Hyprland Welcome still expects hyprland.conf after the Lua config migration

[va101sa]

Hyprland Welcome still expects hyprland.conf after the Lua config migration

I noticed an issue on a fresh Arch Linux installation with Hyprland 0.55.

After installation, Hyprland creates and uses ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua as the default configuration. There is no hyprland.conf, which is expected with the new Lua-based configuration.

However, Hyprland Welcome still appears to expect hyprland.conf when changing settings through the graphical interface. For example, changing the default terminal is not possible because the application looks for a .conf configuration that does not exist.

Environment

• Distribution: Arch Linux
• Hyprland: 0.55
• Fresh installation
• Default configuration: ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Hyprland 0.55 on Arch Linux.
2. Boot into a fresh Hyprland session.
3. Open Hyprland Welcome.
4. Try to change the default terminal (or another configurable option).

Expected behavior
Hyprland Welcome should detect and work with the active hyprland.lua configuration, or at least gracefully handle the absence of hyprland.conf.

Actual behavior
The GUI expects hyprland.conf, so configuration changes cannot be applied on a default installation using the Lua configuration.

Is this a known issue, or is Lua configuration support in Hyprland Welcome still a work in progress?

[vaxerski]

it shouldnt with next release guiutils