Hyprland Dock

A lightweight macOS-inspired application dock for Hyprland, built with Quickshell and Qt/QML.

Features

• Smooth pointer-distance magnification
• Freedesktop application icons and launching
• Focuses an existing application on another workspace
• Running-application indicators
• Drag-to-reorder with persistent pinned-app order
• Right-click actions to launch, close, pin, or unpin applications
• Fuzzy application search for adding dock items
• Configurable dock background transparency
• Optional reserved screen space
• Optional auto-hide with screen-edge reveal
• Live JSON configuration reload
• Multi-monitor support

Requirements

• Hyprland
• Quickshell 0.3 or newer
• A working freedesktop icon theme

Install

Make sure Quickshell is installed, then run:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nick-friedrich/hyprland-dock/master/install.sh | bash

The installer uses only user directories, requires no sudo, and creates an XDG autostart entry. To install without autostart:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nick-friedrich/hyprland-dock/master/install.sh | bash -s -- --no-autostart

Run the dock immediately with:

hyprland-dock --daemonize

Installed copies also appear as Hyprland Dock in application launchers. Selecting it safely starts or restarts the dock.

Manage autostart later from the CLI:

hyprland-dock autostart status
hyprland-dock autostart enable
hyprland-dock autostart disable

Run hyprland-dock help to see every available command.

If your Hyprland session does not process XDG autostart entries, add one of these manually:

-- Omarchy: ~/.config/hypr/autostart.lua
o.launch_on_start("hyprland-dock")

# Standard Hyprland: ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf
exec-once = hyprland-dock

Update or remove

hyprland-dock update
hyprland-dock restart
hyprland-dock uninstall

The older --update, --restart, and --uninstall forms remain supported. Uninstalling preserves the configuration; remove it too with hyprland-dock uninstall --purge.

Install as an Omarchy plugin

Omarchy Quattro users can run the dock inside the existing Omarchy shell instead of starting a second Quickshell process. If the standalone dock is already running, disable its autostart and stop it first:

hyprland-dock autostart disable
hyprland-dock stop

Then install and enable the plugin:

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/nick-friedrich/hyprland-dock.git --enable

The plugin uses the same ~/.config/hyprland-dock/dock.json configuration as the standalone version. On a plugin-only installation, create it from the bundled defaults:

mkdir -p ~/.config/hyprland-dock
cp ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/io.github.nick-friedrich.hyprland-dock/config/dock.json \
  ~/.config/hyprland-dock/dock.json

Update or remove the plugin with:

omarchy plugin update io.github.nick-friedrich.hyprland-dock
omarchy plugin remove io.github.nick-friedrich.hyprland-dock

Do not run the standalone and plugin versions together, or two docks will appear.

Development

Clone the repository and run directly from it:

./scripts/run

Quickshell watches the QML files, so UI changes reload while developing.

Configure

Installed copies use ~/.config/hyprland-dock/dock.json. When running from the repository, edit config/dock.json:

{
  "iconSize": 42,
  "magnification": 1.2,
  "magnificationRadius": 95,
  "margin": 10,
  "backgroundOpacity": 0.88,
  "position": "bottom",
  "fullLength": false,
  "reserveSpace": true,
  "autoHide": false,
  "clickAction": "focus-or-launch",
  "pinned": [
    "org.gnome.Nautilus",
    "com.mitchellh.ghostty",
    "chromium"
  ]
}

Options

Pinned values are desktop-entry filenames without the .desktop suffix. List available IDs with:

find /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications \
  -type f -name '*.desktop' 2>/dev/null \
  | sed 's#.*/##; s/\.desktop$//' | sort -u

The configuration file is watched and updates automatically. Drag a dock icon to another slot to reorder it; the new pinned order is written back to this file. When auto-hide is enabled, the dock overlays windows instead of reserving screen space.

For a full-height vertical dock on the left, use:

{
  "position": "left",
  "fullLength": true
}

Disable cursor warping

Hyprland controls whether the pointer moves when focus switches to a window on another workspace. This is compositor-wide behavior and cannot be reliably overridden by the dock.

On Omarchy, add this override to ~/.config/hypr/looknfeel.lua:

hl.config({
  cursor = {
    warp_on_change_workspace = 0,
  },
})

Hyprland normally reloads after the file is saved. Validate the configuration with:

hyprctl reload
hyprctl configerrors

This disables cursor warping for all workspace changes, not only dock clicks.

Roadmap

• Theme integration

License

MIT