dots-hyprland/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

• Please, please, please, make multiple PRs if you have many features/fixes, and don't shove your personal changes along with the PR, including changed defaults
• We can accept features that we do not personally want, but in that case we will ask you to make it configurable/optionally loaded.
• If you want to start working on something big to contribute, it might be a good idea to ask first to not waste your effort (but if you've already done it for yourself, it doesn't hurt to submit).

Code details

Dynamic loading

• If something's not always necessary, especially when guarded by a config option to enable/disable, put it in a Loader. One tip with Loaders is sometimes you will need to declare positioning properties (like anchors) in the Loader, not the sourceComponent.

Practical concerns

• Make sure what you add does not require significant resources for a minor purpose or harm usability just for the sake of looking nice. The dotfiles must remain practical for daily driving.
• If there is something really fancy and impractical anyway, add a config option for it and make sure it's disabled by default.

Setting up

The following instruction assumes that you have an Arch(-based) Linux system.

Complete

Might not be necessary depending on what you change, but this is recommended.

• Install the dotfiles (if you don't wanna replace your stuff completely, do it on a new user).
• Make changes, copy changes to a fork, create PR.

Partially working shell

Most stuff in the shell will work but not everything.

• Install Hyprland and the development version of Quickshell (yay -S hyprland quickshell-git).
• Copy .config/quickshell folder to your home directory.

Extra setup for Quickshell

• Quickshell-specific LSP setup: Run touch ~/.config/quickshell/ii/.qmlls.ini for proper LSP support.
• Hint for VSCode: Get the official "Qt Qml" extension, go to its settings and change custom exe path to /usr/bin/qmlls6.

Python

If your changes involves using python package or script, please use the virtual environment created by uv as described in scriptdata/uv/README.md.

Running

• Launch Hyprland (not the "uwsm-managed" one)
• For the shell:
  • Open ~/.config/quickshell/ii in your code editor.
  • In a terminal run pkill qs; qs -c ii to start the shell in the terminal (for logs).
  • Make edits in the opened folder. Changes are reloaded live.