ABabhinavk·Aug 25, 2025
FYI: The author of Hyprland's scrolling plugin (not the official one) had archived it and instead forked sway to create scroll.
https://github.com/dawsers/scroll
https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller
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hyprscroller
Hyprland layout plugin providing a scrolling layout like PaperWM
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Hyprland layout plugin providing a scrolling layout like PaperWM
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5 sourcesRelated projects (from niri’s README):
PaperWM (Gnome) https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
karousel (KDE) https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel
niri (wayland) https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
hyprscroller (hyprland plugin) https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller
hyprslidr (hyprland plugin) https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr
PaperWM.spoon (MacOS) https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
In Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wmI confess I am the author of one of these PaperWM-like scrollers for Hyprland, hyprcroller (https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller).
I used almost every DE and tiling window manager before I arrived to PaperWM, and when I moved to Hyprland because of its simplicity and the control it gave me, I had to write a scrolling layout because of how much I missed PaperWM.
- Having a scrolling layout doesn't prevent you from using workspaces, you have both. I use workspaces, some of which are scrolling with rows and columns depending on the task associated to them.
- Jumping to arbitrary locations also takes just one keystroke (and no mouse). For example, hyprscroller supports marks. Set a mark to a window, and you can jump (and get immediate focus) to that window with a key combination. You can move to your editor, e-mail program etc, with one ke
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y press, even if they are in different workspaces and not seen on the screen (kind of like in vim)
- You don't need to browse through stacks of hidden windows, they can all be at their preferred size and "seen" at the same time. Once you accept the paradigm, it is very fast, and there is support for overview modes where you can see all your windows scaled to fit the monitor.
- You can automatically resize a set of windows to fit your monitor with a key stroke, allowing you to have all your currently needed windows (editor, docs, browser) visible at the same time, while you don't "lose" the rest, they are simply outside of the monitor area, a keystroke away, and keeping their original size.
It changed the way I work so much I had to write my own plugin as soon as I moved to Hyprland. You basically forget about the mouse and resizing/moving windows.
For those on hyprland:
[1] hyprslidr: https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr
[2] hyprscroller: https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller
Though need to extend hyprland to support layout outside viewport: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/5489
In Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner supportHyprscroller: Scrolling Hyprland layout plugin like PaperWM
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