Hypr Drift Desktop Environment is a responsive, animated, and modular desktop experience built on top of Hyprland. It aims to deliver smooth, fluid visuals and a traditional desktop feel while staying lightweight and extensible.

Whether you want a minimalist tiling workflow or a polished, feature-rich DE, Hypr Drift adapts to your preferences.

Hypr Drift is designed for users who want:

• Smooth animations and responsive input without sacrificing performance
• Traditional desktop features like alt-tab, minimizing, system tray, and wallpapers
• Highly modular components that can be swapped, extended, or removed
• Clean configuration and theming using YAML files with sensible defaults
• Wayland-native experience with modern features, built on Hyprland

Hypr Drift DE enhances Hyprland with the creature comforts of a full desktop environment—without the overhead.

• Animated and glossy UI (fully toggleable)
• Auto-tiling window manager with minimize and alt-tab
• Drop-down terminal and clipboard history integration
• Lock screen and wallpaper support
• D-Bus integration and IPC-based orchestration
• Shared YAML-based theming
• QML-based shell interface with modular components

Hypr Drift DE is built from modular components with clear separation of concerns:

Handles system logic, state awareness, and coordination of frontend features. Key modules include:

• Apps Manager – Launching and indexing applications
• Drift Core – Session initialization and orchestrator
• D-Bus Manager – IPC and communication bridge
• Logging – Runtime logs and debugging output
• Process Manager – Background task tracking
• Session Manager – Ensures valid graphical session and exports session variables
• Settings Manager – Parses and applies user settings from YAML
• Theme Manager – Loads and propagates theme data
• Wallpaper Manager – Controls wallpapers across outputs

All modules ship with sensible defaults and can be modified independently.

A modular shell built using Quickshell, written in QML/Qt. It provides the visible user interface and receives state updates from the daemon.

• hyprland
• hyprpaper
• hyprlock
• cliphist
• tinted-theming
• pavucontrol
• A Nerd Font installed system-wide

• qt6-base, qt6-declarative, qt6-tools
• cmake
• g++ or clang++

Clone the repo and run the installer script from inside the root directory:

git clone https://github.com/yourname/hyprdriftde.git
cd hyprdriftde
sudo ./install.sh

Special thanks to the developers of:

• Hyprland – for building a beautifully fast and extensible Wayland compositor.
• Quickshell – for providing a powerful and elegant QML-based desktop shell framework.

Hypr Drift DE wouldn’t exist without the incredible work and inspiration provided by these projects. Thank you for pushing the Linux desktop forward.