split-monitor-workspaces

A small plugin to provide awesome/dwm-like behavior with workspaces: split them between monitors and provide independent numbering

Requirements

• Hyprland >= v0.38.1

Installing

Since Hyprland plugins don't have ABI guarantees, you should download the Hyprland source and compile it if you plan to use plugins. This ensures the compiler version is the same between the Hyprland build you're running, and the plugins you are using.

The guide on compiling and installing Hyprland manually is on the wiki

Using hyprpm

Hyprpm is a tool integrated with the latest Hyprland version, to use it first you'll need to add the repository and then enable the plugin

hyprpm add https://github.com/Duckonaut/split-monitor-workspaces # Add the plugin repository
hyprpm enable split-monitor-workspaces # Enable the plugin
hyprpm reload # Reload the plugins

Manual installation

1. Export the HYPRLAND_HEADERS variable to point to the root directory of the Hyprland repo
   • export HYPRLAND_HEADERS="$HOME/repos/Hyprland"
2. Compile
   • make all
3. Add this line to the bottom of your hyprland config
   • exec-once=hyprctl plugin load <ABSOLUTE PATH TO split-monitor-workspaces.so>

NixOS installation

With flakes enabled, a sample installation will look like this:

# flake.nix
{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    home-manager = {
      url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

    hyprland.url = "github:hyprwm/Hyprland";
    split-monitor-workspaces = {
      url = "github:Duckonaut/split-monitor-workspaces";
      inputs.hyprland.follows = "hyprland"; # <- make sure this line is present for the plugin to work as intended
    };
  };

  outputs = {
    self,
    nixpkgs,
    home-manager,
    split-monitor-workspaces,
    ...
  }: let
    system = "x86_64-linux";
    #        ↑ Swap it for your system if needed
    pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
  in {
    nixosConfigurations = {
      yourHostname = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
        system = "x86_64-linux";
        modules = [
          # ...
          home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
          {
            home-manager = {
              useGlobalPkgs = true;
              useUserPackages = true;
              users.yourUsername = {
                wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
                  # ...
                  plugins = [
                    split-monitor-workspaces.packages.${pkgs.system}.split-monitor-workspaces
                  ];
                  # ...
                };
              };
            };
          }
        ];
        # ...
      };
    };
  };
}

You will need to have home-manager installed and configured. You use wayland.windowManager.hyprland.plugins = []; to add the plugin. The home-manager module will handle the rest.

Usage

The plugin provides drop-in replacements for workspace-related commands

Normal	Replacement
workspace	split-workspace
movetoworkspace	split-movetoworkspace
movetoworkspacesilent	split-movetoworkspacesilent

And two new ones, to move windows between monitors

Normal	Arguments
split-cycleworkspaces	next/prev/+1/-1
split-changemonitor	next/prev/+1/-1
split-changemonitorsilent	next/prev/+1/-1

It also provides the following config values

Name	Type	Default	Description
plugin:split-monitor-workspaces:count	int	10	How many workspaces to bind to the monitor
plugin:split-monitor-workspaces:keep_focused	boolean	0	Keep current workspaces focused on plugin init/reload
plugin:split-monitor-workspaces:enable_notifications	boolean	0	Enable notifications
plugin:split-monitor-workspaces:enable_persistent_workspaces	boolean	1	Enable management of persistent workspaces. This means the plugin will at initialization create $count workspaces on each monitor and make them persistent.

This plugin supports waybar's hyprland/workspaces module. You can configure it like this:

"hyprland/workspaces": {
    "format": "{icon}",
    "format-icons": {
      "urgent": "",
      "active": "", // focused workspace on current monitor 
      "visible": "", // focused workspace on other monitors
      "default": "",
      "empty": "" // persistent (created by this plugin)
    },
    "all-outputs": false // recommended
  },

If your workspace-per-monitor count is 10, the first monitor will have workspaces 1-10, the second 11-20 and so on. They will be accessed via numbers 1-10 while your mouse is on a given monitor.

Example

# in your hyprland config file:

plugin {
    split-monitor-workspaces {
        count = 5
        keep_focused = 0
        enable_notifications = 0
        enable_persistent_workspaces = 1
    }
}

$mainMod = SUPER
# Switch workspaces with mainMod + [0-5]
bind = $mainMod, 1, split-workspace, 1
bind = $mainMod, 2, split-workspace, 2
bind = $mainMod, 3, split-workspace, 3
bind = $mainMod, 4, split-workspace, 4
bind = $mainMod, 5, split-workspace, 5

# Move active window to a workspace with mainMod + SHIFT + [0-5]
bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 1, split-movetoworkspacesilent, 1
bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 2, split-movetoworkspacesilent, 2
bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 3, split-movetoworkspacesilent, 3
bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 4, split-movetoworkspacesilent, 4
bind = $mainMod SHIFT, 5, split-movetoworkspacesilent, 5

Special thanks

• hyprsome: An earlier project of similar nature