 # enable gesture
        auto_exit = 1 # enable auto exit when no client in overview
        auto_fullscreen = 0 # auto make active window maximize after exit overview
        only_active_workspace = 0 # only overview the active workspace
        only_active_monitor = 0 # only overview the active monitor
        enable_alt_release_exit = 0 # alt swith mode arg,see readme for detail
        alt_replace_key = Alt_L # alt swith mode arg,see readme for detail
        alt_toggle_auto_next = 0 # auto focus next window when toggle overview in alt swith mode
        click_in_cursor = 1 # when click to jump,the target windwo is find by cursor, not the current foucus window.
        hight_of_titlebar = 0 # height deviation of title bar height

    }
}

suggested additional configuration

• when auto_fullscreen=1 is set, you can also set the border color to mark the maximize state and bind key to control fullscreen maximize state.

windowrulev2 = bordercolor rgb(158833),fullscreen:1 # set bordercolor to green if window is fullscreen maximize
# toggle fullscreen maximize
bind = ALT,a,fullscreen,1

detail video

2023-12-04.06-14-37.mp4

• if you use the hyprland/workspaces module in waybar,you should change field {id} to {name}. It will let you know you are in overview mode.

"hyprland/workspaces": {
    "format": "{name}",
    "on-click":"activate",
},

detail picture

Alt switch mode

enable_alt_release_exit = 1
alt_toggle_auto_next = 0 # auto focus next window when enter overview in alt mode
# alt_replace_key = Alt_L # If your MainKey of toggleoverview is ALt, you can ignore it

operation

such as alt + tab:

• 1.alt + tab will enter overview when you not in overview(please hold alt,don't make it release)

• 2.alt + tab will switch window focus circularly when you in overview. (please hold alt,don't make it release)

• 3.when you release alt , it will auto exit overview.

If you don't want to use `alt` as MainKey in alt mode

such as use super to repalce alt

• 1.bind toggleoverview

bind = SUPER,tab,hycov:toggleoverview

• 2.use alt_replace_key to specify what is the detection key on release.

# use keyname
alt_replace_key = Super_L # Alt_L,Alt_R,Super_L,Super_R,Control_L,Control_R,Shift_L,Shift_R

# use keycode
alt_replace_key = code:133 # use `xev` command to get keycode

NixOS with home—manager

# 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";

    hycov={
      url = "github:DreamMaoMao/hycov";
      inputs.hyprland.follows = "hyprland";
    };
  };

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

        modules = [
          hyprland.homeManagerModules.default
          {
            wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
              enable = true;
              package = hyprland.packages."${pkgs.system}".hyprland;
              plugins = [
                hycov.packages.${pkgs.system}.hycov
              ];
              extraConfig = ''
                bind = ALT,tab,hycov:toggleoverview
                bind=ALT,left,hycov:movefocus,l
                bind=ALT,right,hycov:movefocus,r
                bind=ALT,up,hycov:movefocus,u
                bind=ALT,down,hycov:movefocus,d

                plugin {
                    hycov {
                      overview_gappo = 60 #gaps width from screen
                      overview_gappi = 24 #gaps width from clients
                	    hotarea_size = 10 #hotarea size in bottom left,10x10
                	    enable_hotarea = 1 # enable mouse cursor hotarea
                    }
                }
              '' + ''
                # your othor config
              '';
            };
          }
          # ...
        ];
      };
    };
}

Frequently Asked Questions

• some config not work, or the plugin not work.

if you use install hycov at first time,please try logout and relogin again.

• The numbers on the waybar are confused

1.Please pull the latest waybar source code compilation,
this issue has been fixed in the waybar project, fix date (2023-10-27)

2.Change the {id} field in hyprland/workspace field to {name}

• Compilation failure

Please pull the latest hyprland source code to compile and install.
The plugin relies on a hyprland pr,pr submission date (2023-10-21)

• Unable to load

Check whether hyprland has been updated,
and if so, please recompile hyprcov

• build fail with message No such file or directory #include <wlr/xxx>

#step1
yay -R hyprland-git wlroots-git

#step2
sudo rm -rf /usr/include/hyprland
sudo rm -rf /usr/include/wlr
sudo rm -rf/usr/local/include/hyprland
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/wlr

#step3
yay -S  wlroots-git hyprland-git