Configuration

Caution

The AGS version of illogical impulse is no longer supported.

Although it may still work you’ll have to deal with problems by yourself.

New issue about AGS version will very likely get closed as not planned.

Configuring Hyprland

The following and also many other things are powered by Hyprland.

• global keybindings
• environment variables
• display/monitors/workspaces
• window animations/decorations
• …

Reference: Hyprland Wiki

To configure Hyprland, edit the files under ~/.config/hypr/custom/ which are sourced by ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf).

• Hyprland reads hyprland.conf. When it sees a source keyword, it reads the sourced file, then keeps going.

The install.sh script will not overwrite ~/.config/hypr/custom/.

Also, as for ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf, it will not be overwritten when it exists, but a ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf.new will be generated. The *.new file is only for format reference, and has no effect at all.

Caution

To override the default configs, you may need to use some techniques, such as unbind for keybinds.

And if you’re not able to override something, you can copy the default config file from ~/.config/hypr/hyprland/ to ~/.config/hypr/custom/, and edit ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf to comment out the line which source the default config file.

But if you find something wrong with Hyprland after updating using install.sh, you need to re-check ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf to see if the commented-out default config file contains some neccessary changes.

Enabling blur for apps

In ~/.config/hypr/hyprland/rules.conf, comment out (with a #) or remove the following line

windowrule = noblur,.*  # Disables blur for windows. Substantially improves performance.

Configuring AGS

The following and also some other things are powered by AGS.

• top bar
• side bars
• cheatsheet
• notification
• overview widget

For end users

Edit ~/.config/ags/user_options.jsonc, which won’t be overwritten by install.sh when you update You can configure stuff like

• Default ChatGPT-like assistant provider
• Animation speed
• Time format
• …

Note

For configs that are not limited to AGS, see the “Misc” section.

Set date and time format

In ~/.config/ags/user_options.jsonc, edit the “time” section according to this format. You may also run man date for time format.

Set city for weather widget

When no battery is detected (typically a desktop computer), the battery widget and the utility widget will not be displayed. Instead, a weather widget will appear in this position.

The city for weather is detected by curl ipinfo.io by default, or explicitly set in ~/.config/ags/user_options.jsonc.

Note

If you’re unsure about the name of city, since we’re using wttr.in to provide weather information, you may find out the answer there.

Set keybinds

The keybinds to be configured are limited and you need to refer to gdk document to know the keys, but it works.

See #5 for more.

Custom widget

You can use the output of a bash script for a widget. If ~/.cache/ags/user/scripts/custom-module-poll.sh exists, AGS will display its output every 5000ms by default in place of system resources indicators

For example, to display the available storage space of path /:

~/.cache/ags/user/scripts/custom-module-poll.sh

#!/bin/bash
export LANG=C
disk_info=$(df -h /)
available=$(echo "$disk_info" | awk 'NR==2 {print $4}')
total=$(echo "$disk_info" | awk 'NR==2 {print $2}')
echo "$available/$total"

And a less configurable 2-line version, if you prefer:

~/.cache/ags/user/scripts/custom-module-poll.sh

#!/bin/bash
LANG=C df -h / | awk 'NR==2 {printf "%s/%s\n", $4, $2}'

Note

Remember to make your script executable!

chmod +x ~/.cache/ags/user/scripts/*.sh

For futher customization:

• Polling interval, in milliseconds: ~/.cache/ags/user/scripts/custom-module-interval.txt (default = 5000)
• Left-click action script: ~/.cache/ags/user/scripts/custom-module-leftclick.sh
• Right-click action script: ~/.cache/ags/user/scripts/custom-module-rightclick.sh

For nerds (doubts you aren’t)

• See AGS Docs
• Also Dev notes (see the sidebar)

Misc

Resize the UI / change font size

Changing the font size will also change the UI scale for AGS.

• Using gsettings:

# Syntax
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'FONT_NAME FONT_SIZE'
# Default of these dotfiles
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Rubik 11'

Configure Screen Lock

Auto Screen Lock

Reference: Hyprland Wiki

Edit ~/.config/hypr/hypridle.conf to your needs.

Custom Hyprlock

Reference: Hyprland Wiki

Hyprlock is the default screenlock provider.

Edit ~/.config/hypr/hyprlock.conf as you want.

For example, to set the date and time format, change the value of the text which corresponds to the lock.

Use another screenlock provider

Reference: Arch Wiki

Take swaylock as example.

Edit ~/.config/hypr/hypridle.conf and modify the value of $lock_cmd as follows:

$lock_cmd = swaylock

And ensure hypridle is running (typically it should autostart if you have exec-once = hypridle in Hyprland config).

As a result, loginctl lock-session will call swaylock to lock the screen.

How

The command loginctl lock-session will send signal to the running hypridle process, and then hypridle will trigger the command from the value of $lock_cmd.

Cloudflare WARP

• This might help you bypass your ISP’s restrictions and provide a faster internet
• There will be a button on the right sidebar to toggle WARP if it’s installed
• To install Cloudflare WARP, run yay -S cloudflare-warp-bin && sudo systemctl enable warp-svc --now