Saturday, June 21, 2025

Hyprland Starter and Dotfiles Installer on Fedora 42 KDE Plasma 6.4 (WKS)

At the moment that is a hack installing almost all  of required packages (except ttf-*-*) from Fedora 42 repos instead of AUR. I've setup "kgx" via Copr Repos. Then issued

$ sudo dnf5 install hyprctl  

This step seems to be specific for Fedora 42 vs Tumbleweed or any of Arch Linux Clones . Fedora 42's readiness for installing Hyprland is higher then any other distribution ( except Tumbleweed ) may have which doesn't have direct access to the AUR .

 Setup Dotfiles Installer (GUI based interface) as advised on github page of Stephan Raabe 

$  bash -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles-installer/master/setup.sh)"

During running 

flatpak run com.ml4w.dotfilesinstaller

I've got a list of packages (in popped up gnome-terminal window) which were supposed to be installed via yay as AUR Helper.  This list of packages was placed in input.txt and I just attempted as root following script

for V in `cat input.txt`

do

     dnf5 install $V -y

done

This step resulted almost all packages (except ttf-*-*) from input.txt to be installed on Fedora 42 KDE Plasma 6.4.0. I clearly realize that actions been undertaken were a hack rather then normal development . 

However, all required files under ~/.config/hypr/ were installed properly by "Dotfiles Installer".  I mean that there was no manual intervention.

Now reboot the system and login either to Gnome or to Hyprland

session. In both cases start terminal session ( Super+Enter for Hyprland ) and install

# dnf5 install hyprpaper -y

# dnf5 install hyprlock -y

Re-login with hyprpaper installed. Now you are supposed to get into expected environment









See snapshots below ( Fedora 42 as KVM Guest )

UPDATE as of 06/23/25 Here we go :-





















END UPDATE

 









Dual DE Fedora 42 KDE Plasma 6.4.0 && Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles




























Finally setup above was done on bare metal , the only ttf-*-* packages were missing from input.txt the rest has been installed manually via script executing in loop " # dnf5 install package -y" from input.txt.







































As soon as I would be able to obtain ttf-*-*.tar.xz on Fedora it would make sense to attempt to install them .

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