Make Hyprland more similar to i3/sway

[bastnic]

Context : I'm a long time of i3, first via https://regolith-desktop.com/ (a mix of omakub/omarchy: ubuntu with the tiling manager i3) then directly with a bare sway (i3 on wayland) on arch.

I'm very much interested by Omarchy and the emulation around it but I can't resolve myself to lose some of the feature that are so nice to use. I search a little and found a great config that I want to share.

screenrecording-2025-07-24_22-30-16.mp4

The differences:

• hyprland by default split screen in 2 equal panes, and then split the second one in 2, like a tree / fractal. It's called "Dwindle layout". There is another mode "master mode", but it's not what I need. Sway/i3 by default split in 2 and give 50/50, but then when adding the third, the whole screen is divised in 3, then in 4. it's perfect to have 3 equals (like slack, signal, whatsapp) in a single workspace
• then, I'm on the go and I'm not anymore on a 27" screen but on the 13" (framework btw) and the 3 apps are too small, I just press SUPER+t and the 3 apps are now in tabs and only one take the full screen, I can move between them like we do all the time

All is possible thanks to https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3.

To install:

yay -S cmake meson cpio pkg-config git gcc
hyprpm update
hyprpm add https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3
hyprpm enable hy3

and then in .config/hypr/hyprland.conf

# Make sure hyprpm is activated
exec-once = hyprpm reload -n

general {
    layout = hy3
}

bind = SUPER, t, hy3:changegroup, toggletab

bind = SUPER, left, hy3:movefocus, l
bind = SUPER, right, hy3:movefocus, r
bind = SUPER, down, hy3:movefocus, d
bind = SUPER, up, hy3:movefocus, u

bind = SUPER+SHIFT, left, hy3:movewindow, l, once
bind = SUPER+SHIFT, right, hy3:movewindow, r, once
bind = SUPER+SHIFT, down, hy3:movewindow, d, once
bind = SUPER+SHIFT, up, hy3:movewindow, u, once

plugin {
    hy3 {
      no_gaps_when_only = 1

      autotile {
          enable = true
          trigger_width = 300
          triger_heigth = 500
        }
    }
}

Note: the absence of gap is a personal change that have nothing to do with the topic. But you should know that by with hyp3, we can have no border on the first app then a border to separate when multiple.

I will add more later, but I wanted to share.

Omarchy is awesome and even more with a little of i3/sway.

[ludo237]

I guess this can become a theme you can install

[bastnic]

I just added that to change the window focused by mouse/trackpad on click only, not hover.

input {
    follow_mouse = 2 # only if we click
}

[bastnic]

a better group integration (than previous) have been merged #656. It's still not exactly like i3 / https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3

[muhammad-aaun]

I think there should be an option to switch between titling layout like master, dwindle or i3/sway this will be better as every one can use what they like using