A Hyprland plugin manager

[!IMPORTANT] Deprecated This plugin has been all but made obsolete by Hyprland now including hyprpm, its own plugin manager. hyprload will likely not receive additional updates, as even I have switched over to hyprpm.

Features

• [x] Loading plugins
• [x] Reloading plugins
• [x] Installing and updating plugins automatically
  • [x] A unified plugin manifest format
  • [x] Installing from git
  • [x] Installing from local
  • [X] Self-hosting
• [ ] Plugin browser

Requirements

• Hyprland >= 0.31.0
• jq (required for checking Hyprland version)
• polkit (required to set up Hyprland plugin env)
  • You will need an authentication agent set up. lxsession works for me.
• cpio (required during installation for file management)

Installing

1. Install hyprload
   • curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Duckonaut/hyprload/main/install.sh | bash
2. Add this to your config to initialize hyprload
   • exec-once=$HOME/.local/share/hyprload/hyprload.sh

Setup

1. To have hyprload manage your plugin installation, create a hyprload.toml file (by default, next to your hyprland.conf config: ~/.config/hypr/hyprload.toml
2. Fill it out with the plugins you want. It consists of one array, named plugins, in which you can provide the installation source in various ways. Example:

plugins = [
    # Installs the plugin from https://github.com/Duckonaut/split-monitor-workspaces
    "Duckonaut/split-monitor-workspaces",
    # A more explicit definition of the git install
    { git = "https://github.com/Duckonaut/split-monitor-workspaces", branch = "main", name = "split-monitor-workspaces" },
    # Installs the same plugin from a local folder
    { local = "/home/duckonaut/repos/split-monitor-workspaces" },
]

3. Add keybinds to the hyprload dispatcher in your hyprland.conf for the functions you want.
   • Possible values:
     • load: Loads all the plugins
     • clear: Unloads all the plugins
     • reload: Unloads then reloads all the plugins
     • install: Installs the required plugins from hyprload.toml
     • update: Updates hyprload and the required plugins from hyprload.toml
   • Example:

bind=SUPERSHIFT,R,hyprload,reload
bind=SUPERSHIFT,U,hyprload,update

Configuration

The configuration of hyprload behavior is done in hyprland.conf, like a normal plugin

Plugin Development

If you maintain a plugin for Hyprland, to support automatic management via hyprload.toml, you need to create a hyprload.toml manifest in the root of your repository. hyprload cannot assume the way your plugins are built.

Format

The plugin manifest needs to specify some information about the plugins in the repo. If you're familiar with TOML, it means specifying two dictionaries per plugin - PLUGIN_NAME and PLUGIN_NAME.build. The PLUGIN_NAME dictionary has basic information about the plugin like the version, the description and the author. These are not used currently, and can be omitted if you don't want to bother for now.

The PLUGIN_NAME.build dictionary is much more important, as it holds 2 important values: output, which is the path to the built plugin .so from the repo root, and steps, which holds the commands to run to build that .so. hyprload will define HYPRLAND_HEADERS while building the plugin, and guarantees the version of the headers matches the Hyprland version you're running.

It's important to note that the hyprload.toml plugin manifest can hold multiple plugins. This allows you to define a single manifest for a monorepo.

The full specification of a PLUGIN_NAME dict:

Examples

Single plugin

split-monitor-workspaces

[split-monitor-workspaces]
description = "Split monitor workspaces"
version = "1.0.0"
author = "Duckonaut"

[split-monitor-workspaces.build]
output = "split-monitor-workspaces.so"
steps = [
    "make all",
]

Multiple plugins

Here's what the manifest would look like for the official plugins.

[borders-plus-plus]
description ="A plugin to add more borders to windows."
version = "1.0"
author = "Vaxry"

[borders-plus-plus.build]
output = "borders-plus-plus/borders-plus-plus.so"
steps = [
    "make -C borders-plus-plus all",
]

[csgo-vulkan-fix]
description = "A plugin to fix incorrect mouse offsets on csgo in Vulkan"
version = "1.0"
author = "Vaxry"

[csgo-vulkan-fix.build]
output = "csgo-vulkan-fix/csgo-vulkan-fix.so"
steps = [
    "make -C csgo-vulkan-fix all",
]

[hyprbars]
description = "A plugin to add title bars to windows"
version = "1.0"
author = "Vaxry"

[hyprbars.build]
output = "hyprbars/hyprbars.so"
steps = [
    "make -C hyprbars all",
]