Arch Linux With Hyprland (Hyde Project) Dotfiles For A Cutting-Edge Experience

Arch Linux With Hyprland (Hyde Project) Dotfiles For A Cutting-Edge Experience

archlinux dotfiles Guide Hyprland Installation Linux Walkthrough

Abdullah Musa

June 15, 2025

Hi all, welcome to MusaBase! In this article, I'll guide you through installing Hyprland with the HyDE dotfiles on Arch Linux. This setup will take your desktop experience to the next level with a sleek and aesthetic design. In this guide, I'll cover:

• Preparing the base Arch Linux system for Hyprland and HyDE
• Installing required packages and dependencies
• Configuring system services for display manager and Arch Linux
• Installing Hyprland with HyDE Dotfiles
• And finally, booting into freshly installed HyDE Hyprland setup

Personally, this is one of the coolest Hyprland dotfiles I've ever used, with its aesthetic color schemes, sleek animations, and overall design. So, Without further ado, let's get started.

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Jump To:

• Prerequisites
• Step 1: Prepare Arch Linux System for HyDE Dotfiles
• Step 2: Install Hyprland with HyDE Dotfiles
• Afterwards

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Prerequisites

For HyDE installation, we only need base or minimal Arch Linux installed. I won't be covering the installation of Arch Linux in this guide. However you if you want to install Arch Linux easily, then please follow the steps explained in Minimal Arch Linux Installation with archinstall Script and install Arch without any Desktop environment. After finishing the installation come back to this guide and continue. Thank you.

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Step 1: Prepare Arch Linux System for HyDE Dotfiles

Performing the following steps is optional, but from my personal experience, installing and configuring some necessary services and packages beforehand makes the HyDE installation process much smoother and simpler.

1.1: Configure the DNS Server (Optional)

Configuring your DNS Server is optional, perform this step only if you encounter any network issues while updating or installing packages in your Linux system.

1.1.1: Install Nano

• First things first, install nano (A command-line text editor) by running this command:

sudo pacman -S nano

1.1.2: Add NameServers

• Now that nano is installed, open the /etc/resolv.conf file in nano to add nameservers:
• Run:

sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

• In the opened file add these nameservers like this:

nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8

• After adding the nameservers, press CTRL + O to save the changes then press Enter to apply the changes, and then press CTRL + X to exit the file.

• /etc/resolv.conf: Is the file that Linux systems use to know which DNS servers to ask when converting user-friendly domain names (like google) into IP addresses..
• nameserver 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1: Tell the resolver the IP address of a DNS server to try. It can be listed as multiple nameservers. The system will generally try them in order.
• Public DNS: Providers like Google's (8.8.8.8) and Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) tend to have very good uptime and robust infrastructure. If your provider's ISP's DNS is slow, using these two can provide more consistent connectivity.

1.2: Update Linux System

• Run:

sudo pacman -Syu

1.3: Install Additional Packages

Although we can install Hyprland and implement HyDE dotfiles right from here, but for a smooth installation without aborting or couldn't resolve dependencies errors these following steps are needed.

• Run:

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel wget curl

• --needed: This flag tells the package manager (pacman) to only install if the package isn't already present or up-to-date. It will skip the following packages if already installed.
• git: Version control system, for cloning repositories, pulling code, etc..
• base-devel: A group of essential development tools (compiler, make, etc), needed for building software from source.
• wget: Is an utility to fetch files over HTTP/s,FTP by commands.
• curl: Similar to wget, but more flexible, support more protocols and a lot of scripting capabilities.

1.4: Install Yay

• Run the following commands consecutively:

cd ~
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

makepkg -si Will build and install the yay from PKGBUILD, The -s flag automatically install any dependencies required by yay such as go from official repos. The i flag will install yay after successfully building its package.

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Step 2: Install Hyprland with HyDE Dotfiles

• Now that everything is set, let's install Hyprland along with HyDE dotfiles.
• Run these commands consecutively:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HyDE-Project/HyDE ~/HyDE
cd ~/HyDE/Scripts
./install.sh

• It can take up-to 20-30 minutes, depending on the speed of your internet connection.
• The installer will ask multiple times for confirmation of installation and choose from different options, just select the default by pressing ENTER, or the first option by pressing 1 and then press ENTER.
• After the installation is complete reboot your system with sudo reboot if, it doesn't reboot automatically and you will be in your freshly installed HyDE Hyprland.

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Afterwards

Now that Arch Linux and a fully Configured Hyprland are installed, you're ready to go. To adjust keybindings (e.g., terminal, browser, file manager) and other settings, edit ~/.config/hypr/userprefs.conf or visit HyDE official repo page for more information, just remember to reload the configuration after editing by running hyprctl reload in terminal or by pressing (SUPER + Shift + R ). I'll cover further customization in another article, this is it for now.

🎉 Congratulations! your Arch Linux system with one of the most Futuristic Hyprland dotfiles is now up and running!

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Abdullah Musa June 15, 2025