Demo post — not real content

This article is a placeholder that exists to demonstrate how the V&G Blue Hugo theme renders a typical technical write-up. The Hyprland configuration shown below is illustrative; it is not a real personal setup and should not be copied verbatim.

I switched to Hyprland a year ago and never went back. It is fast, it is Wayland-native, and the config file reads like a tiny DSL instead of a maze of GNOME settings. This post is the minimal version of what I actually run — no fifty-line shadow tweaks, no thirty animated workspaces, just the parts that earn their place every day.

What you need

A short shopping list. Everything below is available in the Arch repos or the AUR:

• hyprland — the compositor itself
• waybar — top status bar
• wofi — application launcher
• kitty — terminal emulator
• hyprlock and hypridle — lock screen and idle daemon
• grim + slurp — screenshots
• wl-clipboard — clipboard utilities

I avoid the all-in-one ricing packs. They give you a beautiful screenshot and a config you do not understand.

Window rules

Hyprland’s rule syntax is one of the reasons I stayed. You match by class, title, or both, and apply behavior declaratively:

# Float dialogs and pickers
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(pavucontrol)$
windowrulev2 = float, class:^(nm-connection-editor)$
windowrulev2 = float, title:^(Open File)$

# Keep media on workspace 5
windowrulev2 = workspace 5 silent, class:^(Spotify)$
windowrulev2 = workspace 5 silent, class:^(mpv)$

# No shadow on tiled terminals
windowrulev2 = noshadow, class:^(kitty)$

Tip. Run hyprctl clients to see the exact class and title strings of every open window. Half the time a rule fails because the regex matches an empty string.

Keybindings

I keep one modifier — SUPER — and resist the urge to add chord prefixes. Muscle memory is the whole point.

The corresponding section in hyprland.conf is just:

$mod = SUPER
$term = kitty
$menu = wofi --show drun

bind = $mod, Q, exec, $term
bind = $mod, D, exec, $menu
bind = $mod, W, killactive
bind = $mod, F, fullscreen, 0
bind = $mod, V, togglefloating
bind = $mod, L, exec, hyprlock

# Workspaces 1..9
bind = $mod, 1, workspace, 1
bind = $mod SHIFT, 1, movetoworkspace, 1
# ...repeat for 2..9

Status bar

Waybar covers the bar. My config is a single JSONC file, and the modules I keep are: workspaces, window title, clock, network, audio, battery. That is it. No weather widget I never look at.

{
  "layer": "top",
  "position": "top",
  "height": 28,
  "modules-left": ["hyprland/workspaces", "hyprland/window"],
  "modules-center": ["clock"],
  "modules-right": ["pulseaudio", "network", "battery"],

  "clock": {
    "format": "{:%a %d %b  %H:%M}"
  },
  "battery": {
    "format": "{capacity}% {icon}",
    "format-icons": ["", "", "", "", ""]
  }
}

The CSS is even shorter — match your theme accent, set a readable monospace font, ship it.

What I would skip

A short list of things I tried and removed:

1. Heavy blur and shadow. Pretty in screenshots, distracting during work.
2. Animated workspace switches above 200 ms. Anything longer feels broken once you do it a hundred times a day.
3. A second status bar at the bottom. Twice the maintenance for half the information density.
4. Dynamic wallpapers tied to the time of day. Cute for a week.

Wrap-up

The full dotfiles live in a small public repo — git clone it, read the four files, copy what you want. If something here looks too opinionated, that is fine: a desktop you have not customized is a desktop you do not own.

If you are still on the fence, give it a weekend. Wayland is no longer the future. It is the present.