CHANGELOG.md

Changelog — JAK's Hyprland Dotfiles

v2.3.20

• Bugfix release
• Fixed issue with express-update
  • It bypassed the code to remove duplicates in system vs. user
  • Now checks for dups in version <= 2.3.19
  • Improved the checking code for better matching system vs. User
  • Merged tak0dan update to Tak0-Autodispatch.sh script
  • Removed stale nvim config. It was never copied but not needed

v2.3.19

• 2026-01-20

• Fixed CSS to format the custom/nightlight module

• Fixed padding on some CSS files

• 2026-01-19

• Removed "Set wallpaper SDDM prompt"

• When changing wallpaper there is no longer a prompt to set it on SDDM

• It's now a menu option under Quick Settings menu SUPER SHIFT + E

• Fixed Glass style sheets

• 2026-01-16

• Added Rainbow Borders sub memu

  • Code provided by brunoorsolon
  • There are now mulitple modes for the Rainbow Borders feature
  • Disabled, Wallust Color, Rainbow, Gradient flow
  • Thank you for the submission

• Disabled RainbowBorders.sh by default

• Use the quick setings menu SUPERSHIFT + E to enable, select mode

• 2026-01-15

• Created waybar configs for ML4W Glass style

• TOP & Bottom Summit - glass

• Default Laptop - Glass

• Everforest - Glass

• Fixed menu for express-update

• Fixed Toggle Rainbow checked for wrong file

• 2026-01-13

• Added Toggle Rainbow borders option to settings menu

• SUPERSHIFT+E search for Rainbow

• It will toggle the current state and run Refresh.sh to start or stop

  • Thanks to @Arkboi for suggesting it.
  • Later if there are more settings like this I will create a new menu

• 2026-01-11

  • Improved ML4W Glass theme
    • Now has proper 3d gradient look
    • Theme based nightlight color
  • copy.sh is now more modular
    • Helper scripts in scripts dir per function
    • Making copy.sh smaller (1200 lines to 800 so far)
    • Easier to maintain going forward

• 2026-01-09

  • Fixed: Keybind parser latency
    • Changed the parsing login to python instead of bash
    • Also fixed duplicates when you unmap, then remap keybinds
      • Ex. Change keybind for file manger
        • Both the old and new keybind were show in keybind menu
  • Added: --express-update to copy.sh
    • ./copy.sh --express-update
    • This will bypass some of the questions
      • Updating SDDM wallpaper
      • Downloading wallpaper from repo
        • Mostly like that was done at install time or previous upgrade
      • Restoring User configs :
        • Weather.sh and Weather.sh
        • Rofibeats.sh
        • etc.
      • Automatically trims the backed up directories leaving just latest backup
      • This dramatically reduces the time/effort to update dotfiles
        • Most users don't restore these custom files on upgrades

• 2026-01-08

• Fixed: MPRIS artwork in Sway notification center only 10 pixels

  • Adjusted to 96 pixels
  • Thank you @godlyfas for fixing this

• Fixing scripts

  • TouchPad.sh never expands $TOUCHPAD_ENABLED (and doesn’t source the file that defines it)
  • Volume.sh has multiple microphone-control bugs (bad pamixer arguments, typoed function name, invalid notification payloads) that break mic toggling and volume feedback.
  • DarkLight.sh wipes the Qt theme paths each run because the qt5ct/qt6ct palette variables are commented out.
  • KooLsDotsUpdate.sh contains a malformed notify-send string that crashes the script when no local version is detected.
  • Distro_update.sh runs sudo apt upgrade outside the kitty window, so the Debian/Ubuntu flow never finishes inside the terminal.
  • Hypridle.sh now launches hypridle in the background (& disown) when enabling the daemon, preventing the toggle command from hanging Waybar.
  • RofiSearch.sh verifies that jq is available, captures the user’s query explicitly, URL-encodes it via jq @uri,
    • opens the configured search engine with the encoded query instead of dropping the term.
  • Sounds.sh now tries pw-play, then paplay, then aplay, emitting a clear error if none are installed, so the script no longer calls the non-existent pa-play.
  • Tak0-Per-Window-Switch.sh now records the listener PID in ~/.cache/kb_layout_per_window.listener.pid and reuses it if still running, preventing multiple background listeners, and reports missing Hyprland sockets without exiting the main script.
  • WaybarScripts.sh adds a launch_files() helper that checks $files before execution; if unset, it shows a notification instead of running an empty command.
  • sddm_wallpaper.sh validates ~/.config/rofi/wallust/colors-rofi.rasi before use, extracts colors via a helper, and aborts with a notification if any required colors are missing.
  • WallustSwww.sh now reads the focused monitor’s cache file (or parses swww query per-monitor) to pick the correct wallpaper path
    • Eliminating the previous “last line wins” bug on multi-monitor setups.
    • Wallpaper and global theme changes are now dramatically faster
  • PortalHyprland.sh suppresses harmless killall errors and launches only the first available portal binary in each category (hyprland + general)
    • Avoiding duplicate processes when both /usr/lib and /usr/libexec variants exist.
  • KillActiveProcess.sh checks that Hyprland returned a numeric PID before calling kill
    • Notifies the user when no active window is available instead of throwing kill usage errors.

