Hyprspace

A plugin for Hyprland that implements a workspace overview feature similar to that of KDE Plasma, GNOME and macOS, aimed to provide a efficient way of workspace and window management.

[!NOTE] This plugin is still maintained, by combined efforts of me and all the awesome contributors. However, I do not have as much time that I could spend on this plugin as before, and Hyprland is a rapidly changing codebase. Therefore, at this time, I could not guarantee that new issues could be resolved promptly. I appreciate your acknowledgement and support for this project!

P.S.: I could recommend giving niri a try for anyone who is considering an alternative to Hyprland. It is a scrolling window manager that offers a great built-in overview feature that allows dragging windows in-between workspaces just like this plugin does. It also has better workspace management as it cleans up empty workspaces like GNOME does.

https://github.com/KZDKM/Hyprspace/assets/41317840/ed1a585a-30d5-4a79-a6da-8cc0713828f9

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Plugin Compatibility

• [x] hyprsplit (tested, explicit support)
• [x] split-monitor-workspaces (tested, explicit support)
• [x] hyprexpo (tested, minor bugs)
• [x] Any layout plugin (except ones that override Hyprland's workspace management)

Roadmap

• [x] Overview interface
  • [x] Workspace minimap
  • [x] Workspace display
• [ ] Mouse controls
  • [x] Moving window between workspaces
  • [x] Creating new workspaces
  • [ ] Dragging windows between workspace views
• [ ] Configurability
• [ ] Styling
  • [x] Panel background
  • [x] Workspace background & border
  • [x] Panel on Bottom
  • [ ] Vertical layout (on left / right)
  • [x] Panel top padding (reserved for bar / notch)
  • [x] Panel border (color / thickness)
  • [ ] Unique styling for special workspaces
• [x] Behavior
  • [x] Autodrag windows
  • [x] Autoscroll workspaces
  • [x] Responsive workspace switching
  • [x] Responsive exiting
  • [x] Exit on click / switch
  • [x] Exit with escape key
  • [x] Blacklisting workspaces
  • [x] Show / hide new workspace and empty workspaces
  • [x] Show / hide special workspace (#11)
• [x] Animation support
• [x] Multi-monitor support (tested)
• [x] Monitor scaling support (tested)
• [x] aarch64 support (No function hook used)
• [x] Touchpad & gesture support
• [x] Workspace swipe (#9)
• [x] Scrolling through workspace panel
• [x] Swipe to open

Installation

Manual

To build, have hyprland headers installed and under the repo directory do:

make all

Then use hyprctl plugin load followed by the absolute path to the .so file to load, you could add this to your exec-once to load the plugin on startup

Hyprpm

hyprpm add https://github.com/KZDKM/Hyprspace
hyprpm enable Hyprspace

Nix

Refer to the Hyprland wiki on plugins, but your flake might look like this:

{
  inputs = {
    # Hyprland is **such** eye candy
    hyprland = {
      type = "git";
      url = "https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland";
      submodules = true;
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
    Hyprspace = {
      url = "github:KZDKM/Hyprspace";

      # Hyprspace uses latest Hyprland. We declare this to keep them in sync.
      inputs.hyprland.follows = "hyprland";
    };
  };

... # your normal setup with hyprland

  wayland.windowManager.hyprland.plugins = [
    # ... whatever
    inputs.Hyprspace.packages.${pkgs.system}.Hyprspace
  ];
}

Usage

Opening Overview

• Bind the overview:toggle or perform a workspace swipe vertically would open / close the panel.

Interaction

• Window management:
  • Click on workspace to change to it
  • Click on a window to drag it
  • Drag a window into a workspace would move the window to the workspace
• Exiting
  • Click without dragging the window exits the overview
  • Pressing ESC exits the overview
• Navigating
  • When there are many workspaces open, scroll / swipe on the panel to pan through opened workspaces

Configuration

Dispatchers

• Use overview:toggle dispatcher to toggle workspace overview on current monitor
• Use overview:close to close the overview on current monitor if opened
• Use overview:open to open the overview on current monitor if closed
• Adding the all argument to these dispatchers would toggle / open / close overview on all monitors

Styling

Colors

• plugin:overview:panelColor
• plugin:overview:panelBorderColor
• plugin:overview:workspaceActiveBackground
• plugin:overview:workspaceInactiveBackground
• plugin:overview:workspaceActiveBorder
• plugin:overview:workspaceInactiveBorder
• plugin:overview:dragAlpha overrides the alpha of window when dragged in overview (0 - 1, 0 = transparent, 1 = opaque)
• plugin:overview:disableBlur

Layout

• plugin:overview:panelHeight
• plugin:overview:panelBorderWidth
• plugin:overview:onBottom whether if panel should be on bottom instead of top
• plugin:overview:workspaceMargin spacing of workspaces with eachother and the edge of the panel
• plugin:overview:reservedArea padding on top of the panel, for Macbook camera notch
• plugin:overview:workspaceBorderSize
• plugin:overview:centerAligned whether if workspaces should be aligned at the center (KDE / macOS style) or at the left (Windows style)
• plugin:overview:hideBackgroundLayers do not draw background and bottom layers in overview
• plugin:overview:hideTopLayers do not draw top layers in overview
• plugin:overview:hideOverlayLayers do not draw overlay layers in overview
• plugin:overview:hideRealLayers whether to hide layers in actual workspace
• plugin:overview:drawActiveWorkspace draw the active workspace in overview as-is
• plugin:overview:overrideGaps whether if overview should override the layout gaps in the current workspace using the following values
• plugin:overview:gapsIn
• plugin:overview:gapsOut
• plugin:overview:affectStrut whether the panel should push window aside, disabling this option also disables overrideGaps

Animation

• The panel uses the windows curve for a slide-in animation
• Use plugin:overview:overrideAnimSpeed to override the animation speed

Behaviors

• plugin:overview:autoDrag mouse click always drags window when overview is open
• plugin:overview:autoScroll mouse scroll on active workspace area always switch workspace
• plugin:overview:exitOnClick mouse click without dragging exits overview
• plugin:overview:switchOnDrop switch to the workspace when a window is droppped into it
• plugin:overview:exitOnSwitch overview exits when overview is switched by clicking on workspace view or by switchOnDrop
• plugin:overview:showNewWorkspace add a new empty workspace at the end of workspaces view
• plugin:overview:showEmptyWorkspace show empty workspaces that are inbetween non-empty workspaces
• plugin:overview:showSpecialWorkspace defaults to false
• plugin:overview:disableGestures
• plugin:overview:reverseSwipe reverses the direction of swipe gesture, for macOS peeps?
• plugin:overview:exitKey key used to exit overview mode (default: Escape). Leave empty to disable keyboard exit.
• Touchpad gesture behavior follows Hyprland workspace swipe behavior
• gestures:workspace_swipe_fingers
• gestures:workspace_swipe_cancel_ratio
• gestures:workspace_swipe_min_speed_to_force