tag:hyprland

TIL: How to Run Android Emulator Using avd on Hyprland Recently, I was having issues when trying to run an Android Emulator using Android Studio (avd). When I would try to run an Emulator from the device manager, I would get the following The emulator process for avd xxx has terminated error. Looking deeper into the logs at ~/.local/cache/Google/AndroidStudio2023.1/log/idea.log, I noticed the following: 2024-02-20 12:01:45,859 [ 781674] INFO - Emulator: Pixel 7 Pro API 34 - Android emulator version 33. ...

TIL: How to Fix Firefox Rendering Bug in Hyprland Recently, I had an issue with my Ubuntu laptop running Hyprland, when running Firefox it had this ugly border around it. Which looked something like this: You can see a weird border around the browser, and if you try to view some of the context menus, they appear small and difficult to read. Fix As per this Reddit thread 1. There are two fixes, one upgrade to version 0. ...

TIL: Show to Use the Media Keys on a ZSA Keyboard With Hyprland Recently, I started using a ZSA Voyager split keyboard, moving to this keyboard has some advantages but the last thing I felt I was missing from my old keyboard (which has a volume knob) was being able to control the volume. So I set up the key maps in their software (Oryx) however, I noticed that binding were not working. ...

TIL: How to Set the Path Variable When Using Ubuntu With Nix (Home Manager) As per some of my recent articles, you will be aware I am using Hyprland (tiling manager) on Ubuntu and managing the config using nix (home-manager). I was having issues where for some reason it wouldn’t set the PATH variable correctly. On my NixOS machine, the following would be fine: bind=,XF86AudioRaiseVolume,exec, volume --inc bind=,XF86AudioLowerVolume,exec, volume --dec However, on Ubuntu I needed to provide the full path: ...

As you may know from my previous articles, my work laptop is an Ubuntu (22.04) laptop. However, on the rest of my devices I use NixOS with Hyprland as my tiling window manager. I wanted to be able to use Hyprland on my laptop as well, I tried using Sway and, it worked mostly pretty well, but it was yet another to manage and there were some slight differences. Also, I like the animations on Hyprland 😅. ...

Preamble Now we have looked at our choice of hardware, which OS to use and specifically, how to configure NixOS (at a high-level), using a git repository. In this part, we will go over which window manager to use. There are two main types we could use here. Either a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE. Which comes with batteries included, it provides us with everything we need and we don’t need to configure much to get stuff working. ...

TIL: How to get Kanshi to work on NixOS and Hyprland I have been using Kanshi to setup my monitor setups automagically depending on which monitors are plugged i.e. if my laptop is docked or not. If it is docked I want my laptop display to be off, when not docked I want it to be on. So my kanshi config file ~/.config/kanshi/config to look something like: I use the name of my monitors as the ports they are plugged into my vary. ...