• 2026-01-06

  • Added Global Theme Changer.
    • There are many themes to choose from
    • SUPER + T
  • Added "Glass Style" taken from ML4W dotfiles
    • Thank you TheAhumMaitra
  • Fixed more WindowRules
  • Fixed rofi themes to work with Theme changer
  • Added ghostty terminal config file integrated with Themes
    • ghostty is not installed by default
    • The COPR is already there for Fedora
      • sudo dnf install ghostty
  • The COPR repo for wezterm is also available
    • sudo dnf install wezterm
    • A config file is already available when you install it
    • Most other distros have these terminals in their repo

• 2026-01-04

• Fullscreen or maximized would exit using ALT-TAB (cycle next/bring-to-front)

  • User GoodBorn found this fix

  �misc {
   on_focus_under_fullscreen = 1
   # 0 - Default, no change
   # 1 - New focused window takes over fullscreen (Windows-like Alt-Tab)
   # 2 - New focused window stays behind the fullscreen one
   }
  

  Note: The above change only works on Hyprland v0.53+. Users with lower will have to comment that line out. ~/.config/hypr/UserSettings/SystemSettings.conf

• Added: modal rule so popup diaglog, like Save as or Open File center and float by default

  • windowrule = float on, center on, match:modal:1

• 2026-01-01

• Added more blur and enabled xray

  • Thank you TheAhumMaitra

• 2025-12-31

  • Fixed rule for Gnome Calculator
    • Thanks Warlord for finding/fixing that
  • Fixed rule for yad
    • Size was being overridden by settings tag
  • ~/Pictures now follows XDG dir vs. hard coded
    • Thanks for Jaël Champagne Gareau for the code
  • Fixed opache toggle
  • Weather.py and Weather.sh updated and improved
    • Thank you Lumethra
  • Added network check to WeatherWrap script
    • Thank you Maximilian Zhu
  • Added sample workspace rules to start apps on specific workspaces
    • They are commented out but serve as references

• 2025-12-29

  • Fixed pathing in Wallust script
    • Thank you Lumethra

— 2025-12-22

• Added:
  • Optional keybinding to increment/decrement audio in 1% steps vs. 5%
    • Thanks rgarofono for the code
• Fixed:
  • Switch Layout was looking in wrong location
  • SUPER - J/K not working in both master and dwindle layouts
    • You also get notification message on layout change
    • Thanks @suresh466 for fixing it

v2.3.18 — 2025-12-10

FIXES:

• Updated: Made the WindowRules file for 0.53+ the default
  • There are more distros now running 0.53.1 vs. earlier versions
  • The older file is still there for those users not yet up to date
• Fixed: Opacity for vscode configured multiple times
• Fixed: Quickshell overview not working, error "Quickshell or AGS not installed"
  • If shell.qml exists in ~/.config/quickshell that blocks overview
  • That file isn't configured for overview
  • Without that file, it will look in the overview directory and load the QML code
• Fixed: Waybar Modules, locale not included in clock format
  • Always showed US-EN
  • Thanks to albersonmiranda for finding and fixing it
• Fixed: Not all waybars had custom/nightlight
• Fixed: Weather.py cache wasn't updating when UNITS changed from C to F
• Fixed: Wallpapers with periods in names truncated
  • #873
  • Thanks to @godlyfast for the fix.
• Fixed: Overview Toggle keyind SUPER + A now properly detects QuickShell
  • If QS overview fails, or is not installed, AGS overview will be started instead
• Fixed: Super J/K cycle next/prev weren't working in both master / dwindle
• Fixed: Weather.py one-off run
• Removed: Hyprsunset from status group.
  • Credit: Alberson Miranda
• Added: more application icons for waybars
• Weather.py basically rewritten to improve look and functionality
  • Credit: Prabin Panta
  • The Jak team also heavily contributed to the rewrite
• Fixed: Waybar
  • Changing the waybar config SUPERALT + B would sometimes need to be done twice
  • Cause: options were incorrect annotated with "👉 ${name}"
• Fixed: GameMode.sh to function consistently
• Updated: WalllustSwww.sh wallpaper path
• Corrected: Typo in Show Open Apps
• GameMode.sh / Refresh.sh
  • Enabling / Disabling repeatedly would result in multiple waybars
  • Added additional sleep commands in GameMode.sh and Refresh.sh
  • Resolves Issue 870

CHANGES:

• ChangeLayout.sh continues to rebind dynamically when layouts are toggled.

