/hyprXPrimary

Set a primary X11 display for hyprland

Primary LanguageC++BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Primary XWayland display for Hyprland

Many XWayland programs (mostly games) do weird things in multi-monitor configurations where the monitors have different sizes. Setting a primary XWayland monitor usually fixes them. You can do it via 'xrandr' but why not automate it as much as possible?

Using hyprpm, Hyprland's official plugin manager (recommended)

  1. Run hyprpm add https://github.com/zakk4223/hyprXPrimary and wait for hyprpm to build the plugin.
  2. Run hyprpm enable hyprXPrimary

Using hyprload

Add the line "zakk4223/hyprXPrimary", to your hyprload.toml config, like this

plugins = [
    "zakk4223/hyprXPrimary",
]

Then update via the hyprload,update dispatcher.

Manual installation

  1. Build the plugin
    • make all
  2. Load the plugin however you load other Hyprland plugins.
    • exec-once = hyprctl plugin load <ABSOLUTE PATH TO hyprXPrimary.so>

Customization

  1. Get the name of the monitor you want to make primary:
hyprctl monitors

  1. Add the following to your hyprland configuration:

    Replace DP-1 with the name you want.

plugin {
    xwaylandprimary {
        display = DP-1
    }
}
  1. Restart the hyprland configuration.