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Hyprnux Login

A login screen with your accounts, a clock and a password field, in the look you choose.

You have to switch by hand from sddm (or gdm) to greetd: read the install steps first.

Install Read the docs

Package: hyprnux-login
License: MIT
Needs: systemd(the service manager)greetd(a login service)Hyprland 0.56 or later(the window manager)Quickshell 0.3 or later(the toolkit the login screen is drawn with)
Without the shell: Works on its own

The login screen as a glass card over the wallpaper: a clock, the accounts as round avatars, a password field and the power buttons. — Card style

The login screen in its lock-screen look: date and time at the top, the accounts and a password field in the middle, power buttons in the corners. — Lock style, like the lock screen

The login screen with a big clock at the top, the accounts and a password field low on the screen, and the sleep, restart and shut-down buttons with their names. — Big clock style

What it does

Sign in with a password

Choose your round picture, or type a name with Other…, then type your password. Sleep, restart and shut down are on the same screen.

You choose the look

Dark or light, accent color, a color or picture background, a logo, the clock and a message. You change it all on the Login page of Settings.

A text login as a fallback

If the graphical login fails to start twice in a row, a text login takes its place on the same screen. You can sign in there: your Hyprland session still starts, and the next login screen tries the graphical one again.

Why you would want it

Three system actions, no more

Before anyone signs in, the screen can only put the computer to sleep, restart it or shut it down. It never reads a user’s home folder.

Updates keep your session

An update never restarts the login service. The new version shows the next time the login screen starts.

After you install it

At the next start, the Hyprnux login screen shows your account.
Type your password and press Enter.
To change the look, open the Login page in the System category of Settings. It asks for an administrator password when you save.

Install it on its own

Before you start. systemd, greetd, Hyprland 0.56 or later and Quickshell 0.3 or later.

Packaged for pacman, on Arch Linux. Add the Hyprnux repository once first: Install Hyprnux. On another distribution, build it from its sources.

Install

sudo pacman -S hyprnux-login

Installing the package does not enable greetd. If greetd is already your login manager, it starts the Hyprnux login screen at its next start.

pacman installs greetd, Hyprland and Quickshell with the package. The Hyprnux shell is not required. Settings is a separate package: install it too for the Login page.

Switch the login manager (once)

This replaces your current login manager. Read the install guide first.

sudo systemctl disable sddm

sudo systemctl enable greetd

Replace sddm with gdm if that is the one you use. The change takes effect at the next boot, and the first text console moves to greetd.

Before you reboot

Under greetd only /etc/profile and ~/.profile are read at login: move settings kept in ~/.zshenv or ~/.zprofile to environment.d or to Hyprland’s environment. Set the system keyboard layout too, or the login screen is plain US.

Remove it

Enable another login manager first, or the machine starts to a text console. To go back to your previous login manager, enable sddm (or gdm) again and disable greetd, then reboot.

sudo pacman -Rns hyprnux-login

If something goes wrong, see the install guide.