  • Credits: Suresh Thagunna
  • For identifying the mismatch and proposing an auto-alignment approach.

• Startup config order:

  • load System Defaults Startup_Apps and WindowRules first
  • Then user overlays, restoring baseline autostarts while keeping user additions.

• Lock screen:

  • Clock now horizontal and smaller
  • Adjust spacing margines of the various fields
  • Small changes to color variables Trying to balance colors
  • Fixed both 1080 and 2K+ configurations

• UserConfigs/Startup_App.conf is now sourced in hyprland.conf

  • It was being sourced twice

• Some scripts weren't executable

  • scripts/Battery.sh
  • scripts/ComposeHyprConfigs.sh
  • scripts/OverviewToggle.sh
  • scripts/sddm_wallpaper.sh

• Updated: SWWW to v0.11.2

  • Fixes numerous issues
  • Portrait monitors especially
  • SWWW isn't being maintained In future will switch to AWWWW

• Added: A message before installing wallpapers that some are AI generated or enhanced

• Changed: /usr/bin/bash to /usr/bin/evn bash for better portability

• Adjusted: Small change to DropDownterminal.sh

  • Increased top margin % to center it more
  • Widened it.
  • These options are settable in the script.

FEATURES:

• Hyprsunset retains last state on/off
  • Credit: Alberson Miranda
• Fastfetch now displays the version of the Jak Dotfiles
• ChangeLayout.sh
  • Dynamically binds SUPER J/K based on current layout
  • Previously only worked in Master Layout
  • Credit: Suresh Thagunna
  • Along with that KeybindsLayoutInit script reads current default layout
  • Then it adjusts the SUPER J/K keybindings appropriately
• RofiBeats dynamic music system added
• Binds now include descriptions.
  • Switched from bind to bindd
  • Improves usability of keybind search
• Add new laptop gesture for zoom system.

Thanks to everyone that contributed, or reported issues.

Contributors:

Alberson Miranda TheAhumMaitra Prabin Panta Suresh Thagunna @goldlyfast

October 2025

⌨️ Keybinds

• Convert Hyprland keybinds to description form (bindd, bindld, binded, bindmd, bindlnd) in config/hypr/....
• Add concise descriptions for each keybind; keep the name "powermenu".
• Update config/hypr/scripts/KeyBinds.sh to parse and display descriptions as: MODS+KEY — DESCRIPTION — DISPATCHER [PARAMS].

🐛 Fixes

• Updated /bin/bash to /usr/bin/env bash
• Correct windowrule syntax error.
• Ensure wallpaper selector applies wallpaper to SDDM.
• Update theme colors when a new wallpaper is selected.

🖥️ Jak dotfiles version now in fastfetch output.

🌦️ Weather.py

Key Changes:

• 2nd Weather.py Update by prabinpanta0
• ♻️ Substantial rewrite.
• ✨ New unified weather entrypoint (weatherWrap.sh)
  • With Python-first execution
• 🔒 Automatic weather updates before screen lock
• 🚀 Weather cache initialization at session startup
• 🛡️ Enhanced error handling and fallback mechanisms
• 📍 Automatic location detection via IP geolocation
• 🎨 Improved weather condition mapping and JSON output

🖥️ Support for debian and ubuntu installs

• Providing they are using Hyprland 0.51.1 or greater

🖥️ Drop-down terminal

• 🔧 Start on login via TerminalDropDown.sh so first invocation works.
• 🐱 Use Kitty explicitly instead of $TERM for consistent behavior.

🌇 HyprSunset

• 🔧 Availble from waybar orSUPER + N

🖱️ Gestures

• 🔧 Updated to accommodate Hyprland 0.5x changes.

👥 Contributors

• prabinpanta0
• CharlyMH
• ndeekshith
• SherLock707
• SVIGHNESH

If you have any questions, feel free to contact via GitHub Discussions or Through Discord Server