hyprland-columns-plugin

A custom Hyprland tiled layout plugin that arranges all tiled windows as equal-width vertical columns so every window remains visible on screen.

Layout name

columns

Build

cd ~/src/hyprland-columns-plugin
make
make install

This installs the plugin to:

~/.local/lib/hyprland/libhyprcolumns.so

Load now

hyprctl plugin load ~/.local/lib/hyprland/libhyprcolumns.so

Use it on the current workspace

hyprctl keyword workspace "$(hyprctl activeworkspace -j | jq -r '.id'), layout:columns"

Persist across logins

Load it during Hyprland startup, e.g. from ~/.config/hypr/autostart.conf:

exec-once = hyprctl plugin load /home/wayfinderak/.local/lib/hyprland/libhyprcolumns.so

Behavior

• All tiled windows are shown at once.
• Each tiled window gets an equal-width column.
• Columns fill the workspace height.
• Left/right move and swap operations work naturally for the column order.
• Interactive resize is intentionally ignored to preserve equal columns.