darmanandClaude Opus 5
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The frame collapsed Hyprland's border gradient to m_colors.front(), so a gradient col.active_border showed up as a single flat color. Snapshot the gradient (stops + angle) into a new header-only ChromeGradient and fill the cairo path with a linear gradient built from it: - AxisFor() reproduces the border shader's quadrant-folding progress function (y*sin(a) + x*(1-sin(a)), not a true rotation) as a cairo axis, so the frame's sweep stays in step with the window border it wraps. Checked against a port of the shader across all 360 degrees: cardinal angles exact, worst case 0.003 of the sweep (the shader folds on literal 1.57/3.14/4.71 where this uses pi). - SampleAt() interpolates in OkLab, where the shader interpolates, with each segment subdivided into sampled cairo stops so cairo's own sRGB lerp tracks that curve. active_color/inactive_color become gradient config values, taking the same syntax as general:col.active_border. Single-color configs are unaffected. The cross-focus fade (m_realBorderColorPrevious + fade progress, lerped between two gradients in-shader) is still not reproduced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
hypr-chrome
A Hyprland plugin that draws a chamfered HUD-style border frame behind each window, expanded past the window's own edges, with a floating title bar hanging off the top-left corner. The frame's corners are chamfered by an amount inferred from the window's own border rounding, so the border peeking out around a rounded window's corners reads as a matching diagonal cut rather than a hard rectangular corner. Border color tracks Hyprland's own active/inactive border color live, gradients included.
Config
plugin {
hyprchrome {
enabled = true # bool
extent = 12 # int, px the border extends past the window edge
follow_hyprland_border_color = true # bool, use Hyprland's own active/inactive border color instead of active_color/inactive_color below
active_color = 0xFFD063FF # focused-window border color, used when follow_hyprland_border_color is false
inactive_color = 0xFF6C6C6C # unfocused-window border color, used when follow_hyprland_border_color is false
titlebar_height = 8 # int, px height of the floating title bar
titlebar_text_size = 12 # int, px font size of the title bar's text
titlebar_font = sans-serif # string, passed to cairo_select_font_face
}
}
active_color/inactive_color take the same syntax as Hyprland's own
general:col.active_border — a single color, or several plus an optional
angle for a gradient:
active_color = rgba(ff0000ff) rgba(00ff00ff) 45deg
Installing
hyprpm add https://git.mgaction.town/darman/hypr-chrome.git
hyprpm enable hypr-chrome
hyprpm builds the plugin from source against your own installed Hyprland,
using the build commands declared in hyprpm.toml (the same cmake
invocations as below).
NixOS
flake.nix exposes packages.x86_64-linux.default, built against
pkgs.hyprland from this flake's own nixpkgs input (with Hyprland's own
compiler/stdenv, for ABI correctness). Add this repo as a flake input and
set inputs.hypr-chrome.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs" (your own
system's nixpkgs input) so it's built against the exact Hyprland your
system runs - then add inputs.hypr-chrome.packages.${system}.default
directly to your wayland.windowManager.hyprland.plugins
(NixOS/home-manager) list. The package installs as lib/libhypr-chrome.so
(the lib<pname>.so convention that module derives its path from
automatically) even though the plain hyprctl/hyprpm path above uses
the unprefixed hypr-chrome.so.
Building
Requires the Hyprland headers/libs (hyprland, libdrm, libinput,
libudev, wayland-server, xkbcommon, pixman-1, cairo, etc.), ABI-locked
to the exact Hyprland build you'll load the plugin into. A pinned Nix flake
dev shell provides all of it:
nix develop
cmake -B build -S .
cmake --build build
This produces hypr-chrome.so at the repo root (not inside build/, so the
hyprctl/buildAndLoad.sh commands below can find it directly).
Developing
Load/reload the plugin into a running Hyprland session:
hyprctl plugin load "$(pwd)/hypr-chrome.so"
hyprctl plugin unload "$(pwd)/hypr-chrome.so"
buildAndLoad.sh chains build + reload for iteration. Hyprland's plugin
loader never fully unmaps a .so once dlopen'd, so reloading the same path
just re-serves the old (possibly stale) mapping — the script works around
this by copying each build to a uniquely-suffixed filename before loading it
and cleaning up prior copies. It hardcodes an absolute checkout path at the
top; check it matches your checkout before running it.